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George Grant and Love: A Comment on Ian Box's “George Grant and the Embrace of Technology”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

William Christian
Affiliation:
University of Guelph

Abstract

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Comment/Commentaire
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1983

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References

1 The dark power of sexual love (Don Giovanni), love's transforming force (Cosi fan Tutte), its strength for social disruption but personal reconciliation (The Marriage of Figaro), its purifying, spiritual nature (The Magic Flute and the andante of the twenty-first piano concerto), and the love of God (especially in the Mass in C minor), all these in their shades and varieties were given incomparable expression in his music.

2 Compare, for example, the shift in the significance of love even in such a great work as Goethe's Faust. It is much more prominent in the first part written in the late eighteenth century than in the second, written some 30 years later.

3 Grant, George, preface to Scott Symons, Heritage (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971).Google ScholarPubMed

4 Grant, George, “Benjamin Disraeli: The Early Letters,” Globe and Mail, May 8, 1982.Google Scholar

5 Box, Ian, “George Grant and the Embrace of Technology,” this JOURNAL 15 (1982). 503-15.Google Scholar

6 Plato, Republic, 506D, my translation.

7 Grant, George, Lament for a Nation (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965), I.Google Scholar

8 Republic, 487BC.

9 Ibid., 358C, my translation.

10 Grant, George, Time as History (Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1969), 44.Google ScholarPubMed

11 Ibid., 24. (Emphasis added.)

12 Ibid., 44. Professor Box quotes the sentence just before this (“George Grant and the Embrace of Technology,” 513).

13 Grant, George, “Review of Outsiders,” Globe and Mail, October 16, 1982.Google Scholar

14 Ibid.

15 Preface to Symons' Heritage.

16 Lament for a Nation, 3.

17 Preface to Symons' Heritage.

18 Grant, George, English-Speaking Justice (Sackville, N.B.: Mount Allison University, 1974), I. (Emphasis added.)Google Scholar

19 Quoted in Taylor, Charles, Radical Tories: The Conservative Tradition in Canada (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1982), 155.Google Scholar

20 Ibid., 156.

21 Plato, Symposium, 203BC.