A Canadian visionary: a new book digs into the influences on Grant's thought.(George Grant: A Guide to His Thought)(Book review)

From: Literary Review of Canada | Date: December 1, 2007| Author: Porter, J.S. | Copyright information

George Grant: A Guide to His Thought Hugh Donald Forbes University of Toronto Press 301 pages ISBN 9780802043184, hardcover ISBN 9780802081421, softcover

George Grant is our William Blake, a visionary in prose rather than poetry, a thinker who sees more than he can say, who speaks in notes, asides and intimations. Despite their philosophic differences, Grant, like Blake, sees and opposes technology's invasion of the mind, and its consequent reshaping of society and langu...

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