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| George Grant (1918-1988) |
How delighted that I've discovered a blog dedicated to the writings and insights of the great George Grant, a person I had the privilege of meeting and reading some Plato with in the 70s. I'd like to thank Chris Faiers for posting at his Riffs and Ripples from ZenRiver Garden blog an article on Grant by Ron Dart that led me eventually to Ron's The Owl: George Grant Journal blog.
Now begins what (I guarantee) will be a very long discussion about the social, political and philosophical issues dear to the heart of one of Canada's greatest public intellectuals and scholars.
5 comments:
Hi Conrad,
I'm pleased my Riffs & Ripps posting on George Grant resulted in you connecting with Ron Dart and his blog/journal on Grant.
Ron has written a lot of insightful essays on the Red Tory tradition in Canuck politics, history, culture & religion. A mutual friend of Ron & myself is author/philosopher Terry Barker.Terry is another documentarian of the Red Tory tradition, & you would likely find his books on Milton Acorn & the People's Poetry tradition VERY interesting. Terry has established firm grounds for including Milton Acorn as a Red Tory poet, something which surprises many of Milt's fans ; )
I'm looking forward to reading your personal essays & insights, esp. into the time you attended Grant's philosophy lectures at Mac.
you got me
going back into
the early 1960's
and my intro into
Plato et al
via Thelma Levine
at U. of Md.
will be neat (for me)
to discover & read
George Grant
& re:visit Plato.
Chris,
all I remember is sitting in a crowded room in the Philosophy building, at times spilling out into the corridor, trying to follow the pretty erudite but always charmingly engaging discussions that Grant's close readings of, say, a dialogue like the 'Republic' always produced. I also recall seeing some of the Philosophy teachers present.
Gadamer's talks were similar, with at times no more than a brief passage from, say, Aristotle's passage on 'friendship' in the Nichomachean Ethics forming the basis of discussion. Of course, I didn't take notes. I just wanted to take in the symposium-like atmosphere of the classes, always thrilled to be listening to someone who'd studied with Martin Heidegger.
God, how I loved those heady days in the 70s,,,
Ed,
didn't you tell me once about attending Derrida's lectures in grad school??
It was before I went to grad-school at Hopkins...
actually, before I graduated from Md. (1967).
actually, actually before I went to Greece, too.
a few of us who were "into" French philosophers/writers went over to Johns Hopkins for a
conference ... he was one of the presenters ..
it was all in French.... so, we hung around and listened
for awhile then went down into EAST BALTIMORE FOR CRABS & BEER.
I guess we were doing de:construction ?
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