George Grant

George Parkin Grant (Known as "George Grant")

Philosopher, Author of Lament for a Nation and Technology and Empire

Born Nov 13, 1918

Toronto, Canada

Passed Away Sep 27, 1988 Halifax (Nova Scotia), Canada

Lifespan 69 years old

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"To lament is to remember that which was good and to mourn its passing into the machinery of progress."

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Philosopher and public intellectual whose 1965 masterpiece Lament for a Nation argued that American corporate capitalism and universal technology were extinguishing Canada's sovereign existence.

Biographical Record

Educated at Queen's and Oxford, Grant taught religion and philosophy at McMaster and Dalhousie. In 1965, he published Lament for a Nation, a passionate philosophical meditation on the defeat of John Diefenbaker's nationalist government that sold 100,000 copies and catalyzed the Canadian nationalist revival.

In Technology and Empire (1969) and Time as History, Grant examined how modern technological rationality eroded traditional moral limits and human freedom, establishing himself as Canada's most influential indigenous conservative-communitarian thinker.

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Camp Hill Cemetery
Halifax (Nova Scotia), Canada

                         GPS: 44.6444, -63.5861                    

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