
Lament for a Nation
The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2005
- Category
- Political
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773582163
- Publish Date
- Nov 2005
- List Price
- $19.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773530102
- Publish Date
- Nov 2005
- List Price
- $19.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773530027
- Publish Date
- Nov 2005
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
Canadians have relatively few binding national myths, but one of the most pervasive and enduring is the conviction that the country is doomed. In 1965 George Grant passionately defended Canadian identity by asking fundamental questions about the meaning and future of Canada’s political existence. In Lament for a Nation he argued that Canada – immense and underpopulated, defined in part by the border, history, and culture it shares with the United States, and torn by conflicting loyalties to Britain, Quebec, and America – had ceased to exist as a sovereign state. Lament for a Nation became the seminal work in Canadian political thought and Grant became known as the father of Canadian nationalism.
This edition includes a major introduction by Andrew Potter that explores Grant’s arguments in the context of changes in ethnic diversity, free trade, globalization, post-modernism, and 9/11. Potter discusses the shifting uses of the terms “liberal” and “conservative” and closes with a look at the current state of Canadian nationalism.
About the authors
George Grant (1918-88) has been acknowledged as Canada's leading political philosopher. He taught religion and philosophy at McMaster University and Dalhousie University. His books include Philosophy in the Mass Age, Lament for a Nation, English-Speaking Justice, Technology and Justice and Technology and Empire.
Andrew Potter is the coauthor of the international bestseller Nation of Rebels. A journalist, writer, and teacher, he lives in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter (@jandrewpotter).
Other titles by George Grant

Technology and Justice

More Lost Massey Lectures
Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

Collected Works of George Grant
Volume 1 (1933-1950)

English-Speaking Justice
The George Grant Reader

George Grant
Selected Letters

Time as History

Philosophy in the Mass Age

Technology and Empire
The Liberal Idea of Canada
Pierre Trudeau and the Question of Canada's Survival
Other titles by Andrew Potter

On Decline
Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever

Policy Transformation in Canada
Is the Past Prologue?

High Time
The Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada

Should We Change How We Vote?
Evaluating Canada's Electoral System

The Authenticity Hoax
How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves

Rebel Sell
Why The Culture Can't Be Jammed

Nation of Rebels
Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
