Technology and Empire
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Jun 1991
- Category
- Political, Social Aspects
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887845147
- Publish Date
- Jun 1991
- List Price
- $16.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487004576
- Publish Date
- Aug 2018
- List Price
- $16.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780887848766
- Publish Date
- Jun 1991
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
Brilliant and still-timely analysis of the implications of technology-driven globalization on everyday life from Canada’s most influential philosophers, reissued in a handsome A List edition, featuring an introduction by Andrew Potter.
Originally published in 1969, Technology and Empire offers a brilliant analysis of the implications of technology-driven globalization on everyday life. The author of Lament for a Nation, George Grant has been recognized as one of Canada’s most significant thinkers. In this sweeping essay collection, he reflects on the extent to which technology has shaped our modern culture.
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).
Editorial Reviews
An outstanding attempt to deal with the problem of North American values … Grant’s great and brooding presence dominates the book, a massive seer pointing out the aridity of the mainstream of Western intellectual life since Bacon.
Varsity Review
No Canadian has written with such a sweeping insight on this subject before. Grant’s is a moving plea, evocative, passionate, and deeply human. It sounds those hidden chords in all of us that could atheists religious and socialists conservative, and have them discover that against the common condition, their own divisions are insignificant.
Canadian Forum
All reviews of Grant’s writing use the adjective noble. It is apt. But the word for his new essays is audacious. They undertake a critique of America’s 400-year march to world empire measured by the things America has lost along the way. The reviewer can neither affirm nor deny Grant’s dark perceptions, only marvel at their power.
Maclean’s
To understand this agonized and grandly argued book is difficult; to do so is deeply disturbing, for its pessimism is reasoned and all but complete. But not to try to understand it is to shy away from an attempt to understand our times.
Globe and Mail
Other titles by George Grant
Technology and Justice
More Lost Massey Lectures
Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers
Lament for a Nation
The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism
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
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
Lament for a Nation
The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism
Nation of Rebels
Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture