In Time as History, a collection of his 1969 Massey lectures, George Grant reviews the thought of Nietzsche and concludes that the conception of time as history is not one in which it is possible to live a fully human life. Grant was the first Canadian philosopher to pay serious attention to the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, and his analysis of the German philosopher forms the central focus of the lectures.

William Christian has restored material from the broadcast version of the lectures. His introduction places Grant's interest in Nietzsche in the perspective of Grant's developing analysis of technology and draws extensively on Grant's unpublished notebooks and lectures.

William Christian has restored material from the broadcast version of the lectures. His introduction places Grant's interest in Nietzsche in the perspective of Grant's developing analysis of technology and draws extensively on Grant's unpublished notebooks and lectures.

  • Imprint: University of Toronto Press
  • Published: July 1995
  • Pages: 82

William Christian is a professor emeritus of the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. He is author of George Grant: A Biography and editor of George Grant: Selected Letters, both published by the University of Toronto Press.

Chapters

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Editor’s Introduction: George Grant’s Nietzsche
Note on the Text
Acknowledgments
1 Time as an Historical Process
2 Temporality and Technological Man
3 Nietzsche and Time as History
4 Nietzsche: Revenge and Redemption
5 Time as Mastery
Appendix Dialogue on the Death of God with Dr Charles Malik

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