More Lost Massey Lectures Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

by Lucht, Bernie

• ISBN13: 9780887848018
• ISBN10: 088784801X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press

Summary

The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years unavailable to the public in any form.This is the second volume of recovered lectures, a follow-on to The Lost Massey Lectures, and features: Nobel Peace Prize recipient Willy Brandt on the dangerous inequities between developing and industrialized nations in Dangers and Options: The Matter of World Survival; George Grant on the worsening predicament of the West through an examination of the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche in Time as History; Claude Levi-Strauss on the nature and role of myth in human history in Myth and Meaning; Frank Underhill on the deficiencies of the Canadian constitution in The Image of Confederation; and Barbara Ward, in the very first Massey Lecture, on the origin and predicament of underdeveloped countries in The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations.More Lost Massey Lectures includes an introduction by Bernie Lucht, who has been the executive producer of CBC Radio's Ideas and the Massey Lectures since 1984.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations
Originations	p. 3
The Poor Nations	p. 22
Communism's Blueprint	p. 42
The Economics of Development	p. 61
The Politics of Development	p. 81
Not By Bread Alone	p. 102
The Image of Confederation
The New Nationality	p. 123
The First Fine Careless Rapture	p. 137
History Against Geography	p. 150
Canada's Relations with Britain	p. 164
French-English Relations in Canada	p. 179
Conclusions	p. 194
Time as History
Chapter One	p. 211
Chapter Two	p. 221
Chapter Three	p. 234
Chapter Four	p. 247
Chapter Five	p. 262
Myth and Meaning
Introduction	p. 275
The Meeting of Myth and Science	p. 277
"Primitive" Thinking and the "Civilized" Mind	p. 285
Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth	p. 293
When Myth Becomes History	p. 300
Myth and Music	p. 308
Dangers & Options: The Matter of World Survival
Foreword	p. 319
Dangers and Options	p. 321
Survival	p. 331
Development and Disarmament	p. 346
Our Own Interest	p. 356
Summitry	p. 367
Further Reading	p. 385
About the Lectures and Lecturers	p. 395
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