More Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers (The CBC Massey Lectures) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088784801X ISBN 13: 9780887848018

Publisher: House of Anansi Press, 2008

Synopsis

A broadcasting fixture for more than 45 years and Canada’s preeminent public lecture series, the CBC's Massey Lectures feature provocative talks on pressing topics by major contemporary thinkers. Some of the series’ finest lectures have been lost for many years, unavailable to the public in any form until now. More Lost Massey Lectures presents recently rediscovered talks: Nobel Prize-winner Willy Brandt discusses the dangerous inequities between developing and industrialized nations while Barbara Ward explains the origin and predicament of underdeveloped countries and Frank Underhill speaks on the deficiencies of the Canadian constitution. George Grant's talk on the worsening predicament of the West through an examination of Friedrich Nietzsche is joined by Claude Levi-Strauss on the nature of myth and its role in human history. Not only of considerable historical significance, these lectures remain hugely relevant in the 21st century. Also included is an introduction by veteran CBC producer Bernie Lucht.

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Barbara Ward (1914-81), in later life Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer concerned with the economic and ideological background of contemporary world politics. After studying economics at Oxford University, she became a writer and editor at The Economist. She was an early advocate of sustainable development and was an influential advisor to policy-makers in the U.K., the U.S., the Vatican, the UN, and the World Bank. She wrote numerous articles and books on the worldwide threat of poverty among less-developed countries and the importance of conservation. Her prolific written contributions to the development debate include The International Share-Out, Defence of the West, Policy for the West, Faith and Freedom, Interplay of East and West, The Planet under Pressure, Nationalism and Ideology, Spaceship Earth, and Progress for a Small Planet (1979). Frank Underhill (1885-1971) was a Canadian historian, social critic, and political thinker. He studied at the University of Toronto and Oxford University. He taught at the University of Saskatchewan from 1914 to 1927, and from 1927 to 1995 he was a professor of History at the University of Toronto. He played a notable part in the political life of Canada as a founder of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and as a prominent member of the League for Social Reconstruction. His publications include In Search of Canadian Liberalism, a volume of essays for which he received the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1961. In 1967, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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 Empire, and Technology and Justice.

Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) was a French social anthropologist who became a leading scholar in the structural approach to social anthropology. Levi-Strauss was awarded the Wenner-Gren Foundation's Viking Fund Medal in 1966 and the Erasmus Prize in 1975. He was awarded several honorary doctorate degrees from prestigious institutions such as Oxford, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia. His books included A World on the Wane, Structural Anthropology, The Savage Mind, Anthropologu and Myth, and Look, Listen, Read. Willy Brandt (1913-92) was a German statesman, leader of the German Social Democratic Party from 1964 to 1987, and chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1971 for his efforts to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of the Soviet Bloc. His books include My Path to Berlin: An Autobiography, The Politics of Peace in Europe, Encounters and Insights 1960-75, Left and Free: My Path 1930-50, Organized Lunacy, and Memories. Bernie Lucht has been the executive producer of CBC Radio's Ideas and the Massey Lectures since 1984.

Edition details

• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 088784801X
• ISBN 13: 9780887848018
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 416