Canadian intellectuals, the Tory tradition and the challenge of modernity, 1939-1970
By: Philip Massolin.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Conservatism -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; Canada -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Canada -- Civilization -- 1945-
Description: "In this study, Philip Massolin looks at the forces of modernization that transformed Canada in the last century, and the intellectual conservatives who opposed them. At the turn of the twentieth century, Victorian society - agrarian, religious, characterized by a rigid set of philosophical and moral codes - began to give way to the modern age - industrial, secular, scientific, and anti-philosophical.

Massolin analyses the development of a modern consciousness through the eyes of some of the most fervent critics of modernity - adherents to the value systems associated with Canada's tory tradition. These critics include Harold Innis, Donald Creighton, Vincent Massey, Hilda Neatby, George P. Grant, W. L. Morton, Northrop Frye, and Marshall McLuhan, and their works are considered here for their strong views on the nature and implications of the modern age."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Science and technique : the critique of the technological consciousness; title: The modernization of higher learning in Canada I; title: The modernization of higher learning in Canada II : academia after the war; title: Battling the Philistines : the quest for culture in post-war Canada; title: The world we have lost : conservatism and the revolutionary world; title: Epilogue : the demise of the conservative-nationalist vision and the triumph of modernity.