Moving images of eternity : George Grant's critique of time, teaching, and technology /

Moving images of eternity : George Grant's critique of time, teaching, and technology / William F. Pinar.

"While there are studies of Grant's political philosophy and theology, there is no sustained study of his teaching, and specifically its inextricable relation to his political philosophy and theology. No study to date has drawn extensively on the collected works--including his talks to tea...

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Main Author: Pinar, William F. (Author)
Other title:George Grant's critique of time, teaching, and technology.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2019.
Series:Education (University of Ottawa)
Subjects:
Grant, George Parkin, > 1918-1988.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction. A progressive Christian platonist
  • Subjective presence
  • This book
  • Reactivation
  • Notes
  • Chapter 1: Why? Reactivation
  • Reconstruction
  • Moving images
  • Teaching
  • Becoming historical
  • Progressivism
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 2: Technology. Our civilizational destiny
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: Time. Lament for a nation
  • Grant's lament
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4: Teaching. Reactivating the past in the present
  • Complicated conversation
  • Curriculum and teaching
  • What knowledge is of most worth?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: Idolatry. Idolatry
  • The gap
  • Iconography
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: Attunement. Quietude
  • Listening
  • Transcendence
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7: Eternity. Reactivation
  • Time
  • The perpetuity of the past
  • Eternity in time
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue. Politics
  • Freedom
  • Teaching
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Earlier versions and permission to quote
  • Index.

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