Richard M. Weaver (IR 2:1, September 1965) - 05/09/08
How to Read the Declaration: Reconsidering the Kendall Thesis
M. E. Bradford (IR 28:1, Fall 1992) - 05/08/08
Leo Strauss, George Grant, and Historicism
Gregory S. Butler (IR 31:1, Fall 1995) - 05/07/08
Hrm, so George Grant is a "Straussian"--interesting.
If this is an accurate representation of Grant's thought, then I think it's an overly optimistic understanding of modernity and its relationship to God (if we accept that there is such a phenomena as modernity, which is somehow different from the sinfulness of man).
In conclusion, Grant holds on to the possibility that a rejection of modernity may take place in the very historical act of living in it and through it. Unlike doctrinaire followers of Straussian orthodoxy, Grant holds out the possibility of loving the very darkness of modernity, because it may very well be the means by which divine Providence itself is working to cast a light back on the truth of the past. For this reason his writings do not rely heavily on a rationalist appeal through dialectics; they involve an almost obsessive probing of the tragedy and darkness of the modern “cave.” As a Christian, Grant is able to see in the mysterious, unplanned workings of history a revelatory force capable of drawing man back into God, a force that (ironically) becomes present at the moment when modernity has reached its apex.
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George Parkin Grant
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