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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.

Author Biography:

Barbara Ward was a British economist and writer. She wrote numerous articles and books on the worldwide threat of poverty among less-developed countries and the importance of conservation. Frank Underhill (1885-1971) was a Canadian historian, social critic, and political thinker. George Grant (1918-88) has been acknowledged as Canada's leading political philosopher. Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) was a French social anthropologist who became a leading scholar in the structural approach to social anthropology. 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. Bernie Lucht has been the executive producer of CBC Radio's Ideas and the Massey Lectures since 1984.
Release date NZ
November 6th, 2008
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributor
  • Introduction by Bernie Lucht
Pages
416
Dimensions
132x198x25
ISBN-13
9780887848018
Product ID
3697403

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