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Canadian Intellectuals, the Tory Tradition, and the Challenge of Modernity, 1939-1970 (Paperback)
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Canadian Intellectuals, the Tory Tradition, and the Challenge of Modernity, 1939-1970 (Paperback)
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In this well-researched book, Philip Massolin takes a fascinating
look at the forces of modernization that swept through English
Canada, beginning at the turn of the twentieth century. Victorian
values - agrarian, religious - and the adherence to a rigid set of
philosophical and moral codes were being replaced with those
intrinsic to the modern age: industrial, secular, scientific, and
anti-intellectual. This work analyses the development of a modern
consciousness through the eyes of the most fervent critics of
modernity - adherents to the moral and value systems associated
with Canada's tory tradition. The work and thought of social and
moral critics Harold Innis, Donald Creighton, Vincent Massey, Hilda
Neatby, George P. Grant, W.L. Morton, Northrop Frye, and Marshall
McLuhan are considered for their views of modernization and for
their strong opinions on the nature and implications of the modern
age. These scholars shared concerns over the dire effects of
modernity and the need to attune Canadians to the realities of the
modern age. Whereas most Canadians were oblivious to the effects of
modernization, these critics perceived something ominous: far from
being a sign of true progress, modernization was a blight on
cultural development. In spite of the efforts of these critics,
Canada emerged as a fully modern nation by the 1970s. Because of
the triumph of modernity, the toryism that the critics advocated
ceased to be a defining feature of the nation's life.
Modernization, in short, contributed to the passing of an
intellectual tradition centuries in the making and rapidly led to
the ideological underpinnings of today's modern Canada.
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