George Grant and the Forgetfulness of Modernity (Travis O’Brian)

George Grant died in 1988.  He was a Canadian thinker deeply engaged in the question of how technology shapes modern consciousness, meaning the ways modernity shapes our thinking, what modernity makes it both possible and impossible to think.  In his short, profound essay, "A Platitude," Grant helps us to ask, 'what has modern consciousness led us to forget about what it means to be human?'  'How has modernity so shaped our thinking that it is now impossible to answer this question, or any question implying transcendent meaning?'  And most pressing: 'how is it possible to remember what has been forgotten?' 

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