The CBC Massey Lecture Series

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The Massey Lectures are co-sponsored by Massey College, in the University of Toronto And CBC Radio (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).

The series was created in honor of the Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, former governor-general of Canada, and was inaugurated in 1961 to enable distinquished authorities to communicate the results of original study or research on omportant subjects of contemporary interest.

The books in this series comprise the Massey Lectures of each year. There is a difference between lectures and books in exposition style and that is relected here in these transcripts which is closer to a lecture than a standard text prose…..in the case of each of those I have read, I was rivited by the arguments of the author… whether in line with my own beliefs or preconceptions or not, all but one has proven, in its own way, to be one of the most thought provoking books I have ever read….. I am now actively seeking out the rest on the list. DHC Soul.

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    Designing Freedom (Massey Lectures series)
    by Stafford Beer

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    Real World of Technology (Massey Lectures Series.)
    by Ursula M. Franklin

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    The Unconscious Civilization
    by John Ralston Saul

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    Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
    by Richard C. Lewontin

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    A Short History Of Progress: 2004 Massey Lecture (Ideas)
    by Ronald Wright

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    The Rights Revolution (Massey Lectures series)
    by Michael Ignatieff

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    Beyond Fate (Massey Lectures) (Massey Lecutes)
    by Margaret Visser

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    The Cult of Efficiency (The Massey Lectures Series)
    by Janice Gross Stein

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    The Triumph of Narrative (Mossey Lecture Series)
    by Robert Fulford

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    Becoming Human
    by Jean Vanier

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    The Elsewhere Community (The Massey lectures series)
    by Hugh Kenner

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    On the Eve of the Millennium
    by Conor Cruise O'Brien

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    Democracy on Trial
    by Jean Bethke Elshtain

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    Twenty-first Century Capitalism
    by Robert Heilbroner

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    The Malaise of Modernity
    by Charles Taylor (ISBN: 0997845207)

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    Nostalgia for the Absolute (Massey Lectures)
    by George Steiner

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    The Real World of Democracy
    by Crawford B. Macpherson

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    The Educated Imagination
    by Northrop Frye

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Created by David Soul on Mar 23, 2006.
 

Comments

Christopher
Peterborough

Untitled — 2 years ago

Wikipedia told a lie, and the Toronto Star told the truth instead.


Christopher
Peterborough

Untitled — 2 years ago

Have you heard anything about this year’s lectures? Wikipedia says David Suzuki is going to be the speaker, but I can’t find any more information about them.