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.

  1. 1.
    Designing Freedom (Massey Lectures series)
    by Stafford Beer
  2. 2.
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    Real World of Technology (Massey Lectures Series.)
    by Ursula M. Franklin
  3. 3.
    The Unconscious Civilization
    by John Ralston Saul
  4. 4.
    Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
    by Richard C. Lewontin
  5. 5.
    A Short History of Progress: 2004 Massey Lecture (Ideas)
    by Ronald Wright
  6. 6.
    The Rights Revolution (Massey Lectures series)
    by Michael Ignatieff
  7. 7.
    Race Against Time (CBC Massey Lectures Series)
    by Stephen Lewis
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    Beyond Fate (Massey Lectures) (CBC Massey Lecture)
    by Margaret Visser
  10. 10.
    The Cult of Efficiency (CBC Massey Lecture)
    by Janice Gross Stein
  11. 11.
    The Triumph of Narrative (Massey Lectures)
    by Robert Fulford
  12. 12.
    Becoming Human
    by Jean Vanier
  13. 13.
    The Elsewhere Community (The Massey lectures series)
    by Hugh Kenner
  14. 14.
    On the Eve of the Millennium
    by Conor Cruise O'Brien
  15. 15.
    Democracy On Trial
    by Jean Bethke Elshtain
  16. 16.
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    Twenty-first Century Capitalism
    by Robert Heilbroner
  17. 17.
    The Malaise of Modernity
    by Charles Taylor (ISBN: 0997845207)
  20. 20.
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    Nostalgia for the Absolute (Massey Lectures)
    by George Steiner
  22. 22.
    The Real World of Democracy
    by Crawford B. Macpherson
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  24. 24.
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    The Educated Imagination
    by Northrop Frye
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  27. 27.
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    THE RICH NATIONS AND THE POOR NATIONS
    by BARBARA WARD
  28. 28.
    The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit
    by Margaret Somerville
  30. 30.
    Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
    by Margaret Eleanor Atwood
  31. 31.
    Winter: Five Windows on the Season (CBC Massey Lecture)
    by Adam Gopnik
  32. 32.
    The City of Words (CBC Massey Lecture)
    by Alberto Manguel
  33. 33.
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    Globalism and the Nation-State
    by Eric Kierans
  34. 34.
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    Canadian cities and sovereignty association
    by Jane Jacobs
  35. 35.
    Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)
    by Douglas Coupland
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Created by David Soul on Mar 23, 2006.
 

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