"These writings centre around the modern paradigm of 'knowledge': behaviorist explanation in terms of algebra. This account is at the core of the fate of western civilisation. Because the conquest of human and non-human nature is at the heart of modern science, I describe that science as 'technological'." -- Preface.
Contents: Preface dated August 1986 / George Grant -- Thinking About Technology -- Faith and the Multiversity -- Nietzsche and the Ancients : Philosophy and Scholarship -- Research in the Humanities -- The Language of Euthanasia / with Sheila Grant -- Abortion and Rights / with Sheila Grant -- Notes -- Acknowledgements.