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Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
(Hardcover, 1996)
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Author: David Denby
A student's view of academic life, written by a middle-aged journalist who decided to return to coll...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0684809753
ISBN-13: 9780684809755
Sep 1996
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
492 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
A student's view of academic life, written by a middle-aged journalist who decided to return to college for a year and re-read the same books he had first encountered in the same course thirty years earlier. Denby had first taken "Contemporary Civilization," Columbia's legendary survey class of Western philosophy in 1961. Many years later, intrigued by the ferocity of the "culture wars" he had seen debated in the press, he decided to sit in on two semesters of Contemporary Civilization and record his--and his classmates'--impressions to the great works of Western philosophy and their effect on present-day minds and sensibilities.
| Size | | Length: | 492 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 28.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"The reader is left with a sense of optimism regarding the future of the humanities and conviction that, fine film critic as he may be, David Denby seems to have missed his true vocation: a professional involvement in the teaching and transmission of literary 'greatness.'"
New York Times Book Review - Joyce Carol Oates
"Denby chose the right descriptions. His book is naive, amateurish and a folly. the author's 'adventures' among masterpieces suggests that one is more impermeable at the age of 48 than at the age of 18. Try as he may to suggest that he growing and changing as he encounters the Great Books, his account suggests a man coming into the field with his mind made up."
New Republic - Helen Vendler (10/07/1996)
"Denby's courage pays off: His thick description of what learning and teaching the great books actually means to us today puts to shame the facile speculation that has heretofore dominated culture-wars journalism. When Denby puts himself on the line as a student and as a person by actually READING the classics, his audacious humility amounts to a kind of greatness of soul. In important ways, this is one of the very few truly GOOD books on the culture wars."
Kazin
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