What's So Great About Great-Books Courses?
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Last updated 17 Jul 2024
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The humanities are in danger, but humanists can’t agree on how—or why—they should be saved. Louis Menand on Roosevelt Montás’s “Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation” and Arnold Weinstein’s “The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing.”
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Academia The New Yorker
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Classics The New Yorker
David St. Louis (@DavidERStLouis) / X
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Humanities The New Yorker
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Study the Great Books with TPS! - TPS – The Potter's School
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Great Books Program
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The Great Courses: books, biography, latest update
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The Surprising Ways Students Relate to the Classics
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Ep. 18: Javier García del Moral by Translating the World with Rainer Schulte
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