[MD] Great Books...

[MarshaV]

At 01:58 AM 1/16/2009, you wrote:
>I like it Marsha, Bob would like it too.

And I can't help it, the possibility pleases me...





>QUOTE
>"Led by the "intellectual Mutt 'n' Jeff act" of former University of
>Chicago president Robert Hutchins and his sidekick Mortimer Adler.
>UNQUOTE
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>Been following a "Chicago thread" for some time Saul Bellow most
>recently, after Rorty and Pirsig naturally ... must have been
>something in the Lake Michigan water methinks.
>Regards
>Ian
>
>On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> > This may be of interest.  Ignore it if it isn't.
> >
> > Book:  A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of
> > the Great Books (Hardcover)
> >
> > From Publishers Weekly
> > Before the dawn of the television age, in an ambitious effort to enlighten
> > the masses via door-to-door sales, Encyclopedia Britannica and the
> > University of Chicago launched the Great Books of Western 
> Civilization, "all
> > fifty-four volumes of them... purporting to encompass all of Western
> > knowledge from Homer to Freud." Led by the "intellectual Mutt 'n' Jeff act"
> > of former University of Chicago president Robert Hutchins and his sidekick
> > Mortimer Adler, the Great Books briefly, and improbably, caught 
> the nation's
> > imagination. In his discussion, Boston Globe columnist Beam looks 
> at how and
> > why this multi-year project took shape, what it managed to accomplish (or
> > not), and the lasting effects it had on college curricula (in the familiar
> > form of Dead White Males). Beam (Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside
> > America's Premier Mental Hospital) describes meetings endured by the
> > selection committee, and countless debates over Euripedes, Herodotus,
> > Shakespeare, Melville, Dickens and Whitman ("When it comes to Great Books,
> > no one is without an opinion."), but tells it like it is regarding the
> > Syntopicon they devised-at "3,000 subtopics and 163,000 separate entries,
> > not exactly a user-friendly compendium"-and the resulting volumes, labeling
> > them "icons of unreadability-32,000 pages of tiny, double-column,
> > eye-straining type." By lauding the intent and intelligently critiquing the
> > outcome, Beam offers an insightful, accessible and fair narrative on the
> > Great Books, its time, and its surprisingly significant legacy.
> >
> >
> > 
> http://www.amazon.com/Great-Idea-Time-Curious-Afterlife/dp/1586484877/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232037930&sr=1-1
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> > of all the others in a fantastic, interrelated harmony without end.
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