A P O C A L O O P S I S
August 22, 2006
Appreciated seeing this
editorial in the Seattle Times
on the value of a liberal education.
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Liberal education, "the great books" (the Western canon), contemporary literary fiction, and some philosophy stuff. An idiosyncratic slice of "the humanities."
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ambrose mensch
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Been clicking around recently in:
Cafe Third Edition
Center for the Study of the Great Ideas
History and Education: Past and Present
Knight's Castle
Kottke.org
Matt Bucher
Noam Chomsky
Richard Carrier
Two Masters
Liberal Education Linkfarm
Center for the Study of the Great Ideas
The Great Books Foundation
Teaching Great Books
Malaspina Great Books (online texts)
National Great Books Curriculum
St. John's College
Philosophy of Liberal Education (Bibliography and links)
Friends of the University of Chicago (inactive; via web archive)
Great Books of the Western World (online texts)
Great Books and Classics (online texts)
The Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults (The University of Chicage Graham School of General Studies)
Touchstones Discussion Project
The Paideia Group, Inc.
The National Paideia Center
The Great Books Academy
Classical Homeschooling Magazine
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Colleges with Great Books Programs
Literary Blogroll
Arts & Letters Daily
Bookslut
Ed Champion
Conversational Reading
Counter Balance
Elegant Variation
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Paris Review
The Quarterly Conversation
The Reading Experience
Author Sites (Philosophy)
Mortimer J. Adler (Center for the Study of The Great Ideas)
Mortimer J. Adler Archives (Radical Academy)
Walter Kaufmann
The Four Musketeers (Horsemen?)
Richard Dawkins
Daniel Dennett
Sam Harris
Christopher Hitchens
Fab Fictioneers
David Foster Wallace
And but so...(more Wallacestuff [archived, no longer active])
John Barth
George Saunders
Donald Barthelme
Frederick Barthelme
William T.Vollmann
Literary Audio
Lannan
Bookworm
Author Interviews by Don Swaim
The Paris Review Author Interviews
Barnes and Noble "Meet the Writers"
Resources
Bartleby.com
Bookfinder.com
Fetchbook.info
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