tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85961402024-03-17T20:03:40.929-07:00A P O C A L O O P S I Sambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-22396472579950769762011-10-06T01:32:00.001-07:002011-10-06T01:32:02.798-07:00<div class="gmail_quote">Mark Edmundson (he of the famous 1997 <a href="http://www.student.virginia.edu/%7Edecweb/lite/" target="_blank">Harper's essay</a> <i>On the Uses of a Liberal Education As Lite Entertainment For Bored College Students</i>) has a new like-minded piece out: <a href="http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2011/aug/22/who-are-you-and-what-are-you-doing-here/" target="_blank"><i>Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?</i></a> (Oxford American, The Education Issue,<span> Aug. 2011</span> - Issue: 74) </div><br> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-12220591241608077792009-11-21T03:13:00.001-08:002009-11-21T03:13:11.822-08:00<a href="http://www.booktv.org/Watch/10742/Writers+Life+Eva+Brann.aspx">Book TV visited with author and teacher Eva Brann</a> at her home in Annapolis, Maryland, to talk about her life and work. Ms. Brann, who has been a tutor at St. John's College since 1957, discussed her interest in the classics and talked about some of the philosophers her students read. (Original air date August 1, 2009)<br> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-57451339156915181372009-04-03T09:40:00.000-07:002009-04-03T09:47:09.449-07:00<a href="http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/090402/strauss.shtml">The University of Chicago Chronicle announces</a> that the late Leo Strauss, a political philosopher who is among the University’s most celebrated faculty members, will “teach again” when tapes and transcripts of his courses are digitized and collected on a Web site to be built by the newly founded Leo Strauss Center.<br /><br /><blockquote>“The National Endowment for the Humanities is supporting the publishing project with a $350,000 grant over two years. In addition to the grant, the center is raising funds for the project, which is expected to cost $1.3 million.<br /><br />This unpublished record refers in part to the audiotapes, transcripts and class notes of some 47 courses Strauss taught, most of them here at the University of Chicago,” said Stephen Gregory, Administrative Coordinator of the Leo Strauss Center, who will be managing the project.<br /><br />“We consider these to be an extraordinary resource for the study of Strauss’ thought, and, more generally, of political philosophy and the intellectual history of the 20th century,” said Nathan Tarcov, Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, who founded the Leo Strauss Center, the Web site of which will host the documents.</blockquote><br /><br />A demo of Strauss on Plato's <em>Meno</em> is available <a href="http://www.septaudio.com/demos-restor.html">here</a>.ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-23424541414749142302009-01-09T12:37:00.001-08:002009-01-09T12:37:13.311-08:00<div class="gmail_quote"> <div> <div></div> <div class="Wj3C7c"> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div><a href="http://limpnoodle-eie.blogspot.com/2009/01/fantasy-world-of-high-chat-hutchinsland.html">The Fantasy World of High Chat: Hutchinsland</a></div> <div> </div> <div></div> <div>Some enjoyably wry reflections on Robert M. Hutchins and the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions by Ed Engberg, Sr. Fellow Emeritus of the Center. </div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div><font face="Helvetica" size="3"> <font size="2">The Center in Santa Barbara, assumed a mission that cannot be defined more concisely than the Advancement of Everything Good. At one time or another, depending upon its finances, the immediate audience, or the condition of the world and the night vapors troubling it, the Center proposed itself as an "early warning system" that will alert us to each rise in the tide of "critical issues," and the flotsam to be found thereon; and as the sole locus of thought generated independently of the pressure of this world; it is the protector and civilizer of great conversation.... </font></font></div> <div><font face="Helvetica"></font> </div> <div><font face="Helvetica">...Hutchins struck [Lewis] Mumford as "tall, urbane, boyish looking: keen but supercilious , rational and outwardly reasonable, but shallow; an unawakened isolationist." "Aloof," the adjective often used by friendlier critics, fell short of capturing Hutchins look and bearing of pain, as if enduring some unheard noise, as if he were bearing his assigned mission nobly, but wished constantly that he might be released for less burdensome service.</font></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><br> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-79110238558175573652008-12-04T09:59:00.001-08:002008-12-04T10:06:08.979-08:00<div><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_4_classical_education.html">The Humanities Move Off Campus</a></div> <div>As the classical university unravels, students seek knowledge and know-how elsewhere.</div> <div> </div> <div>Victor Davis Hanson | City Journal - A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute</div> <br /><blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div><span class="copyStyle">Until recently, classical education served as the foundation of the wider liberal arts curriculum, which in turn defined the mission of the traditional university. Classical learning dedicated itself to turning out literate citizens who could read and write well, express themselves, and make sense of the confusion of the present by drawing on the wisdom of the past. Students grounded in the classics appreciated the history of their civilization and understood the rights and responsibilities of their unique citizenship. Universities, then, acted as cultural custodians, helping students understand our present values in the context of a 2,500-year tradition that began with the ancient Greeks.</div> <div> <p>But in recent decades, classical and traditional liberal arts education has begun to erode, and a variety of unexpected consequences have followed. The academic battle has now gone beyond the in-house "culture wars" of the 1980s. Though the argument over politically correct curricula, controversial faculty appointments, and the traditional mission of the university is ongoing, the university now finds itself being bypassed technologically, conceptually, and culturally, in ways both welcome and disturbing.</p> </div> . </blockquote> <div> </div>ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-33026445170491473272008-11-14T11:19:00.001-08:002008-11-14T11:19:41.203-08:00<div><a href="http://popecenter.org/news/article.html?id=2090">Why We Lost the Great Books</a></div> <div>Speaking in Charlotte, Notre Dame scholar Ralph McInerny discusses the classics and what went wrong.</div> <div>Jane Shaw, John William Pope Center For Higher Education Policy</div> <div>November 10, 2008</div> <div> </div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div><span class="copyStyle">Why do modern humanities professors hate the Western canon, the so-called Great Books that once defined a liberal arts education? Ralph McInerny, a professor of philosophy and medieval studies at Notre Dame University—and also the author of the popular Father Dowling mystery series—has an answer. </span></div> <div> </div> <div>It isn't just relativism (or, in McInerny's words, the idea that it's as important to teach <i>Tarzan</i> as <i>Hamlet</i>) or the claim that classical scholars push the works of "dead white males" in order to control society. The reason, says McInerny, is that most of the Great Books are "were written under Christian auspices." Their religious underpinning is obvious in the works of authors such as Dante, but also "inescapable" in those of Chaucer and Shakespeare. Furthermore, the non-Christian parts of the canon, such as those by Plato and Aristotle, were written under the assumption that providence, or a divine mind, governs human life. </div> <div> </div> <div>This is an idea that many modern academics cannot stand, said McInerny. </div> <div> </div> <div>McInerny shared his thoughts about Great Books at an evening lecture in Charlotte on November 6. His talk before an audience of about 100 people was sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Pope Center.</div> </blockquote> <div> </div> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-78003378430016268202008-11-07T08:29:00.001-08:002008-11-07T08:29:14.307-08:00<div><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/015/740pcklf.asp">Towering Ivories</a> </div> <div>Stanley Fish and his ideal of the American university. </div> <div>A review of Fish's <em>Save the World on Your Own Time</em></div> <div>by Peter Berkowitz </div> <div>Weekly Standard, 11/03/2008</div> <div> </div> <div>'Many people have as difficult a time hearing and giving due weight to the <i>liberal</i> in "liberal education" as they have in hearing and giving due weight to the <i>liberal</i> in "liberal democracy." But in both cases the adjective is critical: A liberal education is a specific form of education, one that fits individuals for freedom; and a liberal democracy is a specific form of popular government, one that protects individual freedom by limiting majority power.'</div> <div></div> <div> </div> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-57342304536394302082008-08-28T09:41:00.001-07:002008-08-28T09:41:04.500-07:00A lovely blog post that takes a look at, among other things, 'How to<br>Read a Book' by "a guy named Mortimer Adler."<p><a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/how-to-read/">http://www.copyblogger.com/how-to-read/</a>ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-50189285982518084362008-08-20T08:34:00.001-07:002008-08-28T11:20:29.879-07:00<div><a href="http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586484873">A Great Idea at the Time<br></a>The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of The Great Books</div> <div>Alex Beam</div> Public Affairs Books, Pub date: 11/03/08<br> <div>"Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial "dead white men," are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago, began as an educational movement, and evolved into a successful marketing idea. Why did a million American households buy books by Hippocrates and Nicomachus from door-to-door salesmen? And how and why did the great books fall out of fashion?"</div>ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-67741334547247638742008-08-15T14:46:00.001-07:002008-08-15T14:46:58.743-07:00<div><a href="http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/08/13/liberal-arts-education-oped-college08-cx_db_0813born.html">Learning How to Learn</a></div> <div>Forbes Opinion</div> <div>Daniel Born <span class="mainartdate">08.13.08, 6:00 PM ET</span></div> <div><span class="mainartdate"></span> </div> <div><span class="mainartdate">"To talk to freshmen about the liberal arts as an education for freedom (the Latin <em>liber,</em> as in "free") will strike many as absurd. Liberal arts requirements are the stuff most students try to 'get out of the way' as soon as possible, the grunt work one does prior to shopping for courses that hold real allure."</span></div> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-59644709607481383492008-07-30T10:18:00.001-07:002008-07-30T10:18:51.645-07:00<a href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=452772">The Burden of the Humanities</a><br>by Wilfred M. McClay <br><br>The Wilson Quarterly<br><br>. . .What does it mean to speak of the "burden" of the humanities? The phrase can be taken several ways. First, it can refer to the weight the humanities themselves have to bear, the things that they are supposed to accomplish on behalf of us, our nation, or our civilization. But it can also refer to the near opposite: the ways in which the humanities are a source of responsibility for us, and their recovery and cultivation and preservation our job, even our duty. <br> <br>Both of these senses of burden—the humanities as preceptor, and the humanities as task—need to be included in our sense of the problem. The humanities, rightly pursued and rightly ordered, can do things, and teach things, and preserve things, and illuminate things, which can be accomplished in no other way. It is the humanities that instruct us in the range and depth of human possibility, including our immense capacity for both goodness and depravity. It is the humanities that nourish and sustain our shared memories, and connect us with our civilization's past and with those who have come before us. It is the humanities that teach us how to ask what the good life is for us humans, and guide us in the search for civic ideals and institutions that will make the good life possible. <br> <br> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-82358826154502612772008-07-29T09:24:00.001-07:002008-07-29T09:24:35.273-07:00<div><a href="http://ucpress.typepad.com/ucpresslog/2008/07/racing-odysseus.html">Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again<br></a><br>"In 2004, Roger Martin, former Harvard dean and then President of Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, enrolled as a college freshman at St. John's College in Annapolis Maryland. When this undertaking captured the headlines of the national media, Dr. Martin appeared on NBC's Today Show and was interviewed by NPR's Scott Simon. His book, Racing Odysseus: A College President becomes a Freshman Again (UC Press, July 2008) now tells the whole story in a way that will be enjoyed by young and old alike."</div> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-39399882229909258532008-07-02T09:54:00.001-07:002008-07-02T09:56:29.304-07:00<a href="http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/542277/">English Faculty Take Great Books, Learning to Three Prisons<br></a><br>"Thanks to a recent partnership between Middle Tennessee State University, the Tennessee Department of Correction and the <a href="http://www.greatbooks.org/">Great Books Foundation</a>, a nonprofit educational organization, prisoners at three Nashville-area prisons recently had a chance to explore [what Longfellow called] 'the sweet serenity of books' by participating in a nine-week program titled Great Books in Middle Tennessee Prisons."<br> <br>ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-9558699221381304712008-06-04T14:33:00.001-07:002008-06-04T14:33:57.919-07:00<a href="http://www.thejohnfox.com/bookfox/2008/06/round-up.html">Bookfox</a> today blogs:<br><br><font color="#000000">'So the seventeen-year-old kid [Alec Niedenthal]</font><font color="#000000"> who wrote</font> a letter to the New York Times about making way for the new generation of authors, whom he described as "the young, challenging, Facebook-and-MySpace-addled minds that you have so hastily jettisoned as literary jetsam," has not only been interviewed by The New York Observer but contacted by Grove/Atlantic and HarperCollins requesting manuscripts. If only it was that easy for the rest of us to avoid the slush pile. Then again, I'm not a wunderkid who had read William Vollmann, William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Scott Snyder, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, and David Foster Wallace before graduating high school.'<br> <br>Bookfox via, in turn, <a href="http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2008/06/tuesday-margina.html">The Elegant Variation</a><br><br> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-88696374694916658002008-06-02T15:29:00.001-07:002008-06-02T15:29:08.743-07:00<div><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/college">In the Basement of the Ivory Tower</a><br> </div> <div>-The idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth. An [anonymous] instructor at a "college of last resort" explains why.<br> </div> <div>June 2008 Atlantic Monthly </div> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-35161618043895326302008-05-09T13:40:00.001-07:002008-05-09T13:42:14.797-07:00<div><a href="http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2008/04/from-catapults-to-cosmology.html">Richard Carrier</a> gives enthusiastic recommendations for three recent books* related to ancient science. <br><br>"These are the kinds of authors I wish I were, and strive to be. All three books are entirely approachable to laymen, yet all are advanced, cutting-edge works, and will be required reading for experts in their respective subjects for decades to come."</div> <div> </div> <div>* The Catapult: A History</div> <div> Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity</div> <div> Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity </div>ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-65288492533284431892008-05-08T10:47:00.001-07:002008-05-08T10:47:42.725-07:00<div><a href="http://adynaton.blogspot.com/2008/05/three-books-for-aspiring-language-guy.html">Three Books for the Aspiring Language Guy</a></div> <div>(via ADYNATON)</div> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-6762225967842691022008-05-07T08:49:00.001-07:002008-05-07T08:49:47.317-07:00<a href="http://unabgeschlossenheit.blogspot.com/2008/05/liberalism-vs-humanism.html">Liberalism vs. Humanism</a><br>by James Piereson<br>The New Criterion<br><br>On the battle between learning for the sake of learning and learning for utility.<br> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-79534391406520334912008-05-02T09:29:00.001-07:002008-05-02T09:29:10.286-07:00Charles Van Doren's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Joy-Reading-Favorite-Books-Essays/dp/0517555808/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209745660&sr=1-2"><em>The Joy of Reading</em></a> (subt. "210 Favorite Books, Plays, Poems, Essays, Etc - What's in Them, Why Read Them) is back in print, apparently as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Joy-Reading-Passionate-Worlds-Authors/dp/1402211600/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209745560&sr=1-1">a new edition</a> (subt. "A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works"). ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-37184405676267226412008-04-29T08:14:00.001-07:002008-04-29T08:14:21.210-07:00<a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/excat/ideasint.html">The Great Ideas: The University of Chicago and the Ideal of Liberal Education</a><br>An Exhibition in the<br>Department of Special Collections<br>The University of Chicago Library<br> May 1, 2002 - September 6, 2002<br><br> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-10770914705108081402008-04-26T06:52:00.001-07:002008-04-26T06:52:58.873-07:00<h2><font size="2"><a href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/adler_mortimer_t.html"><i>The Mike Wallace Interview</i></a><br>Mortimer Adler<br>9/7/58</font></h2> <p>Mortimer Adler, president of the Institute for Philosophical Research, former professor of the philosophy of law at the University of Chicago, and author of <i>The Idea of Freedom</i>, talks to Wallace about conceptions of freedom, capitalism, socialism, and the American worker.</p> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-9694453094245688202008-04-25T13:17:00.001-07:002008-04-25T13:26:37.006-07:00<div><a href="http://britannicanet.com/?p=28">Britannica Web Share</a> opens up The Encyclopaedia Britannica to "web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet". When you link to something, your readers get that article for free as well. So I'm testing it out here.</div> <div> </div> Perhaps you'd like to take a peek at the entry for, say, <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/634753/David-Foster-Wallace">David Foster Wallace</a>.ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-18167470209266895012008-04-16T10:07:00.000-07:002008-04-16T10:10:25.742-07:00The <strong><em>Invitation to Learning Reader</em></strong> series published the discussions of Great Books and significant ideas that were broadcast weekly on the CBS radio network in the early to mid 1950s.<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/invitationtolear002336mbp">Volume 1, No. 1 </a><br /><br />CONTENTS: <br /><br />Aeschylus, PROMETHEUS <br /><br />Shakespeare, HAMLET <br /><br />Sextus Empiricus, OUTLINES OF PYRRHONISM <br /><br />David Hume, AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDER- <br />STANDING<br /><br />Lucian, DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD <br /><br />Rabelais, GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL <br /><br />Aristotle, ETHICS<br /><br />John Stuart Mill, UTILITARIANISM <br /><br />Aristophanes, COMEDIES<br /><br />Moliere, COMEDIES <br /><br />Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS<br /><br />Calvin, INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 93 <br /><br />Virgil, THE AENEID<br />-------<br /><br />MEET THE PARTICIPANTS:<br /><br />LYMAN BRYSON, permanent chairman of Invitation To Learning, is a Professor of Education, at Teacher's College, Columbia University. <br /><br />STRINGFELLOW BARR, former President of St. John's College, author of the recent pamphlet, Let's Join The Human Race, and chairman of the original Invitation To Learning program, eleven years ago. <br /><br />GEORGE BOAS, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, and author of Wingless Pegasus. <br /><br />PALMER BOVIE, Instructor in English, Columbia University. <br /><br />JOHN MASON BROWN, Associate Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, author of Still Seeing Things and other works <br /><br />JOHN CARRADINE, Actor. <br /><br />IRWIN ED MAN, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, author of Philosopher s Quest and other works. <br /><br />BERGEN EVANS, Professor of English Literature, Northwestern University, and author of The Natural History of Nonsense. <br /><br />CLIFTON FADIMAN, Noted critic, editor, radio and television personality; member of the board of judges of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and a member of the Board of Directors of The Great Books Foundation. <br /><br />HIRAM HAYDN, editor for the Bobbs-Merrill Co., editor of The American Scholar, and author of The Counter-Renaissance. <br /><br />ROLPHE HUMPHRIES, poetry critic for The Nation, and author of a newly published translation of Virgil's Aeneid. <br /><br />LOUIS KRONENBERGER, Drama critic, Time Magazine. <br /><br />MAX LERNER, economist for the New York Post, Professor of American Civilization, Brandeis University, and author of Actions <br />and Passions. <br /><br />ANDRE MICHALOPOULOS, Counsellor to the Greek Embassy, noted lecturer and critic. <br /><br />WHITNEY J. GATES, Professor of Classics, Princeton University, and editor of The Basic Writings of St. Augustine. <br /><br />HOUSTON PETERSON, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, editor of Great Teachers, and a forthcoming Treasury of Great Speeches. <br /><br />JOHN E. SMITH, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University. <br /><br />CARL HERMAN VOSS, Lecturer, New School for Social Research. <br /><br />WILLIAM LINN WESTERMANN, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History, Columbia University. <br />============<br /><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/invitationtolear002182mbp">Vol. 5, No.1</a><br /><br />CONTENTS:<br /><br />Dickens, OLIVER TWIST <br /><br />Spinoza, ETHICS <br /><br />Twain, HUCKLEBERRY FINN <br /><br />Proust, REMEMBRANCES OF THINGS PAST <br /><br />Conrad, LORD JIM <br /><br />Dostoevsky, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT <br /><br />Whitman, LEAVES OF GRASS <br /><br />Meredith, THE ORDEAL OF RJCHARD FEVEREL <br /><br />Schopenhauer, THE WORLD AS WILL AND Idea <br /><br />Masters, THE SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY <br /><br />James, WHAT MAlSIE KNEW <br /><br />Juvenal, SATIRES <br /><br />Edwards, FREEDOM OF WILL <br />-------- <br /><br />MEET THE PARTICIPANTS:<br /><br />LYMAN BRYSON, Permanent Chairman of Invitation to Learning; Professor Emeritus of Education, Teachers' College, Columbia University; Counsellor on Public Affairs programming to the Columbia Broadcasting System. <br /><br />GAY WILSON ALLEN, Professor of American Literature at New York University; author of The Solitary Singer, a biography of Walt Whitman. <br /><br />DAVID DAICHES, Lecturer in English at Cambridge University. EDWARD DAVISON, Poet, critic, and Director of the School of General Studies at Hunter College. <br /><br />CLIFTON FADIMAN, Critic, literary essayist for Holiday, and author of Party of One. <br /><br />CLARENCE FAUST, President of the Fund for the Advancement of Education. <br /><br />CHARLES FRANKEL, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. <br /><br />MASON GROSS, Provost of Rutgers University. <br /><br />LEO GURKO, Chairman of the Department of English at Hunter College; author of Heroes, Highbrows and the Popular Mind. <br /><br />STUART HAMPSHIRE, Fellow of New College, Oxford University; author of Spinoza in the Pelican Philosophers series. <br /><br />GILBERT HIGHET, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University; author of People, Places and Books and Juvenal the Satirist. <br /><br />MILTON HINDUS, Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University; author of The Proustian Vision. <br /><br />EDGAR JOHNSON, Chairman of the English Department of the College of the City of New York; author of Charles Dickens, His Tragedy and Triumph. <br /><br />THOMAS H. JOHNSON, Chairman of the English Department at Lawrenceville School. <br /><br />ALFRED KAZIN, Nielsen Professor of Literature at Smith College; author of On Native Grounds and A Walker in the City. <br /><br />HELEN MAcINNES, Author of Above Suspicion and Pray for a Brave Heart. <br /><br />ANDRE MICHALOPOULOS, Critic and lecturer. <br /><br />MARY MOTHERSILL, Instructor in Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. <br /><br />JUSTIN O'BRIEN, Professor of French at Columbia University; translator of The Journals of Andre Gide and author of Portrait of Andre Gide. <br /><br />FRANK O'CONNOR, Author of The Short Stories of Frank O'Connor. <br /><br />VIRGILIA PETERSON, Author, lecturer and critic. <br /><br />GEORGE N. SHUSTER, President of Hunter College; author of Religion Behind the Iron Curtain. <br /><br />ERNEST J. SIMMONS, Professor of Russian Literature at Columbia University; author of Dostoevsky, the Making of a Novelist. <br /><br />JAMES THURBER, Humorist, cartoonist, and author of Thurber Country. <br /><br />LIONEL TRILLING, Professor of English at Columbia University. <br /><br />RAY B. WEST, JR., Professor of English at the University of Iowa; editor of The Western Revievj and author of The Short Story in America. <br /><br />DAN WICKENDEN, Author of The Running of the Deer.ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-60770299679015698382008-04-14T09:05:00.001-07:002008-04-14T09:05:47.061-07:00<div><a href="http://www2.nysun.com/article/74659?page_no=1">Columbia Professor Takes On Overhaul of Core Curriculum</a><br>By Sarah Garland<br>Staff Reporter of the Sun<br>April 14, 2008<br> </div> <div>Columbia University has taken the next step in its plan to add new multicultural classes to its core curriculum, the great books undergraduate program<br> </div> ambrose menschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16415052196450763715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596140.post-22176070169655223322008-04-08T15:29:00.001-07:002008-04-08T15:29:14.458-07:00Complete text of Robert M. 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