Great Books
eBook - ePub

Great Books

Everyone's Inheritance

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Great Books

Everyone's Inheritance

About this book

Just over 100 years ago Columbia's John Erskine started a General Honors program that was the precursor of the Great Books programs popularized by his student, Mortimer Adler. As a set term "Great Books" has elicited more than some controversy, especially because most relatively short lists of such works mostly features "dead white men". However, most any group in America has made the Great Ideas their own. This book explores the benefits of reading "Great Books," and is virtually unique in detailing what a series of Great Books classes has looked like over the past decades.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 A Brief History
  11. 2 The Great Books Curriculum: Context and Content
  12. 3 The Great Books Curriculum: Skills
  13. 4 The Great Books Curriculum: Methodology
  14. 5 The Great Books Curriculum: Evaluation
  15. 6 Issues and Controversies
  16. 7 The Benefits
  17. 8 Limitations and Potential Downsides
  18. 9 This Book’s Underlying Assumptions
  19. 10 Conclusions
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Appendix
  23. Index