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WhatS So Great About The Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You)
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A Popular Novelist And Literary Blogger Answers Those Who Claim The Classics Are Too Difficult, Too Problematic, And Too WhiteAnd Explains What We Gain By Reading Themwhen She Was In Her Early Twenties, ThenAspiring Writer Naomi Kanakia Set Out To Read The Great BooksHumankindS Most Highly Regarded Literary Classics, Representing The Best That Human Beings Have Thought Or Said, As Determined By The Two Elderly Intellectuals WhoD Written The Guidebook She Consulted. After Twenty Years, She Has Made Her Way Through About TwoThirds Of These Books, And SheS Found Reading Them To Be An Immensely Pleasurable And Insightful Activity. Plato, Milton, Tolstoy, Proust, All Those Dead GuysTheir Books Have Stood The Test Of Time.But Since Beginning Her Journey, Kanakia Has Found That Although Reading The Great Books Is Part Of A Longstanding Tradition Of Engaging With The Thought Of Previous Generations, It Is Also A Highly Contingent Activity That Arose Out Of A Specific Time And Place, The Brainchild Of A Small Group Of Early TwentiethCentury Popularizers Associated With Columbia University And The University Of Chicago. And People Have Always Been Skeptical About The Idea Of Reading The Great Books, Asking If This Is Truly A Realistic Or Even Desirable Goal For The Ordinary Person. A More Recent And Growing Group Of Great Books Skeptics Asks If These Works Are Too Problematic, Reactionary, And Irrelevant To Bother Reading. Kanakia, A SelfDescribed LeftOfCenter Person, Grapples With These Objections, Attempting To Restore Context For The Great Books Even As She Sticks Up For Them. Because Books That Expose Us To Fundamental Truths About The Nature Of Beauty And Reality Are Worth Fighting For.
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