We meet people like John Erskine, the grandfather of the Great Books movement and a “gentleman of the old school,” as Beam describes him. Erskine believed a great book was one that “has meaning, and ...
Most of the terms in which the ongoing debate over the “Great Books” is carried on aren’t helpful. Calling people white supremacists for wanting students to read Kant, writing substance-free encomia ...
Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás will share his life journey to highlight the continued relevance of the “Great Books” by writers such as Plato, Augustine, Freud and Gandhi and a ...