[PDF.47pp] A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books

A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books

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 | #1905206 in Books |  2009-10-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .70 x5.00 x8.00l,.62 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fun, irreverent|By RHagan|I interrupted reading David Denby's "Great Books" to read this and couldn't stop. I enjoyed looking at the cultural pressure of the time of my youth as if it were quaint rites of some isolated tribe. Now it's back to Denby. The two books complement one another well. As one who remembers the History of Western Civilization course required of me as a fre|From Publishers Weekly|Before the dawn of the television age, in an ambitious effort to enlighten the masses via door-to-door sales, Encyclopedia Britannica and the University of Chicago launched the Great Books of Western Civilization, "all fifty-four volumes o

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...

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