Kirkus: "Denby's courage pays off: His thick description of what learning and teaching the great books actually means to us today puts to shame the facile speculation that has heretofore dominated culture-wars journalism. When Denby puts himself on the line as a student and as a person by actually READING the classics, his audacious humility amounts to a kind of greatness of soul. In important ways, this is one of the very few truly GOOD books on the culture wars."
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Format: Audio - Audio Cassette Publisher: Audio Literature (March 01, 1998) Measurements: 7"(h) x 7"(w) x 1.25"(d), 0.65 lbs. ISBN: 9781574531794
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A student's view of academic life, written by a middle-aged journalist who decided to return to college for a year and re-read the same books he had first encountered in the same course thirty years earlier. Denby had first taken "Contemporary Civilization," Columbia's legendary survey class of Western philosophy in 1961. Many years later, intrigued by the ferocity of the "culture wars" he had seen debated in the press, he decided to sit in on two semesters of Contemporary Civilization and record his--and his classmates'--impressions to the great works of Western philosophy and their effect on present-day minds and sensibilities.
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