[lbo-talk] Essential Reading - Hah!

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Sat Feb 4 06:49:20 PST 2012


On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 15:37:08 +0200 Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> As many histories have pointed out, as late as the mid-18th-c it was
> widely
> > assumed that a list of books existed which all "educated men"
> shared in
> > common.
>
>
> How does this differ from the "great books" concept, which arose in
> the
> United States in the 1920s and 30s?

R obert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler were among the leading advocates of that, and they had a rather specific agenda behind this which was based on Adler's neo-Thomism.


>
>
> > Anyone who has not read Wellek, Frye, & Tamas is of course not
> competent to
> > engage in this discussion.
>
>
> Maybe not, but try and stop me!

Anyone who has not read Farmelant is not competent to engage in ANY discussion on this list.

Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math


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