Great Books

Name: Great Books
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ISBN: 9780684835334

ISBN-10: 0684835339

ISBN-13: 9780684835334

Edition: 1997

Authors: David Denby

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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the "great books" -- that are now at the heart of the culture wars. InGreat Books,he leads us on a glorious tour, a rediscovery and celebration of such authors as Homer and Boccaccio, Locke and Nietzsche. Conrad and Woolf. The resulting personal odyssey is an engaging blend of self-discovery, cultural commentary, reporting, criticism, and autobiography -- an inspiration for anyone in love with the written word.

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 9/25/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.232

David Denby has been film critic and staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998; prior to that he was film critic of New York magazine. His reviews and essays have also appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City.



Introduction


Reading Lists


First Semester



Homer I



Sappho






Plato I



Homer II






Plato II



Sophocles



Aristotle






Aeschylus and Euripides






Virgil



The Old Testament



The New Testament



Augustine



Machiavelli






Hobbes and Locke



ExaminationWinter Break


Second Semester



Dante



Boccaccio



Hume and Kant






Montaigne



Rousseau



Shakespeare



Hegel



Austen



Marx and Mill



Nietzsche






Beauvoir



Conrad



Woolf


Epilogue


Appendix: Earlier Reading Lists


Selected Bibliography


Index