November 30, 2008 NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email. 11/29/08 - Saturday Forum: A California Reader Says Unemployed Americans’ “Plan B” Is “No Mas”; etc. The Center For The Study Of The Great Ideas Applauds James Fulford’s Defense Of Great BooksFrom:
Max
Weismann (e-mail
him)
Re: James Fulford’s Blog:
Great Books—Who Wrote Them? And Who Can Say?
Fulford wrote about Alex Beam’s book A Great Idea At The Time: The Rise, Fall, And Curious Afterlife of The Great Books
Beam’s subtitle should have read “Every Negative Fact
and Innuendo I Could Dredge Up.”
Although Beam was not particularly unkind to me in the
book, I found virtually every page to be a smart-alecky
and snide diatribe of the worst order against the Great
Books,
Mortimer Adler,
Robert Hutchins, et al. Worse, the book is replete
with errors of commission and omission.
As an effective antidote, I prescribe Hutchins’ pithy
essay,
The Great Conversation.
If the Great
Books crusade is as bleak as Beam purports, then
happily, not many will read his invective book. |
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