Great BooksSimon and Schuster, 18.06.2013 - 496 Seiten *NATIONAL BESTSELLER* “A lively adventure of the mind...The tone of the prose...is one of unqualified enthusiasm: energy, vigor, intellectual curiosity, and what might be called an ecstasy of imaginative journalism.” —The New York Times Book Review 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. In Great 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. |
Inhalt
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Interlude One | 60 |
Plato I | 64 |
Examination | 221 |
Winter Break | 225 |
SECOND SEMESTER | 227 |
Dante | 229 |
Boccaccio | 241 |
Hume and Kant | 250 |
Interlude Six | 267 |
Montaigne | 269 |
Homer II | 76 |
Interlude Two | 88 |
Plato II | 92 |
Sophocles | 106 |
Aristotle | 117 |
Interlude Three | 128 |
Aeschylus and Euripides | 131 |
Interlude Four | 145 |
Virgil | 146 |
The Old Testament | 156 |
The New Testament | 171 |
Augustine | 185 |
Machiavelli | 194 |
Interlude Five | 202 |
Hobbes and Locke | 206 |
Rousseau | 278 |
Shakespeare | 292 |
Hegel | 309 |
Austen | 325 |
Marx and Mill | 338 |
Nietzsche | 356 |
Interlude Seven | 376 |
Beauvoir | 380 |
Conrad | 408 |
Woolf | 430 |
Epilogue | 459 |
Earlier Reading Lists | 465 |
Selected Bibliography | 467 |
Index | 471 |
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