{"product_id":"great-books-9781475872989","title":"Great Books","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust over 100 years ago Columbia's John Erskine started a General Honors program that was the precursor of the Great Books programs popularized by his student, Mortimer Adler. As a set term Great Books has elicited more than some controversy, especially because most relatively short lists of such works mostly features dead white men. However, their ideas have been much more accessible than publishing opportunities had been. The evidence is that most any group in America has made the Great Ideas their own. This book explores the benefits of reading Great Books, and is virtually unique in detailing what a series of Great Books classes has looked like over the past decades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat's so great about the great books? They bring us into conversations with great thinkers and ideas, teaches reading, analysis, conversation and writing. The program lays a liberal arts foundation for the very best college education. One of the best things we did when I was president of Pepperdine University was to encourage Michael Gose and his colleagues to begin a Great Books program for the first two years of the undergraduate experience. The only thing better would have been to require every student to take it. Following the lead of the great Robert Maynard Hutchins at the University of Chicago, one of the best things a college president can do is start and support a Great Books program. The model is out there, it only takes excellent teachers, like Michael Gose, and community support to accomplish it.\u003c\/p\u003e -- David Davenport, Research Fellow Emeritus, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Gose was my Great Books professor. He helped me navigate the great conversation. Now he’s poured his wisdom from forty years of teaching Great Books into one place. This book should be given to every novice and veteran teacher of the Great Books so that they may learn or remember how to continue the tradition that was started not merely by Erskin and Adler in the twentieth century but began with Homer, Plato and Aristotle millennia ago.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jessica Hooten Wilson, Seaver College Scholar of Liberal Arts, Pepperdine University, author of \"The Scandal of Holiness\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Becoming a Reader \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My Qualifications \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 75 Word Preamble \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acknowledging My Bias \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Resistance and Obstacles \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Maya Angelou and an Inclusive Great Conversation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Musings on Great Books \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Everyone’s Inheritance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Including Students and Alumni Writing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Prospect of the Erskine\/Adler Great Books \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Chapters \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Observations for Specific Reader Groups \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Everyone’s Inheritance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Zena Hitz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One. History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Brief History of the Great Books Idea \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Brief History of Great Books Initiatives \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Who, What, When, Where, Why, How \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What Great Books Is and Is Not \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two. Curriculum: Content \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContext 47\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Content 48\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Four Great Books Lists \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e John Erskine’s Original General Honors List of Great Books \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The List of Books with Consensus for Inclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Pepperdine University List for the Great Books Colloquium \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Martin Luther King, Jr. List \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Erskine\/Adler Approach \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Four Cornerstones of Western Culture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Translations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three. Curriculum: Skills \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reading a Difficult Book \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Essential Ideas \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 10 Key Ideas\/Issues\/Questions \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Seeing the Forest and Not the Trees \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e How to Mark a Book \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Writing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Medea Essay Exam \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Divine Comedy Term Paper \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Captain Fantastic Term Paper \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Virtues \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patience \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Engagement \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Flexibility \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four. Curriculum: Methods \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Shared Inquiry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Socratic Dialogue and Socratic Pedagogy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Go to Life for Help in Understanding a Difficult Text\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Pavez Story \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 10 Commandments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Discussant and the Discussion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Autodidactic Learning and\/or Discussion Group \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e How to Contribute to a Seminar Discussion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Teaching For Wisdom \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Kanako Suzuki \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Complementary Teaching Strategies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five. Curriculum: Evaluation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Evaluating Great Books \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Taxonomy of Engagement \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Retrospective Essay by a Great Books Alum \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What Other Former Students Say About Great Books \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six. Issues and Controversies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Specialized vs. General Knowledge \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Works in Conversation with Each Other\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Plato\/Augustine\/Dante\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Purview of the Text \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Readiness for the Particular Book \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Even Homer Nods \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Diversity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Venn Diagram \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Are the Books Simply Too Difficult? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Authority and the Canon \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “None of it is true.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Elective or Required? 152\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Secondary Sources 152\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e John Seery on Great Books Issues 153\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e MacIntyre and Lacy 153\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Repository for Wisdom? 155\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpts or Whole Books? 156\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reason and Emotion 156\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Aesthetics 157\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Existence and Essence 157\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Analyzing vs. Judging 158\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Anika Prather and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Making the Exclusive, Inclusive 159\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Censorship 161\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Battle of the Books (with apologies to Jonathan Swift) 162\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Creating the Right Attitude 164\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Canon in Perspective, Michelle Liu Carriger 170\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven. Benefits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Experts Takes on the Benefits of Great Books \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood Citizen and Thoughtful Human \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ambiguity, Agency \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Large Mindedness \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Expanded Capacities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Other Potential Benefits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Warnings \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Paradigm \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Constellation of the Canon \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Snapshots from Great Books Alumni \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Why Take or Not Take Great Books \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight. Limitations and Potential Downsides \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLimitations and Downsides\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Shakespeare Insults \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Student and Alumni Reflections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine. This Book’s Underlying Assumptions \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CS Lewis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Particular and the Universal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Constellation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Polyfocal Conspectus \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Student as the Heart of the Education Enterprise \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Inclusive \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Laughter \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Balance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Truisms \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Informing Ideas \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Christina Littlefield \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Alexis Allison \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten. Conclusions \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Great Books Deserve More Attention \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Obstacles of Academic Disciplines \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Getting the Student Started \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Resentment \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sunday Conclusions \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Brenden Fereday \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Julie Jang \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jane Travis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Julie Howe \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Checklist on Being Prepared for Great Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Become a Super Hero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Glossary of Hundred Dollar Words and Expressions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Adler’s List of 102 Ideas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gose’s List of Ten Ideas\/Issues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Time Line by Mia Maddy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Links\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040379306327,"sku":"9781475872989","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475872989.jpg?v=1750946554","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/great-books-9781475872989","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}