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Why the Great Books aren?t the answer

By Alliance Alert

Patrick Deneen, Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, writing at Minding the Campus: "It's not enough to state that higher education should consist of an exposure to the Great Books and leave it at that: students will need some way of negotiating their way through the philosophical thicket into which they are being thrown . . . Where they exist, contemporary arguments on behalf of the Great Books are often as pernicious, and even indistinguishable from, the forms of value relativism that they purport to combat. Many conservative academics have become lazy in the defense of the Great Books, content to let the phrase stand in for a deeper and potentially more contentious examination of the various arguments within those books and the West itself, and of the need for university faculties to provide some kind of organized and well-formed guidance to students on how best to approach these texts."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).