From every page of A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books, author Alex Beam whispers: put down the Aristotle and pick up the remote. Stop reading that Dostoevsky text and start responding 2 a txt. There is a Dog the Bounty Hunter to watch, internet porn to surf, Grand Theft Auto IV to play. Conform... Beam's snobbishness toward a movement spreading great books to mediocre minds strangely morphs into egalitarianism when he attacks the project's contention that some books truly are great. Who's to say Jane Austin over Danielle Steele, Aristotle over Deepak Chopra, Thomas Aquinas over Richard Dawkins?by Daniel J. Flynn, more @ http://tinyurl.com/mxmfup (ISI)
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Who is to say?
, author Alex Beam whispers: put down the Aristotle and pick up the remote. Stop reading that Dostoevsky text and start responding 2 a txt. There is a Dog the Bounty Hunter to watch, internet porn to surf, Grand Theft Auto IV to play. Conform... Beam's snobbishness toward a movement spreading great books to mediocre minds strangely morphs into egalitarianism when he attacks the project's contention that some books truly are great. Who's to say Jane Austin over Danielle Steele, Aristotle over Deepak Chopra, Thomas Aquinas over Richard Dawkins?
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