The Great Books & Postmodernism “Rightly Understood”

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The Great Books & Postmodernism "Rightly Understood"
      

We tend to think that because the great authors of the great books of the past must have been racists, sexists, and classists and, of couse, not as technologically advanced or as productive as we are, they have nothing real to say to us.

But through "postmodernism rightly understood," there's a better way of situating the "great books" in higher education today.  

It doesn't point to some uncritical veneration for the best that's been thought and said in the past.  But it does show why that thought might teach us what we need to know about our real greatness that's very tough for us to learn in any other way.


         

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