Should We Abandon the Canon?
Aug 12, 2019Should we still be venerating works by Plato, Shakespeare, Woolf, and company as “great books”? Should we still be reading them at all? Or should we simply abandon the "Western canon"? These are the questions we're asking in this week's show.
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Harold G. Neuman
Thursday, August 29, 2019 -- 7:57 AM
Once again, and with directOnce again, and with direct and expressed feeling: you cannot change history, and, like it or not, we learn some things from our mistakes...if, and when, they truly ARE mistakes. If writers EXPRESS racist and/or sexist views, is it a quod erat demonstrandum that they thereby HOLD them? Or are they acting as barometers for society generally? Lamenting 'the human condition'?