Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Has the Death of the Great Books Been Greatly Exaggerated?

'Misthiocracy got drunk and' at Ricochet.

"I cannot prove that people are reading The Great Books at greater or lesser rates than they did in the past. However, I can prove that people are downloading The Great Books at relatively high rates.

"First, we need to define The Great Books. For convenience, I’m going to use Mortimer Adler’s reading list. ...

"Here are lists of [Project] Gutenberg’s most-downloaded titles. Most of them are on Mr. Adler’s reading list."
And when not most, still many, or other works by their authors.

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