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Book Description: At the age of 48, film critic David Denby decided to return to Columbia University and re take the courses he took as a student in 1961: Literature, Humanities and Contemporary Civilization. He celebrates his rediscovery of authors such as Homer, Plato, Hegel, Austen, Marx, Nietzsche, and Virginia Woolf. He recreates the atmosphere of the classroom the strategies used by a remarkable group of teachers and the strengths and weaknesses of media age students as they grapple with these difficult, sometimes frightening works. All year long he watches the students grow and his own life and memories break out of hiding. 4 cassettes. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon.com Review /Source Content David Denby, New York city movie critic and journalist, entered Columbia University in 1991 to take the university's famous course in 'Great Books.' This is the course that, in preserving the notion of the western canon without apology to multiculturalists and feminists, has been an unlikely focus of America's culture war in recent years. Where other universities have caved in and revised or enlarged the canon, Columbia's course has remained intact. Denby's intention as a writer and protagonist in the culture war was to record the experience and the personal impact of the course. He has produced a cry from the heart in favor of the classics of western civilization, relaying with infectious enthusiasm how literature touched his soul.

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