Course Title
Instructor
Stephen Aiello
Document Type
Syllabus
Date
Fall 9-1-2002
Description
In this "postmodern" age, this new millennium,in which the distinctions between "high" and "low" culture, academic and popular, significant and insignificant are difficult to determine, it seems to be almost folly to seek and classify what are the Great Books. One must consider that the grand hierarchies of religion, psychology, philosophy, political science and art have all been toppled in the post world war era and seemingly replaced by the ever changing image that is responsible for the "society of the spectacle" as Guy Debord described it. However, the great ideas of the past twentieth century were books - the Great Books that illuminated, inspired, and galvanized generations into action. An "attack," is how Nietzsche subtitles his The Genealogy of Morals. His treatise and the other texts of the course defied all that was previously as holy and true. This course and its "Great Books" will examine this attack and how it led to the "age of anxiety'' and the development of what was then called the "modem mind."
Academic Year
2002-2003
Level
Undergraduate
Course Code
HUM 410
Semester
Fall
Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Location
On Campus
Recommended Citation
Aiello, Stephen, "Great Books" (2002). Lynn University Syllabi. 72.
https://spiral.lynn.edu/syllabi/72
