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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: Book Talk 56: Roosevelt MontĂĄs on "Great Books"
Description: Roosevelt MontĂĄs is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. A specialist in Antebellum American literature and culture and in American citizenship, he focuses mainly on the history, meaning, and future of liberal education. This question motivates his book Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation (Princeton University Press, 2021).âGreat Booksâ dominate âthe Coreâ at Columbia University, where undergraduates must complete two years of non-departmental humanities courses. MontĂĄs teaches in the Core and was for ten years the director of the Center for the Core...