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重读经典的伟大冒险
(us) David Danby
The middle-aged writer Danby, with the secret expectation of "solving the crisis", chose to return to the classroom at his alma mater, Columbia University, 30 years after graduation, to reread those great humanities classics. Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Hegel, Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Woolf... Nearly 30 representative writers and their works in the Western humanities tradition appear one after another in his narrative, outlining a clear map for an overview of Western literature and thought, and a thorough reading of the history of Western civilization. In the process of re-reading classics, Danby gradually realized that "returning to pure reading" itself was helping him break through the fog woven by second-hand information, bringing peace to his body and mind, and guiding him to constantly search for and "try on" different selves; and participating in debates between teachers and students in class made him realize that classics are taking on new vitality through repeated re-reading, which not only contains the humanistic spirit passed down for thousands of years, but also reflects the thinking and judgment of the younger generation today. This life experiment of returning to school and re-reading classics is also a great adventure of re-understanding oneself.
The middle-aged writer Danby, with the secret expectation of "solving the crisis", chose to return to the classroom at his alma mater, Columbia University, 30 years after graduation, to reread those great humanities classics. Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Hegel, Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Woolf... Nearly 30 representative writers and their works in the Western humanities tradition appear one after another in his narrative, outlining a clear map for an overview of Western literature and thought, and a thorough reading of the history of Western civilization. In the process of re-reading classics, Danby gradually realized that "returning to pure reading" itself was helping him break through the fog woven by second-hand information, bringing peace to his body and mind, and guiding him to constantly search for and "try on" different selves; and participating in debates between teachers and students in class made him realize that classics are taking on new vitality through repeated re-reading, which not only contains the humanistic spirit passed down for thousands of years, but also reflects the thinking and judgment of the younger generation today. This life experiment of returning to school and re-reading classics is also a great adventure of re-understanding oneself.