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Article: Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy, Poetry, and History.
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- The Christian Century
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- October 14, 1998
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By Herman L. Sinaiko. Yale University Press, 338 pp., $35.00.
THOSE WHO practice the religions of "the book" are no strangers to questions about "the canon." What has been fodder for the religious ages has now become an academic cottage industry. Led by the notorious Bloom Brothers, the late Allan and the ubiquitous Harold, a growing number of professors have written about what ought to be read and why.
Herman Sinaiko, professor of the humanities at the University of Chicago (Allan Bloom was his colleague), makes a distinguished contribution to this genre. The essays collected in Reclaiming the Canon are the fruits of a lifetime of teaching, mostly to ...