Open Minds Book Club: Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students
Thank you for your interest in participating in the Open Minds Book Club!
For the January 2024 session of Open Minds, we will be reading and discussing Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montás.
What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors, Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi, had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education and why it can still remake lives.
The discussion for this book will be held on Wednesday, January 24, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Richard M. DeVos Center’s Meijer Regency Room located on the GVSU Pew Campus.
Thanks to the generous support of our Hauenstein Center members, we are able to make copies of this book available for free to the first 20 individuals to register.
Please order or request your copy of the book by January 10th to allow time for shipping and to enjoy the reading before the discussion.
See the full Open Minds Book Club schedule here!
Location Information
Meijer Regency Room
Richard M. DeVos Center
401 West Fulton Street
Grand Rapids, MI
49504-6431
Contact Information
If you have any questions, please email Kahler Sweeney.
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This event was added to the calendar by Maddy Miller (millemk3@gvsu.edu) on Friday, September 29, 2023 and was last updated on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 at 11:04 a.m.