Synopsis
The author engagingly explores some fifty classic works (mainly but not exclusively from the West) to elucidate their contents and draw out ideas valuable for understanding human life in this world and for living that life well. Worldly Wisdom has a distinctly humanistic slant, with a suggestion of a thinker's self-help book.
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A cultural historian, essayist, and critic, Jim Allen received his doctorate from Columbia University. He has taught at Columbia, Haverford College, Brigham Young University, the New School, and the Juilliard School, where he was academic vice president. For several years he taught a Great Books class for adults in New York City. A longtime New Yorker, he now resides in Honolulu.
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