Literary Festival 2015: High Culture and the Western Canon: has the fightback begun?

[@Ax18NY]

I'm a fan of Raphael. Always a treat to hear him and even more, to read him.

[@LiberaLib]

Interesting. I like the opening guy, I agree that the exploding of the canon was overall worthwhile but western civilization did pay a price in terms of the loss of the notion of ideological stability. Even if that perception of stability was illusory or unjust, it did allow for a certain collective investment in the goal of human progress, and i feel we've lost much of that in the identity politics/postmodern era. it's a loss we should at least try to acknowledge and better understand, and that is probably largely a historical project.

[@TheIrishfitter]

''Strength can only match itself to strength'' - Nietzsche

[@juliemcgrath6710]

Western canon is the heart of western man. Defile that and conceal it in guilt and he will die. Reading western canon is a way of stepping back and appreciating the heights of what man has accomplished. The heights he can attain at his best. Reading western classics leaves me inspired. It's now a requisite for any academic that they apologize to every savage under the sun for the history of western man and assure all non-westerners that they are just as capable as our greatest minds.

[@justinw1806]

Marry me! Please!

[@AminTheMystic]

You are just a standard issue twonk. One who over simplifies a complex debate... to make irrelevant points. People like you are part of the problem. And I really doubt you actually read. Your type never do.

[@sticksman1979]

The question at 1:06:00 was ridiculous. Churchwell is 100% right.

[@petermonicid6053]

American moral leadership !!! Moral ??? you are kiding

[@philnewton3096]

how can the public participate when premises are closed ? 2019

[@sattarabus]

Frederic was in his elements, swinging in the singular anecdotal cradle. He supplied the salutary additive of whimsy, humour and self-deprecation the tenor of the discussion lacked. Maurice was speaking in an inaudibly soft voice. We missed the nuggets, or the flakes thereof, that fell from his lips.

[@Vivita257]

Why no subtitles option!? In this day and age!

[@sattarabus]

Rich food for thought, with cognitive additives ensuring eupepsia rather than flatulence.

[@spicerc1244]

We must expand the canon because populations who don’t read the canon are underrepresented in the canon lol

[@philnewton3096]

now about pensioners free licences -in 2019?

[@joeruf6526]

What on earth is a "global perspective"?

[@spicerc1244]

Let’s expand the canon because one male peer didn’t like your syllabus lol

[@Jorhanbear]

Did the Alt-Right start here?

[@mysticmouse7261]

Sappy pc destroys excellence. Political criteria and values are not aesthetic ones.

[@johnnythunder196]

Good Lord - this Churchwell woman is insufferable. I empathize with any & all bright students who've had to endure her nonsense.

[@sticksman1979]

Are you threatened by her by chance?

[@AminTheMystic]

If pushed I doubt you could state three things she said that were wrong.

[@shabanahfazal6512]

Johnny Thunder She was superb - passionate, rigorous and nuanced. We’re lucky to have public academics like her in this country.

[@Jonmad17]

@@sticksman1979 I love how critiquing a man's masculinity has become the go-to defense of anyone criticizing a woman online for anything. So dishonest.

[@Jengaaa21]

@@AminTheMystic That evisceration @1:07:31 was enough.

[@ozowen904]

So typical about postmodernist and their apologist to start talking about different meaning of words, other people’s impressions, different connotations, etc. and so trite and not to the point. Always about everything other than the fucking point.

[@nancymohass4891]

…still no quotation from non westerner thinkers,!!

[@cvetislavstoyanov4367]

It's the "Western canon". You imbecile.

[@regmunday8354]

Re Frederic Raphael: I have never heard anyone talk so eoloquently out of their own arse.