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We don\u2019t get to choose our fans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Naomi Kanakia, for example, probably doesn\u2019t want <\/span>me \u2014<\/span><\/i> a religious-minded, gender-critical writer <\/span>\u2014<\/span><\/i> to review her book, <\/span>What\u2019s So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though it Might Destroy You)<\/span><\/i>, published on Tuesday. The book is a defense of the classics, written for the Left, and it has agonizingly cringe chapter headings such as \u201cAren\u2019t the Great Books kinda problematic?\u201d In it, Kanakia trots out all the usual progressive objections to the canon, including that Western novels can psychologically damage marginalized people, and that to say you like Great Books can be read as an endorsement of white men (<\/span>the horror<\/span><\/i>). The biggest problem with the great books, though, is the people who read them: Right-wingers, religious people, racists, and transphobes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kanakia is a literary critic and author of several young-adult novels, and she writes the excellent literary Substack Woman of Letters. This book sprung out of a lifetime self-improvement (and enjoyment) project in which she read her way through most of a legendary \u201cGreat Books\u201d list, <\/span>The New Lifetime Reading Plan<\/span><\/i>, by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major. The process changed her life and her tastes, set her on a rigorous program of reading a wider range of classics, and had unexpected results (the promise to \u201cdestroy you\u201d in the title is joking, but the books will change you, she cautions). In her case, several years spent reading the 18-book-long Sanskrit epic <\/span>Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata<\/span><\/i>, one of the longest epic poems in world literature, caused her, a secular American of Indian origin, to begin finding something \u201cdeeply true\u201d in Hinduism; her Substack has mentioned that she now goes to temple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, \u201cthe main reason I have trouble endorsing the Great Books is that so many transphobes also love them,\u201d Kanakia writes. She is trans, and \u201ctransphobes\u201d in her estimation include people who imagine trans rights are complicated, and those who feel that trans rights might be \u201cup for debate.\u201d (A note on pronouns: it has always been my belief that the usage of transgender pronouns is the provenance of the speaker, and should be decided as a relational matter between individuals. Despite Kanakia\u2019s probable feelings about gender critics like me, a few years ago I had a friendly exchange with her on X, formerly Twitter, and I will refer to her as \u201cher.\u201d)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All this would appear to be a political gulf too vast to navigate, and <\/span>What\u2019s So Great About the Great Books? <\/span><\/i>would appear to be a niche product for a niche audience. But it is actually much more. In the same way Kanakia does not want people on the Left to miss out on the Great Books because of their politics, I do not want people on the Right to miss out on <\/span>her<\/span><\/i> great book because of their politics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The topic of what books we should be reading and teaching is obviously a cultural flashpoint, with the \u201cdiversity\u201d versus \u201ctradition\u201d camps well established, and horror stories abounding. Most recently,<\/span> a professor at Stanford<\/span> went public with the complaint that the university\u2019s three-course general-education requirement includes, \u201cwith the partial exception of Frankenstein,\u201d <\/span>no<\/span><\/i> literary classics in the Western liberal tradition. In addition, the Stanford scholar complained, \u201c<\/span>the syllabus assigns roughly 45 pages of canonical Western philosophical writing across the entire quarter, against more than 500 pages of contemporary work organized around identity, oppression, and indigenous ways of knowing.\u201d These latter books, he says, are eminently skippable: \u201cif these courses were electives, I would not recommend them; I would tell students to seek out the best courses Stanford offers in the humanities instead.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This trend in education, and the backlash against the trend, make Kanakia\u2019s topic of vital significance to anyone interested in culture and education in America. If we want a return to the classics, what do we even mean? What <\/span>are<\/span><\/i> the Great Books? (They are a concept invented by a president of Harvard in the early 20th century, she tells us, which was only popularized in the 1930s; there\u2019s no definitive list.) Is reading the Great Books really a return to ancient or classical tradition? (No, the classical tradition was almost exclusively to study Greek and Latin; popular-novel-reading represents a withering of tradition.) And can we really say any book is \u201cgreat\u201d in some kind of objective, existential way, or does that depend on the reader? (We actually can say so, though personal choice is always relevant, too.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kanakia\u2019s treatment of these subjects is wonderfully illuminating. And the extreme skepticism with which she approaches the concept gives her conclusion \u2014 that she loves these books; and that they are worth reading \u2014\u00a0 a beautiful force. What she\u2019s really doing is taking on the haters of the Western canon, giving their arguments the strongest and most sympathetic possible interpretation, and then defeating them. The treatment should be highly satisfying for any lover of literature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For instance, in the chapter \u201cWhy not read other books that are equally beautiful but have better politics?,\u201d Kanakia demolishes the idea that it\u2019s possible for a book to be great and also politically correct. \u201cIf you\u2019re asking for a book that can only be read as supporting one politically correct viewpoint, then you\u2019re asking for a book that is lacking precisely the quality that makes the Great Books so great,\u201d she writes. In any truly great book, she argues, the author has engaged courageously with thorny \u201cmoral, ethical, political and spiritual questions on the deepest and most rigorous level,\u201d which means they have engaged with situations that are legitimately complicated, and they have portrayed the complexity. In her lovely phrase, she promises you\u2019ll often see \u201cthe ghosts of other answers\u201d within whatever answer a book produces. Authorial willingness to take on such fearless exploration is \u201cintegrity,\u201d in her word, and it is the quality that more than any other defines a Great Book.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a reasonably good description of Kanakia\u2019s own method. She is one of the best critics and literary Substackers around, and both are professions that require a person to be able see (or read) something and form an original opinion \u2014 not the consensus opinion, not an opinion you learned in school, but an opinion of your own. She has a rare talent for this, and also a rare talent for erudition without pretension. Her piece<\/span> on <\/span>New Yorker<\/span><\/i> fiction<\/span> is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the literary landscape today. Her willingness to take on<\/span> establishment hits<\/span> is estimable. And <\/span>What\u2019s So Great About the Great Books?<\/span><\/i>, itself, is brave given her milieu and the cultural circumstances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kanakia\u2019s list starts with the <\/span>Epic of Gilgamesh<\/span><\/i>, and ends in 1958 with <\/span>Things Fall Apart<\/span><\/i>. It was originally published in 1960, but the new, revised version she is working from, published in 1997, offers an edited selection that includes more works of world literature. She took a casual, pragmatic approach, reading out-of-order, starting with works she considered easiest (in the same order I\u2019d choose myself; maybe we all know \u201ceasy\u201d when we see it): American realists and modernists, then British realists and modernists, then 19th century, then Russian \u2026. The hard stuff \u2014 epics, philosophy, Old and Middle English and poetry \u2014 came last.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t discuss particular works, except in the few cases she uses a text to make one of her larger points about reading and greatness. Her reading of Proust, for example, serves as the anecdotal material for a discussion of taste: what pleasure is she getting from this difficult-to-read book, she asks, and how does that pleasure differ from the pleasures of an unquestionably simpler one? Or, for another example, a snippet of Old English poetry is used to illustrate a point about diversity: when dealing with vast differences in time, to insist on racial diversity is essentialist and reductive. \u201cIt seems rather arbitrary to say that one people, the Anglo-Saxons, were white and therefore more similar to us, whereas another, the Chinese, were a different race and hence very different from us and more worthy of our study.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout, she pulls in other writers and thinkers \u2014 Husserl on the \u201clifeworld\u201d or Kant on the limits of human reason, for example \u2014 with a truly unusual and admirable simplicity and clarity. Kanakia may be a critic and a professional, but she is first and foremost a reader, and the book\u2019s ultimate thesis is that the Great Books are for everyone \u2014 or can be. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame, then, that her view of trans rights issues, and of the conservative and religious enemy is one of the few places she does seem unwilling to see complexity. She writes critically about Hillsdale College, a Christian institution that requires the classics of the Western canon as part of its core curriculum, because it \u201chas a history of opposing LGBTQ rights and discriminating against LGBTQ students.\u201d That she\u2019s writing about Hillsdale at all is, in one sense, an example of her integrity and clarity of vision. She\u2019s determined to speak the truth, including that the books she loves are championed by the Right. (\u201cIs it really so surprising that they\u2019d love <\/span>Anna Karenina<\/span><\/i>?\u201d she asks. \u201cOf course not \u2026 it\u2019s an explicitly Christian book!\u201d)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But in another sense, the greater integrity would be admitting that, obviously, there <\/span>is<\/span><\/i> a debate over trans rights, and that people, including religious people, might have reasons for this that are more complex than \u201ctransphobia\u201d \u2014 a fake word, used to simplify and demonize your opponent and win an argument, and thus not a word worthy of a great book.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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