Pulitzer winner embraces tradition
Modern attitudes toward the Western intellectual tradition should be reevaluated, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson argued in a lecture Tuesday.
In the first talk of the four-part 2009 Dwight H. Terry lecture series, Robinson dismissed the notion that humans have reached a stage where they have fully unraveled the mysteries of the human condition, an idea she called the “crossing of the threshold.” Instead, Robinson argued in front of a nearly full house in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, modern thinkers should have respect, if not reverence, for the intellectuals who have...
