Kenneth Ehrenberg, Alum
Columbia College 1993
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2005
The book that meant the most to me would probably be Boccaccio's Decameron. It was the only book that I actually read from cover to cover in Lit-Hum (which was also the only time I read more than what was assigned). Years later, a girlfriend and I would read to each other from the same dog-eared copy on a deserted beach in Costa Rica. I suppose we imagined ourselves wating out a plague as well.
Next in line would be Kant's Groundwork. It was the first time I've ever had a philosopher actually read my mind hundreds of years before I was even born, and put my intuitions in a more detailed form than I ever could.
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