This book is a good intro to Lisp itself, which is worth knowing in any case- and symbolic AI is probably one of the best domains for it!
As for GOFAI in the age of DL/LLM, yes, you should know it, for a couple of reasons. A lot of these techniques aren't really considered "AI" anymore, they're just regular CS algorithms everybody should know: graph search, backtracking, optimization, parsing, etc. The other is that a lot of newer DL/LLM is actually going back to these old problems, but bringing all the new techniques to deal with limitations of the classical algorithms.
As for GOFAI in the age of DL/LLM, yes, you should know it, for a couple of reasons. A lot of these techniques aren't really considered "AI" anymore, they're just regular CS algorithms everybody should know: graph search, backtracking, optimization, parsing, etc. The other is that a lot of newer DL/LLM is actually going back to these old problems, but bringing all the new techniques to deal with limitations of the classical algorithms.