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Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., to present the Great Books in a 54-volume set; the second edition of the series comprises 60 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series: the book must be relevant to contemporary matters, and not only important in its historical context; it must be rewarding to re-read; and it must be a part of "the great conversation about the great ideas", relevant to at least 25 of the 102 great ideas identified by the editors. The books were not chosen on the basis of ethnic and cultural inclusiveness, historical influence, or the editors' agreement with the views expressed by the authors.[1]

The Great Books (second edition)

Contents 1 History 2 Volumes 3 Second edition 4 Criticisms and responses 4.1 Criticisms of the authors selected 4.2 Criticisms of the works selected 4.3 Criticisms of difficulty 4.4 Criticisms of the set's rationale 4.5 Response to criticisms 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

History The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, collaborated with Mortimer Adler to develop a course — generally aimed at businesspeople — for the purpose of filling the gaps in their liberal education; to render the reader as an intellectually rounded man or woman familiar with the Great Books of the Western canon, and knowledgeable of the great ideas developed in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

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course of three millennia. An original student of the project was William Benton (later a U.S. senator, and then chief executive officer of the Encyclopædia Britannica publishing company) who proposed selecting the greatest books of the Western canon, and that Hutchins and Adler produce unabridged editions for publication, by Encyclopædia Britannica. Yet, Hutchins was wary of such a business endeavour, fearing that the books would be sold as a product, thereby devaluing them as cultural artefacts; nevertheless, he agreed to the business deal, and paid $60,000 for the project. After deciding what subjects and authors to include, and how to present the materials, the project was begun, with a budget of $2,000,000. On April 15, 1952, the Great Books of the Western World were presented at a publication party in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York City. In his speech, Hutchins said, "This is more than a set of books, and more than a liberal education. Great Books of the Western World is an act of piety. Here are the sources of our being. Here is our heritage. This is the West. This is its meaning for mankind." The first two sets of books were given to Elizabeth II, Queen of the U.K., and to Harry S. Truman, the incumbent U.S. President. The initial sales of the book sets were poor, with only 1,863 sets sold in 1952, and less than one-tenth of that number of book sets were sold in 1953. A financial debacle loomed until Encyclopædia Britannica altered the sales strategy, and sold the book set through experienced door-to-door encyclopædia-salesmen, as Hutchins had feared; but, through that method, 50,000 sets were sold in 1961. In 1963 the editors published Gateway to the Great Books, a ten-volume set of readings meant to introduce the authors and the subjects of the Great Books. Each year, from 1961 to 1998, the editors published The Great Ideas Today, an annual updating about the applicability of the Great Books to contemporary life.[2][3] The Internet and the E-book reader have made available some of the Great Books of the Western World in an on-line format.[4]

Volumes Originally published in 54 volumes, The Great Books of the Western World covers categories including fiction, history, poetry, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, drama, politics, religion, economics, and ethics. Hutchins wrote the first volume, titled The Great Conversation, as an introduction and discourse on liberal education. Adler sponsored the next two volumes, "The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon", as a way of emphasizing the unity of the set and, by extension, of Western thought in general. A team of indexers spent months compiling references to such topics as "Man's freedom in relation to the will of God" and "The denial of void or vacuum in favor of a plenum". They grouped the topics into 102 chapters, for which Adler wrote 102 introductions. Four colors identify each volume by subject area -- Imaginative Literature, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, History and Social Science, and Philosophy and Theology. The volumes contained the following works:

Volume 1 The Great Conversation

Volume 2 Syntopicon I: Angel, Animal, Aristocracy, Art, Astronomy, Beauty, Being, Cause, Chance, Change, Citizen, Constitution, Courage, Custom and Convention, Definition, Democracy, Desire, Dialectic, Duty, Education, Element, Emotion, Eternity, Evolution, Experience, Family, Fate, Form, God, Good and Evil, Government, Habit, Happiness, History, Honor, Hypothesis, Idea, Immortality, Induction, Infinity, Judgment, Justice, Knowledge, Labor, Language, Law, Liberty, Life and Death, Logic, and Love https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

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Volume 3 Syntopicon II: Man, Mathematics, Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memory and Imagination, Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy, Nature, Necessity and Contingency, Oligarchy, One and Many, Opinion, Opposition, Philosophy, Physics, Pleasure and Pain, Poetry, Principle, Progress, Prophecy, Prudence, Punishment, Quality, Quantity, Reasoning, Relation, Religion, Revolution, Rhetoric, Same and Other, Science, Sense, Sign and Symbol, Sin, Slavery, Soul, Space, State, Temperance, Theology, Time, Truth, Tyranny, Universal and Particular, Virtue and Vice, War and Peace, Wealth, Will, Wisdom, and World

Volume 4 Homer (rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler) The Iliad The Odyssey

Volume 5 Aeschylus (translated into English verse by G.M. Cookson) The Suppliant Maidens The Persians Seven Against Thebes Prometheus Bound The Oresteia Agamemnon Choephoroe The Eumenides Sophocles (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb) The Oedipus Cycle Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Ajax Electra The Trachiniae Philoctetes Euripides (translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge) Rhesus Medea Hippolytus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

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Alcestis Heracleidae The Suppliants Trojan Women Ion Helen Andromache Electra Bacchantes Hecuba Heracles Mad Phoenician Women Orestes Iphigeneia in Tauris Iphigeneia at Aulis Cyclops Aristophanes (translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers) The Acharnians The Knights The Clouds The Wasps Peace The Birds The Frogs Lysistrata Thesmophoriazusae Ecclesiazousae Plutus

Volume 6 Herodotus The History (translated by George Rawlinson) Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War (translated by Richard Crawley and revised by R. Feetham)

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Plato The Dialogues (translated by Benjamin Jowett) Charmides Lysis Laches Protagoras Euthydemus Cratylus Phaedrus Ion Symposium Meno Euthyphro Apology Crito Phaedo Gorgias The Republic Timaeus Critias Parmenides Theaetetus Sophist Statesman Philebus Laws The Seventh Letter (translated by J. Harward)

Volume 8 Aristotle Categories On Interpretation Prior Analytics Posterior Analytics Topics Sophistical Refutations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

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Physics On the Heavens On Generation and Corruption Meteorology Metaphysics On the Soul Minor biological works

Volume 9 Aristotle History of Animals Parts of Animals On the Motion of Animals On the Gait of Animals On the Generation of Animals Nicomachean Ethics Politics The Athenian Constitution Rhetoric Poetics

Volume 10 Hippocrates Works Galen On the Natural Faculties

Volume 11 Euclid The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements Archimedes On the Sphere and Cylinder Measurement of a Circle On Conoids and Spheroids On Spirals On the Equilibrium of Planes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

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The Sand Reckoner The Quadrature of the Parabola On Floating Bodies Book of Lemmas The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems Apollonius of Perga On Conic Sections Nicomachus of Gerasa Introduction to Arithmetic

Volume 12 Lucretius On the Nature of Things (translated by H.A.J. Munro) Epictetus The Discourses (translated by George Long) Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (translated by George Long)

Volume 13 Virgil Eclogues Georgics Aeneid

Volume 14 Plutarch The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

Volume 15 P. Cornelius Tacitus (translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb) The Annals The Histories

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Nicolaus Copernicus On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis) Johannes Kepler (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis) Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV–V) The Harmonies of the World (Book V)

Volume 17 Plotinus The Six Enneads

Volume 18 Augustine of Hippo The Confessions The City of God On Christian Doctrine

Volume 19 Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (First part complete, selections from second part, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)

Volume 20 Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (Selections from second and third parts and supplement, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)

Volume 21 Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy (Translated by Charles Eliot Norton)

Volume 22 Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde The Canterbury Tales

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Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince Thomas Hobbes Leviathan

Volume 24 François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel

Volume 25 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays

Volume 26 William Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry the Sixth The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth The Tragedy of Richard the Third The Comedy of Errors Titus Andronicus The Taming of the Shrew The Two Gentlemen of Verona Love's Labour's Lost Romeo and Juliet The Tragedy of King Richard the Second A Midsummer Night's Dream The Life and Death of King John The Merchant of Venice The First Part of King Henry the Fourth The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth Much Ado About Nothing The Life of King Henry the Fifth Julius Caesar As You Like It

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Volume 27 William Shakespeare Twelfth Night; or, What You Will The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark The Merry Wives of Windsor Troilus and Cressida All's Well That Ends Well Measure for Measure Othello, the Moor of Venice King Lear Macbeth Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Timon of Athens Pericles, Prince of Tyre Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Tempest The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth Sonnets

Volume 28 William Gilbert On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies Galileo Galilei Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences William Harvey On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals On the Circulation of Blood On the Generation of Animals

Volume 29 Miguel de Cervantes The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha

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Sir Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning Novum Organum New Atlantis

Volume 31 René Descartes Rules for the Direction of the Mind Discourse on the Method Meditations on First Philosophy Objections Against the Meditations and Replies The Geometry Benedict de Spinoza Ethics

Volume 32 John Milton English Minor Poems Paradise Lost Samson Agonistes Areopagitica

Volume 33 Blaise Pascal The Provincial Letters Pensées Scientific and mathematical essays

Volume 34 Sir Isaac Newton Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Optics Christian Huygens Treatise on Light

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John Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay An Essay Concerning Human Understanding George Berkeley The Principles of Human Knowledge David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Volume 36 Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Volume 37 Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Volume 38 Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws Jean Jacques Rousseau A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality A Discourse on Political Economy The Social Contract

Volume 39 Adam Smith An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Volume 40 Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 1)

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Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 2)

Volume 42 Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals Critique of Practical Reason Excerpts from The Metaphysics of Morals Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics with a note on Conscience General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals The Science of Right The Critique of Judgement

Volume 43 American State Papers Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation The Constitution of the United States of America Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay The Federalist John Stuart Mill On Liberty Considerations on Representative Government Utilitarianism

Volume 44 James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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Michael Faraday Experimental Researches in Electricity

Volume 46 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Philosophy of Right The Philosophy of History

Volume 47 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust

Volume 48 Herman Melville Moby Dick; or, The Whale

Volume 49 Charles Darwin The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Volume 50 Karl Marx Capital Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Manifesto of the Communist Party

Volume 51 Count Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

Volume 52 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov

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William James The Principles of Psychology

Volume 54 Sigmund Freud The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis Selected Papers on Hysteria The Sexual Enlightenment of Children The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis The Interpretation of Dreams On Narcissism Instincts and Their Vicissitudes Repression The Unconscious A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis Beyond the Pleasure Principle Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego The Ego and the Id Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety Thoughts for the Times on War and Death Civilization and Its Discontents New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

Second edition In 1990 a second edition of Great Books of the Western World was published, with updated translations and six more volumes of material covering the 20th century, an era of which the first edition was nearly devoid. A number of pre-20th century books were also added, and four were dropped: Apollonius' On Conic Sections, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and Joseph Fourier's Analytical Theory of Heat. Adler later expressed regret about dropping On Conic Sections and Tom Jones. Adler also voiced disagreement with the addition of Voltaire's Candide, and said that the Syntopicon should have included references to the Koran. He addressed criticisms that the set was too heavily Western European and did not adequately represent women and minority authors.[1] The pre-20th century books added (volume numbering is not strictly compatible with the first edition due to rearrangement of some books):

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John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion (Selections)

Volume 23 Erasmus The Praise of Folly

Volume 31 Molière The School for Wives The Critique of the School for Wives Tartuffe Don Juan The Miser The Would-Be Gentleman The Imaginary Invalid Jean Racine Bérénice Phèdre

Volume 34 Voltaire Candide Denis Diderot Rameau's Nephew

Volume 43 Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil

Volume 44 Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America

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Volume 45 Honoré de Balzac Cousin Bette

Volume 46 Jane Austen Emma George Eliot Middlemarch

Volume 47 Charles Dickens Little Dorrit

Volume 48 Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn

Volume 52 Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House The Wild Duck Hedda Gabler The Master Builder The six volumes of 20th century material consisted of the following:

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Bertrand Russell The Problems of Philosophy Martin Heidegger What Is Metaphysics? Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations Karl Barth The Word of God and the Word of Man

Volume 56 Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis Max Planck Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers Alfred North Whitehead An Introduction to Mathematics Albert Einstein Relativity: The Special and the General Theory Arthur Eddington The Expanding Universe Niels Bohr Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections) Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology G. H. Hardy A Mathematician's Apology Werner Heisenberg Physics and Philosophy Erwin Schrödinger What Is Life? Theodosius Dobzhansky Genetics and the Origin of Species C. H. Waddington The Nature of Life

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The Theory of the Leisure Class R. H. Tawney The Acquisitive Society John Maynard Keynes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

Volume 58 Sir James George Frazer The Golden Bough (selections) Max Weber Essays in Sociology (selections) Johan Huizinga The Autumn of the Middle Ages Claude Lévi-Strauss Structural Anthropology (selections)

Volume 59 Henry James The Beast in the Jungle George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past: "Swann in Love" Willa Cather A Lost Lady Thomas Mann Death in Venice James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis D. H. Lawrence The Prussian Officer T. S. Eliot The Waste Land Eugene O'Neill Mourning Becomes Electra F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby William Faulkner A Rose for Emily Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children Ernest Hemingway The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber George Orwell Animal Farm Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot

Criticisms and responses Criticisms of the authors selected Criticism has attended Great Books of the Western World since publication. The stress Hutchins placed on the monumental importance of these works was an easy target for those who dismissed the project as a celebration of dead European males, ignoring contributions of women and non-European authors.[5][6] The criticism swelled in tandem with the feminist and civil rights movements.[7] In his Europe: A History, Norman Davies criticizes the compilation for overrepresenting selected parts of the western world, especially Britain and the U.S., while ignoring the other, particularly Central and Eastern Europe. According to his calculation, in 151 authors included in both editions, there are 49 English or American authors, 27 Frenchmen, 20 Germans, 15 ancient Greeks, 9 ancient Romans, 6 Russians, 4 Scandinavians, 3 Spaniards, 3 Italians, 3 Irishmen, 3 Scots, and 3 Eastern Europeans. Prejudices and preferences, he concludes, are self-evident.

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In response, such criticisms have been derided as ad hominem and biased in themselves. The counter-argument maintains that such criticisms discount the importance of books solely because of generic, imprecise and possibly irrelevant characteristics of the books' authors, rather than because of the content of the books themselves.[1] In France there appeared several criticisms arguing that writers included in the list such as Milton, Harvey, Gilbert or Melville weren't universally as relevant as some other writers such as John Calvin and Voltaire, who were initially excluded; also, that it excluded many non-British or US authors from the early 20th century who were better known to French readers, such as Musil, Roth or Zweig.

Criticisms of the works selected Others thought that while the selected authors were worthy, too much emphasis was placed on the complete works of a single author rather than a wider selection of authors and representative works (for instance, all of Shakespeare's plays are included). The second edition of the set already contained 130 authors and 517 individual works. The editors point out that the guides to additional reading for each topic in the Syntopicon refer the interested reader to many more authors.[8]

Criticisms of difficulty The scientific and mathematical selections also came under criticism for being incomprehensible to the average reader, especially with the absence of any sort of critical apparatus. The second edition did drop two scientific works, by Apollonius and Fourier, in part because of their perceived difficulty for the average reader. Nevertheless, the editors steadfastly maintain that average readers are capable of understanding far more than the critics deem possible. Robert Hutchins stated this view in the introduction to the first edition: Because the great bulk of mankind have never had the chance to get a liberal education, it cannot be "proved" that they can get it. Neither can it be "proved" that they cannot. The statement of the ideal, however, is of value in indicating the direction that education should take.[9]

Criticisms of the set's rationale Since the great majority of the works were still in print, one critic noted that the company could have saved two million dollars and simply written a list. Encyclopædia Britannica's aggressive promotion produced solid sales. Dense formatting also did not help readability.[10] The second edition selected translations that were generally considered an improvement, though the cramped typography remained. Through reading plans and the Syntopicon, the editors have attempted to guide readers through the set.[11]

Response to criticisms The editors respond that the set contains wide-ranging debates representing many viewpoints on significant issues, not a monolithic school of thought. Mortimer Adler argued in the introduction to the second edition: Presenting a wide variety and divergence of views or opinions, among which there is likely to be some truth but also much more error, the Syntopicon [and by extension the larger set itself] invites readers to think for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

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themselves and make up their own minds on every topic under consideration.[12]

See also John Erskine Charles W. Eliot Robert Maynard Hutchins Mortimer J. Adler Educational perennialism Western canon Great Books Harvard Classics Liberal arts

References 1. ^ a b c Mortimer Adler (September 1997). "Selecting works for the 1990 edition of Great Books of the Western World" (http://books.mirror.org/gb.sel1990.html). Great Books Index. Retrieved 2007-05-29. "We did not base our selections on an author's nationality, religion, politics, or field of study; nor on an author's race or gender. Great books were not chosen to make up quotas of any kind; there was no "affirmative action" in the process." 2. ^ Milton Meyer (1993). "Robert Maynard Hutchins: A Memoir" (http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4w10061d/). University of California Press. Retrieved 2007-05-30. This biography of Robert M. Hutchins contains an extensive discussion of the Great Books project. 3. ^ Carrie Golus (2002-07-11). "Special Collections tells the story of a cornerstone of American education" (http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020711/greatbooks.shtml). The University of Chicago Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-05-30. 4. ^ "Great Books of the Western World (eBooks @ University of Adelaide)" (http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/literature/gbww/index.html). University of Adelaide. Retrieved 7 June 2012. 5. ^ Sabrina Walters (2001-07-01). "Great Books won Adler fame, scorn" (http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P24603568.html). Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2007-07-01. 6. ^ Peter Temes (2001-07-03). "Death of a Great Reader and Philosopher" (http://web.archive.org/web/20071104012348/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20010703/ai_n13917 760). Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20010703/ai_n13917760) on 2007-11-04. Retrieved 2007-07-11. 7. ^ John Berlau (August 2001). "What Happened to the Great Ideas? – Mortimer J. Adler's Great Books programs" (http://www.greatbooksacademy.org/newsroom/what-happened-to-the-great-ideas-by-john-berlau/). Insight Magazine Insight on the News 17 (32): 16. Retrieved March 2014. "Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates blasted the Great Books for showing 'profound disrespect for the intellectual capacities of people of color – red, brown or yellow.'" 8. ^ Mortimer J. Adler (1990). "Bibliography of Additional Readings". The Syntopicon: II. Great Books of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

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Western World, vol. 1-2 (2nd edition ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. pp. 909–996. ISBN 0-85229-531-6. 9. ^ Robert M. Hutchins (1952). "Chapter VI: Education for All". The Great Conversation. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. p. 44. 10. ^ Dwight Macdonald (1952-11-29 with later appendix). "The Book-of-the-Millennium Club" (http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/macdonald-great-books.html). The New Yorker. Retrieved 2007-05-29. "I also wonder how many of the over 100,000 customers who have by now caved in under the pressure of Mr. Harden and his banner-bearing colleagues are doing much browsing in these upland pastures?" Check date values in: |date=(help) 11. ^ Mortimer J. Adler (1990). The Great Conversation (2nd edition ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. pp. 33–34 for discussion of new translations, pp.74–98 for reading plans and guides. ISBN 0-85229-531-6. 12. ^ Mortimer J. Adler (1990). "Section 1: The Great Books and the Great Ideas". The Great Conversation (2nd edition ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. p. 27. ISBN 0-85229-531-6.

External links Official Britannica web page for the Great Books (http://britannicashop.britannica.co.uk/epages/Store.sf/Shops/Britannicashop/Products/ENC_BOOK_0123. html) Center for the Study of the Great Ideas (http://www.thegreatideas.org/index.html) Mortimer Adler web pages with extensive discussion of the Great Books The Great Conversation: Confessions of an Eavesdropper (http://readingthegreat.com/) – a blog detailing the experiences of reading through the great books of the Western World. Greater Books (http://www.greaterbooks.com) - a site documenting lists of "great books," classics, canons, including the Great Books of the Western World Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Great_Books_of_the_Western_World&oldid=638398068" Categories: Series of books 1952 Encyclopædia Britannica This page was last modified on 16 December 2014 at 20:15. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

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