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The Great Books Of The Western World
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Author : Paul F. Kisak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-08
The Great Books Of The Western World written by Paul F. Kisak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-08 with categories.
This 2 volume set gives a synopsis of more than 500 of these Great Books of The Western World by 161 authors which originally consisted of over 6 feet of books in 54 volumes.The Great Books of Western The Western World are books that are thought to constitute an essential foundation in the literature of Western culture. Specified sets of great books typically range from 100 to 150, though they differ according to purpose and context. For instance, some lists are built to be read by undergraduates in a college semester system (130 books, Torrey Honors Institute), some are compiled to be sold as a single set of volumes (500 books, Mortimer Adler), while some lists aim at a thorough literary criticism (2,400 books, Harold Bloom).The great books are those that tradition, and various institutions and authorities, have regarded as constituting or best expressing the foundations of Western culture (the Western canon is a similar but broader designation); derivatively the term also refers to a curriculum or method of education based around a list of such books. Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list:* the book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times;* the book is inexhaustible; it can be read again and again with benefit; "This is an exacting criterion, an ideal that is fully attained by only a small number of the 511 works that we selected. It is approximated in varying degrees by the rest." * the book is relevant to a large number of the great ideas and great issues that have occupied the minds of thinking individuals for the last 25 centuries. The Great Books of the Western World is a hardcover 60-volume collection (originally 54 volumes) of the books on the great books list (about 517 individual works). Many of the books in the collection were translated into English for the first time.This book is designed to be a state of the art, superb academic reference work and provide an overview of the topic and give the reader a structured knowledge to familiarize yourself with the topic at the most affordable price possible.The accuracy and knowledge is of an international viewpoint as the edited articles represent the inputs of many knowledgeable individuals and some of the most current knowledge on the topic, based on the date of publication.
Great Books Of The Western World
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Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Great Books Of The Western World written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Literature categories.
Great Books Of The Western World
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language : en
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Release Date : 1952
Great Books Of The Western World written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Literature categories.
The Great Ideas
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Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 1999
The Great Ideas written by Mortimer Jerome Adler and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Great books of the Western world categories.
Previously published: New York : Macmillan, 1992.
A Great Idea At The Time
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Author : Alex Beam
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2010-09
A Great Idea At The Time written by Alex Beam and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09 with History categories.
Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial ''dead white men,'' are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago, began as an educational movement, and evolved into a successful marketing idea. Why did a million American households buy books by Hippocrates and Nicomachus from door-to-door salesmen? And how and why did the great books fall out of fashion? In A Great Idea at the Time Alex Beam explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age. Populated with memorable characters, A Great Idea at the Time will leave readers asking themselves: Have I read Lucretius's De Rerum Natura lately? If not, why not?
Great Books Of The Western World Shakespeare
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Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Great Books Of The Western World Shakespeare written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Literature categories.
For contents, see Title Catalog.
The Great Books Of The Western World
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Author : Paul F. Kisak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-08
The Great Books Of The Western World written by Paul F. Kisak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-08 with categories.
This 2 volume set gives a synopsis of more than 500 of these Great Books of The Western World by 161 authors which originally consisted of over 6 feet of books in 54 volumes.The Great Books of Western The Western World are books that are thought to constitute an essential foundation in the literature of Western culture. Specified sets of great books typically range from 100 to 150, though they differ according to purpose and context. For instance, some lists are built to be read by undergraduates in a college semester system (130 books, Torrey Honors Institute), some are compiled to be sold as a single set of volumes (500 books, Mortimer Adler), while some lists aim at a thorough literary criticism (2,400 books, Harold Bloom).The great books are those that tradition, and various institutions and authorities, have regarded as constituting or best expressing the foundations of Western culture (the Western canon is a similar but broader designation); derivatively the term also refers to a curriculum or method of education based around a list of such books. Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list:* the book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times;* the book is inexhaustible; it can be read again and again with benefit; "This is an exacting criterion, an ideal that is fully attained by only a small number of the 511 works that we selected. It is approximated in varying degrees by the rest." * the book is relevant to a large number of the great ideas and great issues that have occupied the minds of thinking individuals for the last 25 centuries.This book is designed to be a state of the art, superb academic reference work and provide an overview of the topic and give the reader a structured knowledge to familiarize yourself with the topic at the most affordable price possible.The accuracy and knowledge is of an international viewpoint as the edited articles represent the inputs of many knowledgeable individuals and some of the most current knowledge on the topic, based on the date of publication.
Great Books Of The Western World Hegel
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Great Books Of The Western World Hegel written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Literature categories.
The Great Ideas Today 1970
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Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Great Ideas Today 1970 written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Revolutions categories.
Great Books Of The Western World Marx
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Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Great Books Of The Western World Marx written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Literature categories.
For contents, see Title Catalog.