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Great Books of The Western World, 60 Volumes. Latest Edition and Brand New, in Original Boxes.
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From the ancient classics to the masterpieces of the 20th century, the Great Books are all the introduction you’ll ever need to the ideas, stories and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. This collection of 517 classics in 60 beautifully bound volumes is color-coded into four subject categories: literature, history, philosophy, and science. And since this edition includes works from 20th century authors, it’s the most up-to-date collection of the Great Books ever.
Product Details
Reading and understanding great works by history’s outstanding minds has always been considered the substance of a liberal education. The Great Books of the Western World has been acclaimed as the greatest publishing venture of the 20th Century. The set now consists of 60 volumes, with 517 works by 130 authors spanning 30 centuries, on a total of 37,000 pages containing 29 million words. Among the Great Books` 130 authors, 47 are writers of imaginative literature; 29 are masters of mathematics and/or the natural sciences; 28 are historians or social scientists, and 28 or more are philosophers and/or theologians. (This totals 132 because William James and Alfred North Whitehead have made contributions in both of the latter two subject categories).
Volume Details
Volumes 1 and 2 of this collection is the Syntopicon, a unique two-volume guide (not sold separately) that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it. The Syntopicon comprises a new kind of reference work -- accomplishing for ideas what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopaedia accomplishes for facts. Also included is the Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors.
The following are samples of great thoughts through the ages:
5th Century B.C. - Euripides
"--our ancestors handled these matters well by banning their murderers from public sight, forbidding them to meet or speak to anyone. But the point is this: they purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge."
--- Orestes
17th Century -- Locke
"Every man in the state of Nature has the power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury -- and also to secure men from the attempts of a criminal who -- hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind."
---Concerning Civil Government
20th Century -- Shaw
"--the human fact remains that the burning of Joan of Arc was a horror, and that a historian who would defend it would defend anything. The final criticism of its physical side is implied in refusal of the Marquesas islanders to be persuaded that the English did not eat Joan. Why, they ask, should anyone take the trouble to roast a human being except with that object? They cannot conceive its being a pleasure. As we have no answer for them that is not shameful to us, let us blush for our more complicated and pretentious savagery--"
Special colors on the Great Books` spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas:
GREEN: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, and Poetry
Volume 3
Homer
Volume 4
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Aristophanes
Volume 12
Virgil
Volume 19
Dante, Chaucer
Volume 22
Rabelais
Volume 24
Shakespeare l
Volume 25
Shakespeare ll
Volume 27
Cervantes
Volume 29
Milton
Volume 31
Molière, Racine
Volume 34
Swift, Voltaire, Diderot
Volume 45
Goethe, Balzac
Volume 46
Austen, George Eliot
Volume 47
Dickens
Volume 48
Melville, Twain
Volume 51
Tolstoy
Volume 52
Dostoevsky, Ibsen
Volume 59
Henry James, Shaw, Conrad, Chekhov, Pirandello, Proust, Cather, Mann, Joyce
Volume 60
Woolf, Kafka, Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, O`Neill, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Brecht, Hemingway, Orwell, Beckett
RED: Philosophy and Religion
Volume 6
Plato
Volume 7
Aristotle l
Volume 8
Aristotle ll
Volume 11
Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus
Volume 16
Augustine
Volume 17
Aquinas l
Volume 18
Aquinas ll
Volume 20
Calvin
Volume 28
Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza
Volume 30
Pascal
Volume 33
Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Volume 39
Kant
Volume 43
Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche
Volume 55
William James, Bergson, Dewey, Whitehead, Russell, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Barth
BLUE: History, Politics, Economics, and Ethics
Volume 5
Herodotus, Thucydides
Volume 13
Plutarch
Volume 14
Tacitus
Volume 21
Machiavelli, Hobbes
Volume 23
Erasmus, Montaigne
Volume 35
Montesquieu, Rousseau
Volume 36
Adam Smith
Volume 37
Gibbon l
Volume 38
Gibbon ll
olume 40
J. S. Mill
Volume 41
Boswell
Volume 44
Tocqueville
Volume 50
Marx, Engels
Volume 57
Veblen, Tawney, Keynes
Volume 58
Frazer, Weber, Huizinga, Levi-Strauss
GREY: Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Volume 9
Hippocrates, Galen
Volume 10
Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus
Volume 15
Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
Volume 26
Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey
Volume 32
Newton, Huygens
Volume 42
Lavoisier, Faraday
Volume 49
Darwin
Volume 53
William James
Volume 54
Freud
Volume 56
Poincare, Planck, Whitehead, Einstein, Eddington, Bohr, Hardy, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Dobzhansky, Waddington
From the ancient classics to the masterpieces of the 20th century, the Great Books are all the introduction you’ll ever need to the ideas, stories and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. This collection of 517 classics in 60 beautifully bound volumes is color-coded into four subject categories: literature, history, philosophy, and science. And since this edition includes works from 20th century authors, it’s the most up-to-date collection of the Great Books ever.
Product Details
Reading and understanding great works by history’s outstanding minds has always been considered the substance of a liberal education. The Great Books of the Western World has been acclaimed as the greatest publishing venture of the 20th Century. The set now consists of 60 volumes, with 517 works by 130 authors spanning 30 centuries, on a total of 37,000 pages containing 29 million words. Among the Great Books` 130 authors, 47 are writers of imaginative literature; 29 are masters of mathematics and/or the natural sciences; 28 are historians or social scientists, and 28 or more are philosophers and/or theologians. (This totals 132 because William James and Alfred North Whitehead have made contributions in both of the latter two subject categories).
Volume Details
Volumes 1 and 2 of this collection is the Syntopicon, a unique two-volume guide (not sold separately) that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it. The Syntopicon comprises a new kind of reference work -- accomplishing for ideas what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopaedia accomplishes for facts. Also included is the Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors.
The following are samples of great thoughts through the ages:
5th Century B.C. - Euripides
"--our ancestors handled these matters well by banning their murderers from public sight, forbidding them to meet or speak to anyone. But the point is this: they purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge."
--- Orestes
17th Century -- Locke
"Every man in the state of Nature has the power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury -- and also to secure men from the attempts of a criminal who -- hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind."
---Concerning Civil Government
20th Century -- Shaw
"--the human fact remains that the burning of Joan of Arc was a horror, and that a historian who would defend it would defend anything. The final criticism of its physical side is implied in refusal of the Marquesas islanders to be persuaded that the English did not eat Joan. Why, they ask, should anyone take the trouble to roast a human being except with that object? They cannot conceive its being a pleasure. As we have no answer for them that is not shameful to us, let us blush for our more complicated and pretentious savagery--"
Special colors on the Great Books` spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas:
GREEN: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, and Poetry
Volume 3
Homer
Volume 4
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Aristophanes
Volume 12
Virgil
Volume 19
Dante, Chaucer
Volume 22
Rabelais
Volume 24
Shakespeare l
Volume 25
Shakespeare ll
Volume 27
Cervantes
Volume 29
Milton
Volume 31
Molière, Racine
Volume 34
Swift, Voltaire, Diderot
Volume 45
Goethe, Balzac
Volume 46
Austen, George Eliot
Volume 47
Dickens
Volume 48
Melville, Twain
Volume 51
Tolstoy
Volume 52
Dostoevsky, Ibsen
Volume 59
Henry James, Shaw, Conrad, Chekhov, Pirandello, Proust, Cather, Mann, Joyce
Volume 60
Woolf, Kafka, Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, O`Neill, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Brecht, Hemingway, Orwell, Beckett
RED: Philosophy and Religion
Volume 6
Plato
Volume 7
Aristotle l
Volume 8
Aristotle ll
Volume 11
Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus
Volume 16
Augustine
Volume 17
Aquinas l
Volume 18
Aquinas ll
Volume 20
Calvin
Volume 28
Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza
Volume 30
Pascal
Volume 33
Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Volume 39
Kant
Volume 43
Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche
Volume 55
William James, Bergson, Dewey, Whitehead, Russell, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Barth
BLUE: History, Politics, Economics, and Ethics
Volume 5
Herodotus, Thucydides
Volume 13
Plutarch
Volume 14
Tacitus
Volume 21
Machiavelli, Hobbes
Volume 23
Erasmus, Montaigne
Volume 35
Montesquieu, Rousseau
Volume 36
Adam Smith
Volume 37
Gibbon l
Volume 38
Gibbon ll
olume 40
J. S. Mill
Volume 41
Boswell
Volume 44
Tocqueville
Volume 50
Marx, Engels
Volume 57
Veblen, Tawney, Keynes
Volume 58
Frazer, Weber, Huizinga, Levi-Strauss
GREY: Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Volume 9
Hippocrates, Galen
Volume 10
Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus
Volume 15
Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
Volume 26
Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey
Volume 32
Newton, Huygens
Volume 42
Lavoisier, Faraday
Volume 49
Darwin
Volume 53
William James
Volume 54
Freud
Volume 56
Poincare, Planck, Whitehead, Einstein, Eddington, Bohr, Hardy, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Dobzhansky, Waddington
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