Great Books of the Western World series

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The Great Books of the Western World series is a curated collection of classic works of literature, philosophy, science, and political thought intended to represent the core intellectual tradition of Western civilization.

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book series
aim to present the core intellectual tradition of Western civilization
countryOfOrigin United States
editor Mortimer J. Adler
linked to: Mortimer Adler

Robert Maynard Hutchins
educationalPhilosophy Great Books education
genre literature
philosophy
political thought
science
hasEdition 1952 first edition
1990 second edition
hasPart Candide by Voltaire
linked to: Candide

Capital by Karl Marx
linked to: Das Kapital

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Dialogues of Plato
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
linked to: Don Quixote

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
linked to: Moby-Dick

Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton
Psychoanalytic works of Sigmund Freud
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
linked to: Summa Theologiae

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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Federalist Papers
The Holy Bible
linked to: Bible

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
linked to: War and Peace

Works of Aeschylus
Works of Apollonius of Perga
Works of Archimedes
Works of Aristotle
Works of Augustine of Hippo
Works of Euclid
linked to: Euclid's Elements

Works of Euripides
linked to: Euripidean corpus

Works of Francis Bacon
Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Works of Homer
linked to: Homeric epics

Works of John Locke
linked to: John Locke

Works of Lucretius
linked to: De rerum natura

Works of Niccolò Machiavelli
Works of Nicomachus of Gerasa
Works of Plutarch
Works of Sophocles
Works of Tacitus
Works of Virgil
linked to: Virgil

Works of William Shakespeare
inception 1952
language English
notableEditor Mortimer J. Adler
linked to: Mortimer Adler

Robert Maynard Hutchins
publisher Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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