Vintage Great Books Discussion Program: Set Two (Adult Series: Readings for Discussion, 7 Volume Boxed Set)

Language: English

Published by The Great Books Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, 1966

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Complete Set of 7 Great Books Discussion Program (Set Two). Near Fine. 1966. The Great Books Foundation, Illinois. Unmarked. Paperback Books, Volumes 1-7, in publisher slipcase. Vintage set. No markings. All bindings tight, solid & square; covers clean and bright, covers all lie flat. Very Good publisher slipcase, solid, clean bright colors, w/ light edge, corner and shelf wear; no splits. Sixteen unabridged works of Western philosophy, drama & literature for the Foundation's Shared Inquiry seminars, from Plato & Homer to Freud & Mill. Ships in box from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: The Vintage Great Books Discussion Program Set Two comprises a seven-volume boxed set containing sixteen unabridged works of classical literature, science, and Western philosophy. Readers explore foundational ideas across multiple epochs, navigating Sophocles' tragic dramas Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, Plato's dialogic inquiry in Euthyphro, and Aristotle's Ethics. Other prominent selections within the seven books include St. Augustine's Confessions, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Freud's A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Racine's Phaedra, Homer's The Odyssey, Descartes' Discourse on Method, Hobbes' Leviathan, Pascal's Pensees, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Poincare's The Value of Science, Gogol's The Overcoat, and Melville's maritime drama Billy Budd. Textured blue covers feature clean, minimalist typographic designs centered on a stylized high-back chair emblem representing the Shared Inquiry seminar table, housed inside a publisher-designed blue paperboard slipcase, organizing the readings sequentially from Melville and Plato in Volume One to Swift and Gogol in Volume Seven. The Great Books Foundation, based in Chicago, Illinois, published this revised Readings for Discussion edition in 1966. Educators Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler established the nonprofit organization in 1947 to expand University of Chicago-style liberal arts discussion seminars to the broader public. Socratic leaders and educators developed specialized pedagogical techniques, known as Shared Inquiry, to foster collaborative civil discourse through the close study of primary sources.…

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Title
Vintage Great Books Discussion Program: Set Two (Adult Series: Readings for Discussion, 7 Volume Boxed Set)
Author
Various Authors (Melville; Plato; Sophocles; Aristotle; Augustine; Shakespeare; Freud; Racine; Homer; Descartes; Hobbes; Pascal; Mill; Swift; Poincare; Gogol) Illustrators:
Publisher
The Great Books Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
Publication year
1966
Condition
NEAR FINE
Binding
Softcover
Language
English
Item weight
89 ounces
Dimensions
5.25x8
Seller catalogs
Classics, Multi-Volume Book Sets, Philosophy

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