Great Books of the Western World: Encyclopedia II - Great Books of the Western World

Published in 54 volumes, The Great Books of the Western World covers topics including fiction, history, poetry, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, drama, politics, religion, economics, and ethics. The first volume, titled The Great Conversation, contains an introduction and discourse on liberal education by Hutchins. The next two volumes, "The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon", were conceived by Adler 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 in all the works 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 were grouped into 102 chapters, for which Adler wrote 102 introductions. The volumes contained the following works:

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 1

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 2

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 3

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 4

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 5

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 6

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 7

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 8

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 9

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 10

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 11

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 12

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 13

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 14

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 15

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 16

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 17

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 18

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 19

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 20

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 21

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 22

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 23

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 24

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 25

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 26

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 27

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 28

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 29

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 30

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 31

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 32

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 33

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 34

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 35

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 36

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 37

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 38

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 39

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 40

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 41

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 42

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 43

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 44

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 45

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 46

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 47

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 48

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 49

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 50

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 51

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 52

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 53

Great Books of the Western World - Volume 54

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