Britannica Great Books of the Western World Complete Set 54+ Volumes

Description: Up for your consideration this Britannica Great Books of the Western World complete set: 54 volumes + 2 extra - The Great Ideas Today 1991 & 1992. All books are like new, they were removed from original wrapping, but most of them had never been even opened. There is no better way to own and appreciate the world's greatest written works. Great Books of the Western World is one of the most acclaimed publishing feats of our time. Authoritative, accurate, and complete, this collection represents the essential core of the Western literary canon, compiling over 500 the most significant achievements in literature, history, philosophy, and science into a color-coded set as handsome as it is affordable. From the ancient classics to the masterpieces of the Victorian era and 20th century, Great Books traces the ideas, stories, and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. Volume 1 of this collection is The Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors. Volumes 2 and 3 is The Syntopicon, a unique two-volume guide 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 encyclopedia accomplishes for facts. The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, worked with Mortimer Adler to develop there a course of a type originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921, with the innovation of a "round table" approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates. The purposes they had in mind were for filling the gaps in their liberal education (including Hutchins' own, self-confessed gaps) and to render the reader an intellectually rounded man or woman familiar with the Great Books of the Western canon and knowledgeable of the Great Ideas visited in the "Great Conversation" over the course of three millennia. First edition, published in 54 volumes, of The Great Books of the Western World covers categories including fiction, history, poetry, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, drama, politics, religion, economics, and ethics. Hutchins wrote the first volume, titled The Great Conversation, as an introduction and discourse on liberal education. Adler sponsored the next two volumes, "The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon", 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 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 grouped the topics into 102 chapters, for which Adler wrote the 102 introductions. Four colors identify each volume by subject area—Imaginative Literature, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, History and Social Science, and Philosophy and Theology. The set includes following volumes - authors:Volume 1 - The Great ConversationVolume 2 - Syntopicon I: Angel, Animal, Aristocracy, Art, Astronomy, Beauty, Being, Cause, Chance, Change, Citizen, Constitution, Courage, Custom and Convention, Definition, Democracy, Desire, Dialectic, Duty, Education, Element, Emotion, Eternity, Evolution, Experience, Family, Fate, Form, God, Good and Evil, Government, Habit, Happiness, History, Honor, Hypothesis, Idea, Immortality, Induction, Infinity, Judgment, Justice, Knowledge, Labor, Language, Law, Liberty, Life and Death, Logic, and LoveVolume 3 - Syntopicon II: Man, Mathematics, Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memory and Imagination, Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy, Nature, Necessity and Contingency, Oligarchy, One and Many, Opinion, Opposition, Philosophy, Physics, Pleasure and Pain, Poetry, Principle, Progress, Prophecy, Prudence, Punishment, Quality, Quantity, Reasoning, Relation, Religion, Revolution, Rhetoric, Same and Other, Science, Sense, Sign and Symbol, Sin, Slavery, Soul, Space, State, Temperance, Theology, Time, Truth, Tyranny, Universal and Particular, Virtue and Vice, War and Peace, Wealth, Will, Wisdom, and WorldVolume 4 - Homer (rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler)Volume 5 - Aeschylus (translated into English verse by G.M. Cookson), Sophocles (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb)Euripides (translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge), Aristophanes (translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers)Volume 6 - Herodotus, ThucydidesVolume 7 - PlatoVolume 8 - Aristotle IVolume 9 - Aristotle IIVolume 10 - Hippocrates, GalenVolume 11 - Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga, Nicomachus of GerasaVolume 12 - Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus AureliusVolume 13 - Virgil (translated into English verse by James Rhoades)Volume 14 - PlutarchVolume 15 - P. Cornelius Tacitus (translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb)Volume 16 - Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)Volume 17 - PlotinusVolume 18 - Augustine of HippoVolume 19 - Thomas Aquinas IVolume 20 - Thomas Aquinas IIVolume 21 - Dante AlighieriVolume 22 - Geoffrey ChaucerVolume 23 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas HobbesVolume 24 - François RabelaisVolume 25 - Michel Eyquem de MontaigneVolume 26 - William Shakespeare IVolume 27 - William Shakespeare IIVolume 28 - William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William HarveysVolume 29 - Miguel de CervantesVolume 30 - Sir Francis BaconVolume 31 - René Descartes, Benedict de SpinozaVolume 32 - John MiltonVolume 33 - Blaise PascalVolume 34 - Sir Isaac Newton, Christiaan HuygensVolume 35 - John Locke, George Berkeley, David HumeVolume 36 - Jonathan Swift, Laurence SterneVolume 37 - Henry FieldingVolume 38 - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques RousseauVolume 39 - Adam SmithVolume 40 - Edward Gibbon IVolume 41 - Edward Gibbon IIVolume 42 - Immanuel KantVolume 43 - American State Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, John Stuart MillVolume 44 - James BoswellVolume 45 - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Michael FaradayVolume 46 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelVolume 47 - Johann Wolfgang von GoetheVolume 48 - Herman MelvilleVolume 49 - Charles DarwinVolume 50 - Karl Marx, Friedrich EngelsVolume 51 - Count Leo TolstoyVolume 52 - Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyVolume 53 - William JamesVolume 54 - Sigmund FreudThe Great Ideas Today 1991The Great Ideas Today 1992 I found no significant condition issues with this set, but signs of previous use and ownership should be expected consistent with its antique timeline and should be taken into consideration with age and ownership. 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