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Great books of the Western world /
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Chicago :
Encyclopaedia Britannica,
c1990.
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| Edición: | 2a ed. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas
- 3. The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer
- 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
- 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides
- 6. The dialogues of Plaato. The seventh letter
- 7-8. The works of Aristotle
- 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen
- 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus
- 11. The way things are / Lucretius. The discourses of Epictetus. The meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The six Enneads / Plotinus
- 15. The almagest / Ptolemy. On the revolutions of the heavenly sphe- res / Nicolaus Copernicus. Epito- me of Copernican astronomy, IV-V ; The harmonies of the world, V / Johannes Kepler
- 19. The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri. Troilus and Criseyde ; The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer
- 21. The prince / Nicoló Machiavelli. Leviathan, or, Matter, form, and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiastical and civil / Thomas Hobbes
- 23. Praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus. The essays / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- 26. On the loadstone and magnetic bodies / William Gilbert. Concerning the two new sciences / Galileo Galilei. On the motion of the heart and blood in animals ; On the circulation of the blood ; On the generation of animals / William Harvey
- 28. Advancement of learning ; Novum organum ; New Atlantis / Sir Francis Bacon. Rules for the direction of the mind ; Discourse on the method ; Meditations on first philosophy ; Objections against the meditations and replies ; The geometry / Ren{lstrok} Descartes. Ethics / Benedict de Spinoza
- 31. The school for wives ; The critique of the School for wives ; Tartuffe ; Don Juan ; The miser ; The world-be gentleman ; The would-be invalid / Moliére. Berenice ; Phaedra / Jean Racine
- 32. Mathematical principles of natural philosophy ; Optics / Sir Isaac Newton. Treatise on light / Christiaan Huygens
- 33. A letter concerning toleration; Concerning civil government, second essay ; An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke. The principles of human knowledge / George Berkeley. An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume
- 34. Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift. Candide / Voltaire. Rameau's nephew / Denis Diderot
- 35. The spirit of laws / Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. On the origin of inequality ; On political economy ; The social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau
- 40. American state papers. The federalist / by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. On liberty ; Representative government ; Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill
- 42. Elements of chemistry / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Experimental researches in electricity / Michael Faraday
- 43. The philosophy of right ; The philosophy of history / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Fear and trembling / Søren Kierkegaard. Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche
- 45. Faust. Parts one and two / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Cousin Bette / Honoré de Balzac
- 46. Emma / Jane Austen. Middlemarch / George Eliot
- 48. Moby Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
- 52. The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A doll's house ; The wild duck ; Hedda Gabler ; The master builder / Henrik Ibsen
- 55. William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Barth
- 56. Henri Poincar{lstrok}, Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Niels Bohr, G.H. Hardy, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Theodosius Dobzhansky, C.H. Waddington
- 57. Thorstein Veblen, R.H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes
- 58. Sir James George Frazer, Max Weber, Johan Huizinga, Claude L{lstrok}vi-Strauss
- 59. Henry James, Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, James Joyce
- 60. Virginia Woolf, Franz Kakfa, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett
- [61] The great conversation : a reader's guide to Great books of the Western world.