Lista - Great Books of the Western World

Volumes
Originally published in 54 volumes, 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 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 volumes contained the following works:
Volume 1
 The Great Conversation
Volume 2
 Syntopicon I: Angel, Animal, Aristocracy, Art, Astronomy, Beauty, Bein
g, Cause, Chance, Change, Citizen, Constitution, Courage, Custom a
nd Convention, Definition, Democracy, Desire, Dialectic, Duty, Educati
on, Element, Emotion, Eternity, Evolution, Experience, Family, Fate, F
orm, God, Good and Evil, Government, Habit, Happiness, History, Ho
nor, Hypothesis, Idea, Immortality, Induction, Infinity, Judgment, Justic
e, Knowledge, Labor, Language, Law, Liberty, Life and Death, Logic,
and Love
Volume 3
 Syntopicon II: Man, Mathematics, Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memo
ry and Imagination, Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy, Nature, Necessity
and Contingency, Oligarchy, One and Many, Opinion, Opposition, Phil
osophy, Physics, Pleasure and Pain, Poetry, Principle, Progress, Prop
hecy, 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 World
Volume 4
 Homer (rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler)
 The Iliad
 The Odyssey

Volume 5
 Aeschylus (translated into English verse by G.M. Cookson)
 The Suppliant Maidens
 The Persians
 Seven Against Thebes
 Prometheus Bound
 The Oresteia
 Agamemnon
 Choephoroe
 The Eumenides
 Sophocles (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb)
 The Oedipus Cycle
 Oedipus the King
 Oedipus at Colonus
 Antigone
 Ajax
 Electra
 The Trachiniae
 Philoctetes
 Euripides (translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge)
 Rhesus
 Medea
 Hippolytus
 Alcestis
 Heracleidae
 The Suppliants
 Trojan Women
 Ion
 Helen
 Andromache
 Electra
 Bacchantes
 Hecuba
 Heracles Mad
 Phoenician Women
 Orestes
 Iphigeneia in Tauris
  Iphigeneia at Aulis
 Cyclops
 Aristophanes (translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley
Rogers)
 The Acharnians
 The Knights
 The Clouds
 The Wasps
 Peace
 The Birds
 The Frogs
 Lysistrata
 Thesmophoriazusae
 Ecclesiazousae
 Plutus

Volume 6
 Herodotus
 The History (translated by George Rawlinson)
 Thucydides
 History of the Peloponnesian War (translated by Richard
Crawley and revised by R. Feetham)
Volume 7
 Plato
 The Dialogues (translated by Benjamin Jowett)
 Charmides
 Lysis
 Laches
 Protagoras
 Euthydemus
 Cratylus
 Phaedrus
 Ion
 Symposium
 Meno
 Euthyphro
 Apology
 Crito
 Phaedo
 Gorgias
 The Republic
  Timaeus
 Critias
 Parmenides
 Theaetetus
 Sophist
 Statesman
 Philebus
 Laws
 The Seventh Letter (translated by J. Harward)
Volume 8
 Aristotle
 Categories
 On Interpretation
 Prior Analytics
 Posterior Analytics
 Topics
 Sophistical Refutations
 Physics
 On the Heavens
 On Generation and Corruption
 Meteorology
 Metaphysics
 On the Soul
 Minor biological works

Volume 9
 Aristotle
 History of Animals
 Parts of Animals
 On the Motion of Animals
 On the Gait of Animals
 On the Generation of Animals
 Nicomachean Ethics
 Politics
 The Athenian Constitution
 Rhetoric
 Poetics

Volume 10
 Hippocrates
 Works
 Galen
 On the Natural Faculties

Volume 11
 Euclid
 The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
 Archimedes
 On the Sphere and Cylinder
 Measurement of a Circle
 On Conoids and Spheroids
 On Spirals
 On the Equilibrium of Planes
 The Sand Reckoner
 The Quadrature of the Parabola
 On Floating Bodies
 Book of Lemmas
 The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
 Apollonius of Perga
 On Conic Sections
 Nicomachus of Gerasa
 Introduction to Arithmetic

Volume 12
 Lucretius
 On the Nature of Things (translated by H.A.J. Munro)
 Epictetus
 The Discourses (translated by George Long)
 Marcus Aurelius
 The Meditations (translated by George Long)

Volume 13
 Virgil
 Eclogues
 Georgics
 Aeneid

Volume 14
 Plutarch
 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

Volume 15
 P. Cornelius Tacitus (translated by Alfred John Church and William
Jackson Brodribb)
 The Annals
 The Histories

Volume 16
 Ptolemy
 Almagest, (translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro)
 Nicolaus Copernicus
 On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (translated by Charles
Glenn Wallis)
 Johannes Kepler (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)
 Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV–V)
 The Harmonies of the World (Book V)

Volume 17
 Plotinus
 The Six Enneads

Volume 18
 Augustine of Hippo
 The Confessions
 The City of God
 On Christian Doctrine

Volume 19
 Thomas Aquinas
 Summa Theologica (First part complete, selections from second
part, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican
Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)
Volume 20
 Thomas Aquinas
 Summa Theologica (Selections from second and third parts and
supplement, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican
Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)
Volume 21
 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy (Translated by Charles Eliot Norton)

Volume 22
 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde
 The Canterbury Tales

Volume 23
 Niccolò Machiavelli
 The Prince
 Thomas Hobbes
 Leviathan

Volume 24
 François Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel

Volume 25
 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays

Volume 26
 William Shakespeare
 The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
 The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
 The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
 The Tragedy of Richard the Third
 The Comedy of Errors
 Titus Andronicus
 The Taming of the Shrew
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
 Love's Labour's Lost
 Romeo and Juliet
 The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
 A Midsummer Night's Dream
 The Life and Death of King John
 The Merchant of Venice
 The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
 The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
 Much Ado About Nothing
 The Life of King Henry the Fifth
 Julius Caesar
 As You Like It

Volume 27
 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
 The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
 The Merry Wives of Windsor
 Troilus and Cressida
 All's Well That Ends Well
 Measure for Measure
 Othello, the Moor of Venice
 King Lear
 Macbeth
 Antony and Cleopatra
 Coriolanus
 Timon of Athens
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre
 Cymbeline
 The Winter's Tale
 The Tempest
 The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
 Sonnets

Volume 28
 William Gilbert
 On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
 Galileo Galilei
 Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
 William Harvey
 On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
 On the Circulation of Blood
 On the Generation of Animals

Volume 29
 Miguel de Cervantes
 The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Volume 30
 Sir Francis Bacon
 The Advancement of Learning
 Novum Organum
 New Atlantis

Volume 31
 René Descartes
  Rules for the Direction of the Mind
 Discourse on the Method
 Meditations on First Philosophy
 Objections Against the Meditations and Replies
 The Geometry
 Benedict de Spinoza
 Ethics

Volume 32
 John Milton
 English Minor Poems
 Paradise Lost
 Samson Agonistes
 Areopagitica

Volume 33
 Blaise Pascal
 The Provincial Letters
 Pensées
 Scientific and mathematical essays

Volume 34
 Sir Isaac Newton
 Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
 Optics
 Christian Huygens
 Treatise on Light

Volume 35
 John Locke
 A Letter Concerning Toleration
 Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
 George Berkeley
 The Principles of Human Knowledge
 David Hume
 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Volume 36
 Jonathan Swift
 Gulliver's Travels
 Laurence Sterne
 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Volume 37
 Henry Fielding
 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Volume 38
 Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
 The Spirit of the Laws
 Jean Jacques Rousseau
 A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
 A Discourse on Political Economy
 The Social Contract

Volume 39
 Adam Smith
 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Volume 40
 Edward Gibbon
 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 1)

Volume 41
 Edward Gibbon
 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 2)

Volume 42
 Immanuel Kant
 Critique of Pure Reason
 Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
 Critique of Practical Reason
 Excerpts from The Metaphysics of Morals
 Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of
Ethics with a note on Conscience
 General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals
 The Science of Right
 The Critique of Judgement

Volume 43
 American State Papers
  Declaration of Independence
 Articles of Confederation
 The Constitution of the United States of America
 Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
 The Federalist
 John Stuart Mill
 On Liberty
 Considerations on Representative Government
 Utilitarianism

Volume 44
 James Boswell
 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Volume 45
 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
 Elements of Chemistry
 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
 Analytical Theory of Heat
 Michael Faraday
 Experimental Researches in Electricity

Volume 46
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
 The Philosophy of Right
 The Philosophy of History

Volume 47
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 Faust

Volume 48
 Herman Melville
 Moby Dick; or, The Whale

Volume 49
 Charles Darwin
 The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Volume 50
 Karl Marx
 Capital
 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
 Manifesto of the Communist Party

Volume 51
 Count Leo Tolstoy
 War and Peace

Volume 52
 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
 The Brothers Karamazov

Volume 53
 William James
 The Principles of Psychology

Volume 54
 Sigmund Freud
 The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
 Selected Papers on Hysteria
 The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
 The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
 Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis
 The Interpretation of Dreams
 On Narcissism
 Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
 Repression
 The Unconscious
 A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
 Beyond the Pleasure Principle
 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
 The Ego and the Id
 Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
 Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
 Civilization and Its Discontents
 New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

Second edition
The second edition of Great Books of the Western World, 1990, saw an
increase from 54 to 60 volumes, with updated translations. The six new
volumes concerned the 20th century, an era of which the first edition's
sole representative was Freud. Some of the other volumes were re-
arranged, with even more pre-20th century material added but with four
texts deleted: Apollonius' On Conic Sections, Laurence Sterne's Tristram
Shandy, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and Joseph Fourier's Analytical
Theory of Heat. Adler later expressed regret about dropping On Conic
Sections and Tom Jones. Adler also voiced disagreement with the
addition of Voltaire's Candide, and said that the Syntopicon should have
included references to the Koran. He addressed criticisms that the set
was too heavily Western European and did not adequately represent
women and minority authors.
The added pre-20th century texts appear in these volumes (some of the
accompanying content of these volumes differs from the first edition
volume of that number):
Volume 20
 John Calvin
 Institutes of the Christian Religion (Selections)

Volume 23
 Erasmus
 The Praise of Folly

Volume 31
 Molière
 The School for Wives
 The Critique of the School for Wives
 Tartuffe
 Don Juan
 The Miser
 The Would-Be Gentleman
 The Imaginary Invalid
 Jean Racine
 Bérénice
 Phèdre

Volume 34
 Voltaire
 Candide
 Denis Diderot
 Rameau's Nephew

Volume 43
 Søren Kierkegaard
 Fear and Trembling
 Friedrich Nietzsche
 Beyond Good and Evil

Volume 44
 Alexis de Tocqueville
 Democracy in America

Volume 45
 Honoré de Balzac
 Cousin Bette

Volume 46
 Jane Austen
 Emma
 George Eliot
 Middlemarch

Volume 47
 Charles Dickens
 Little Dorrit

Volume 48
 Mark Twain
 Huckleberry Finn

Volume 52
 Henrik Ibsen
 A Doll's House
 The Wild Duck
 Hedda Gabler
 The Master Builder

The contents of the six volumes of added 20th-century material:

Volume 55
 William James
 Pragmatism
 Henri Bergson
 "An Introduction to Metaphysics"
 John Dewey
 Experience and Education
 Alfred North Whitehead
 Science and the Modern World
 Bertrand Russell
 The Problems of Philosophy
 Martin Heidegger
 What Is Metaphysics?
 Ludwig Wittgenstein
 Philosophical Investigations
 Karl Barth
 The Word of God and the Word of Man

Volume 56
 Henri Poincaré
 Science and Hypothesis
 Max Planck
 Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
 Alfred North Whitehead
 An Introduction to Mathematics
 Albert Einstein
 Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
 Arthur Eddington
 The Expanding Universe
 Niels Bohr
 Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections)
 Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology
 G. H. Hardy
 A Mathematician's Apology
 Werner Heisenberg
 Physics and Philosophy
 Erwin Schrödinger
 What Is Life?
 Theodosius Dobzhansky
 Genetics and the Origin of Species
 C. H. Waddington
 The Nature of Life

Volume 57
 Thorstein Veblen
 The Theory of the Leisure Class
 R. H. Tawney
  The Acquisitive Society
 John Maynard Keynes
 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

Volume 58
 Sir James George Frazer
 The Golden Bough (selections)
 Max Weber
 Essays in Sociology (selections)
 Johan Huizinga
 The Autumn of the Middle Ages
 Claude Lévi-Strauss
 Structural Anthropology (selections)

Volume 59
 Henry James
 The Beast in the Jungle
 George Bernard Shaw
 Saint Joan
 Joseph Conrad
 Heart of Darkness
 Anton Chekhov
 Uncle Vanya
 Luigi Pirandello
 Six Characters in Search of an Author
 Marcel Proust
 Remembrance of Things Past: "Swann in Love"
 Willa Cather
 A Lost Lady
 Thomas Mann
 Death in Venice
 James Joyce
 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Volume 60
 Virginia Woolf
 To the Lighthouse
 Franz Kafka
 The Metamorphosis
 D. H. Lawrence
 The Prussian Officer
 T. S. Eliot
  The Waste Land
 Eugene O'Neill
 Mourning Becomes Electra
 F. Scott Fitzgerald
 The Great Gatsby
 William Faulkner
 A Rose for Emily
 Bertolt Brecht
 Mother Courage and Her Children
 Ernest Hemingway
 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
 George Orwell
 Animal Farm
 Samuel Beckett
 Waiting for Godot