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Coby 50 Years of
Great Books - by Year with Theme |
|
| Year |
Theme |
Author(s) |
Selection |
| 1957a |
Great Issues |
Russell |
A Free Man's Worship |
| 1957b |
Great Issues |
Pascal |
Pensees |
| 1957c |
Great Issues |
Hume |
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion |
| 1957d |
Great Issues |
Kierkegaard |
Fear and Trambling |
| 1957e |
Great Issues |
Buber |
I and Thou |
| 1957f |
Great Issues |
Bible |
Gospel according to Matthew |
| 1958a |
Modern Man & His Religion |
Eliot, T S |
Ash Wednesday |
| 1958b |
Modern Man & His Religion |
Jung |
Modern Man in Search of a Soul |
| 1958c |
Modern Man & His Religion |
Sartre |
The Flies |
| 1958d |
Modern Man & His Religion |
Buber |
Between Man and Man |
| 1958e |
Modern Man & His Religion |
Hesse |
Siddhartha |
| 1958f |
Modern Man & His Religion |
Tillich |
The Religious Situation |
| 1959a |
?? |
Jeffers |
Night |
| 1959b |
?? |
Thomas |
Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night |
| 1959c |
?? |
Malinowski |
Magic, Science and Religion |
| 1959d |
?? |
Schrodinger |
What is Life? |
| 1959e |
?? |
Falkner |
The Bear |
| 1959f |
?? |
Cassirer |
Language and Myth |
| 1960a |
The Republic |
Plato |
The Republic |
| 1961a |
War and Peace |
Various |
Community of Fear |
| 1961b |
War and Peace |
Various |
A World Without War |
| 1961c |
War and Peace |
Homer |
The Iliad |
| 1961d |
War and Peace |
Augustine |
City of God, Part V |
| 1961e |
War and Peace |
Kant |
Perpetual Peace |
| 1961g |
War and Peace |
Freud |
Civilization and Its Discontents |
| 1962a |
Insights into Man |
Cassirer |
Essay on Man |
| 1962b |
Insights into Man |
Chaucer |
Canterbury Tales |
| 1962c |
Insights into Man |
Marlowe |
The Tragedy of Dr Faustus |
| 1962d |
Insights into Man |
Dostoyevsky |
Notes From the Underground |
| 1962e |
Insights into Man |
Aristotle |
Physics |
| 1963a |
The Cardinal Virtues |
Plato |
Protagoras |
| 1963b |
The Cardinal Virtues |
Dante |
Inferno |
| 1963c |
The Cardinal Virtues |
Cervantes |
Don Quixote |
| 1963d |
The Cardinal Virtues |
Franklin |
The Autobiography |
| 1964a |
Ethics |
Stendhal |
The Red and the Black |
| 1964b |
Ethics |
Ibsen |
An Enemy of the People |
| 1964c |
Ethics |
Kant |
Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals |
| 1964d |
Ethics |
Neitzsche |
Beyond Good and Evil |
| 1964e |
Ethics |
Bible |
Deuteronomy |
| 1965a |
Eastern Religions |
Watts |
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones |
| 1965b |
Eastern Religions |
Lao Tzu |
The Way of Life |
| 1965c |
Eastern Religions |
Anonymous |
The Upanishads |
| 1965d |
Eastern Religions |
Confucius |
The Sayings |
| 1965e |
Eastern Religions |
Anonymous |
The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha |
| 1965f |
Eastern Religions |
Otto |
Mysticism East and West |
| 1966a |
Crime and Punishment |
Coleridge |
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner |
| 1966b |
Crime and Punishment |
Dostoyevsky |
Crime and Punishment |
| 1966c |
Crime and Punishment |
Ibsen |
Ghosts |
| 1966d |
Crime and Punishment |
Kafka |
The Trial |
| 1967.. |
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics |
Aristotle |
Nicomachean Ethics |
| 1968a |
The Outsider |
Conrad |
Victory |
| 1968b |
The Outsider |
Hesse |
Steppenwolf |
| 1968c |
The Outsider |
James, Henry |
The Beast in the Jungle |
| 1968d |
The Outsider |
Gide |
Lafcadio's Adventures |
| 1968e |
The Outsider |
Camus |
The Stranger |
| 1969a |
Perceiving the External World |
Moore |
Some Main Problems of Philosophy |
| 1969b |
Perceiving the External World |
Ayer |
The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge |
| 1969c |
Perceiving the External World |
Austin, J L |
Sense and Sensibiliality |
| 1969d |
Perceiving the External World |
Ryle |
The Concept of Mind |
| 1969e |
Perceiving the External World |
Strawson |
Individuals |
| 1970a |
Revolution |
Trotsky |
The Russian Revolution |
| 1970b |
Revolution |
Malraux |
Man's Fate |
| 1970c |
Revolution |
Camus |
The Rebel |
| 1970d |
Revolution |
Fanon |
The Wretched of the Earth |
| 1970e |
Revolution |
Weiss |
Marat-Sade |
| 1971a |
Counter-Culture |
Ginsberg |
Howl |
| 1971b |
Counter-Culture |
Hoffman |
Revolution for the Hell of It |
| 1971c |
Counter-Culture |
Wolfe |
The Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test |
| 1971d |
Counter-Culture |
Laing |
The Politics of Experience |
| 1971e |
Counter-Culture |
Roszak |
The Making of a Counter-Culture |
| 1971f |
Counter-Culture |
Toynbee |
A Study of History |
| 1972a |
Man's Symbols |
Cassirer |
Mythical Thought |
| 1972b |
Man's Symbols |
Neihardt |
Black Elk Speaks |
| 1972c |
Man's Symbols |
Eliade |
Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries |
| 1972d |
Man's Symbols |
Gide |
Theseus |
| 1972e |
Man's Symbols |
Jung |
Memories, Dreams and Reflections |
| 1973a |
The World of Art |
Joyce |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young man |
| 1973b |
The World of Art |
Weiss |
The World of Art |
| 1973c |
The World of Art |
Cassirer |
Mythical Thought |
| 1973d |
The World of Art |
Hemingway |
The Old Man and the Sea |
| 1973e |
The World of Art |
Stevens |
Peter Quince at the Clavier |
| 1973f |
The World of Art |
Van Gogh and Stone |
Dear Theo |
| 1974a |
The World of Shakespeare |
Shakespeare |
Henry V |
| 1974b |
The World of Shakespeare |
Shakespeare |
As You Like It |
| 1974c |
The World of Shakespeare |
Shakespeare |
Measure For Measure |
| 1974d |
The World of Shakespeare |
Shakespeare |
Othello |
| 1974e |
The World of Shakespeare |
Shakespeare |
King Lear |
| 1974f |
The World of Shakespeare |
Shakespeare |
The Tempest |
| 1975a |
In Search of Self |
Plato |
Phado |
| 1975b |
In Search of Self |
Whitman |
Song of Myself |
| 1975c |
In Search of Self |
Freud |
Introduction to Psychoanalysis |
| 1975d |
In Search of Self |
Hesse |
Denian |
| 1975e |
In Search of Self |
Erickson |
Childhood and Society |
| 1976a |
Ways of Life |
Benedict |
Patterns of Culture |
| 1976b |
Ways of Life |
Goodman |
Communitas |
| 1976c |
Ways of Life |
Skinner |
Walden II |
| 1976d |
Ways of Life |
Carey |
The Horse's Mouth |
| 1976e |
Ways of Life |
Chardin |
The Phenomenon of Man |
| 1977a |
Man's Quest |
Buber |
Between Man and Man |
| 1977b |
Man's Quest |
Frankl |
Man's Search for Meaning |
| 1977c |
Man's Quest |
Kafka |
The Castle |
| 1977d |
Man's Quest |
Ibsen |
The Doll's House |
| 1977e |
Man's Quest |
Gilgamesh |
The Epic of Gilgamesh |
| 1977f |
Man's Quest |
Yeats |
Lapis Lazulli |
| 1978a |
The Limits of Reason |
Hamsun |
Mysteries |
| 1978b |
The Limits of Reason |
Jaspers |
Reason and Existenz |
| 1978c |
The Limits of Reason |
Rilke |
The Notebooks of Malte Larids Brigge |
| 1978d |
The Limits of Reason |
Casteneda |
A Separate Reality |
| 1978e |
The Limits of Reason |
Suzukion |
Manual of Zen Buddhism |
| 1979a |
Relationship: A Categorical imperative |
Aristotle |
Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII & IX |
| 1979b |
Relationship: A Categorical imperative |
Sartre |
No Exit |
| 1979c |
Relationship: A Categorical imperative |
Buber |
I and Thou |
| 1979d |
Relationship: A Categorical imperative |
Forster |
A Passage to Indea |
| 1979e |
Relationship: A Categorical imperative |
Bettelheim |
The Empty Fortress |
| 1979f |
Relationship: A Categorical imperative |
Dickinson |
Poems |
| 1980a |
Man and the Sea |
Conrad |
Typhoon |
| 1980b |
Man and the Sea |
Carson |
The Sea Around Us |
| 1980c |
Man and the Sea |
James, William |
Principles of Psychology |
| 1980d |
Man and the Sea |
Apollonius of Rhodes |
The Voyage of the Argo |
| 1980e |
Man and the Sea |
Synge |
Riders to the Sea |
| 1980f |
Man and the Sea |
Arnold |
Dover Beach |
| 1981a |
Modern Visions |
Halkl |
The Hidden Dimension |
| 1981b |
Modern Visions |
Lessing |
Thye Marriages between Zones 3, 4, and 5 |
| 1981c |
Modern Visions |
Goffman |
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life |
| 1981d |
Modern Visions |
Albee |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
| 1981e |
Modern Visions |
Ogden & Richards |
The Meaning of Meaning |
| 1981f |
Modern Visions |
Commings e e |
Poems |
| 1982a |
Communicating across Cultures |
Condo & Seito |
Communicating across Cultures for What? |
| 1982b |
Communicating across Cultures |
Kang |
The Grass Roof |
| 1982c |
Communicating across Cultures |
Levi-Strauss |
Tristes Tropiques |
| 1982d |
Communicating across Cultures |
Marquez |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| 1982e |
Communicating across Cultures |
Fugard |
Boesman and Lena |
| 1982f |
Communicating across Cultures |
Lal |
The Farce of the Drunk Monk |
| 1983a |
Fact and Fancy |
Plato |
Dialogues (selections) |
| 1983b |
Fact and Fancy |
Kant |
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics |
| 1983c |
Fact and Fancy |
Spenser |
The Faerie Queen Book I |
| 1983d |
Fact and Fancy |
Shakespeare |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 1983e |
Fact and Fancy |
Lagerkvist |
The Sybil |
| 1983f |
Fact and Fancy |
Tolkein |
Tree and Leaf |
| 1984a |
Mann's Journey |
Capra |
The Tao of Physics |
| 1984b |
Mann's Journey |
Barrett |
Irrational Man |
| 1984c |
Mann's Journey |
Mann |
The Magic Mountain |
| 1985.. |
The Republic |
Plato |
The Republic |
| 1986a |
The Mind's I |
Meredith |
An Essay on Comedy |
| 1986b |
The Mind's I |
Bergson |
Laughter |
| 1986c |
The Mind's I |
Moliere |
The Misanthrope |
| 1986d |
The Mind's I |
Hofstadter & Dennet |
The Mind's Eye |
| 1987a |
The Family |
Murdock |
Culture and Society |
| 1987b |
The Family |
Verga |
The House by the Medlar Tree |
| 1987c |
The Family |
Laing |
The Politics of the Family |
| 1987d |
The Family |
Forster |
Howard's End |
| 1987e |
The Family |
Pinter |
The Homecoming |
| 1987f |
The Family |
Wordsworth |
Intimations of Immortality |
| 1988a |
Then and Now |
Plato |
Symposium |
| 1988b |
Then and Now |
Tillich |
The Dynamics of Faith |
| 1988c |
Then and Now |
Heisenberg |
Physics and Philosophy |
| 1988d |
Then and Now |
Dostoyevsky |
The Brothers Karamazov |
| 1989a |
Looking Ahead |
Bible |
Ecclesiastes |
| 1989b |
Looking Ahead |
Wilder |
The Skin of Our Teeth |
| 1989c |
Looking Ahead |
Ferguson |
The Aquarian Conspiracy |
| 1989d |
Looking Ahead |
Bohm |
Wholeness and the Implicate Order |
| 1989e |
Looking Ahead |
Spinne |
The Universe is a Green Dragon |
| 1989f |
Looking Ahead |
Heraclitus |
Fragments |
| 1990a |
Knowledge |
Plato |
Theaetetus |
| 1990b |
Knowledge |
Goethe |
Faust, Part I |
| 1990c |
Knowledge |
Freud |
On the Interpretation of Dreams |
| 1990d |
Knowledge |
Whitehead |
The Aims of Education |
| 1990e |
Knowledge |
Buber |
Between Man and Man |
| 1990f |
Knowledge |
Eliot, T S |
Four Quartets |
| 1991a |
Meeting One's Self |
Proust |
Remembrance of Things Past |
| 1991b |
Meeting One's Self |
Shakespeare |
King Lear |
| 1991c |
Meeting One's Self |
Marcus Aurelius |
Meditations |
| 1991d |
Meeting One's Self |
Turgenev |
Fathers and Sons |
| 1991e |
Meeting One's Self |
Woolf |
A Room of One's Own |
| 1992a |
A Different Voice |
De Pissan |
The Treasure of the City of Ladies |
| 1992b |
A Different Voice |
Wollstonecraft |
Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
| 1992c |
A Different Voice |
Woolf |
To the Lighthouse |
| 1992d |
A Different Voice |
De Beauvoir |
The Second Sex |
| 1992e |
A Different Voice |
Gilligan |
In a Different Voice |
| 1992f |
A Different Voice |
Various |
Poetry on a Different Voice |
| 1993a |
Can the Truth Be Learned |
Bible |
Genesis |
| 1993b |
Can the Truth Be Learned |
Plato |
Timaeus |
| 1993c |
Can the Truth Be Learned |
Eiseley |
The Immense Journey |
| 1993d |
Can the Truth Be Learned |
Hegel |
Introduction to the Philosophy of History |
| 1993e |
Can the Truth Be Learned |
Kierkegaard |
Philosophical Fragments |
| 1993f |
Can the Truth Be Learned |
Broch |
The Death of Virgil |
| 1994a |
Solitude |
Storr |
Solitude |
| 1994b |
Solitude |
Defoe |
Robinson Crusoe |
| 1994c |
Solitude |
Emerson |
Society and Solitude; The Transcendentalist |
| 1994d |
Solitude |
Lindbergh |
Gift from the Sea |
| 1994e |
Solitude |
Richards |
Centering |
| 1994f |
Solitude |
Whitman |
Song of Myself |
| 1995a |
Democracy in America |
De Toqueville |
Democracy in America |
| 1995b |
Democracy in America |
James, Henry |
Daisy Miller |
| 1995c |
Democracy in America |
Miller |
Death of a Salesman |
| 1995d |
Democracy in America |
Forster |
Two Cheers for Democracy |
| 1996a |
The Future is an Illusion |
Plato |
Phado |
| 1996b |
The Future is an Illusion |
Dante |
Inferno |
| 1996c |
The Future is an Illusion |
Pico della Mirandola |
Oration on The Dignity of Man |
| 1996d |
The Future is an Illusion |
Freud |
The Future of an Illusion |
| 1996e |
The Future is an Illusion |
Ellison |
The Invisible Man |
| 1996f |
The Future is an Illusion |
Shakespeare |
Sonnets 113 129 130 137 141 148 |
| 1997a |
The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living |
Thucydides |
History of the Peloponnesian War |
| 1997b |
The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living |
Aristophanes |
Lysistrata; The Birds; The Clouds |
| 1997c |
The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living |
Aristotle |
Politics, Book I |
| 1997d |
The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living |
Aquinas |
Treatise on Law Questions 90-97 |
| 1997e |
The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living |
Montaigne |
Good & Evil / Custom & Law / Ed of Children |
| 1997e |
The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living |
Montaigne |
Pedantry / Cannibals / Folly-Truth & Error |
| 1997f |
The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living |
Rousseau |
Social Contract Books I & II |
| 1998a |
?? |
Aristotle |
Metaphysics: On Potency |
| 1998a |
?? |
Plotinus |
On Potentiality and Actuality |
| 1998b |
?? |
Pollack |
Signs of Life |
| 1998c |
?? |
Descartes |
Meditations I, II, III |
| 1998d |
?? |
Porter |
The Old Order |
| 1998e |
?? |
Erickson |
Identity and the Life Cycle |
| 1998f |
?? |
Basho |
The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| 1999a |
?? |
Moliere |
Tartuffe |
| 1999b |
?? |
Kant |
Fundamental Principlesof the Metaphysics of Morals |
| 1999c |
?? |
Hallie |
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed |
| 1999d |
?? |
Neitzsche |
Beyond Good and Evil |
| 1999e |
?? |
Shaw |
Major Barbara |
| 1999f |
?? |
Dostoevsky |
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man |
| 2000a |
Utopia |
Moore |
Utopia |
| 2000b |
Utopia |
Bellamy |
Looking Backwards |
| 2000c |
Utopia |
Hobbes |
Leviathan Book I & II |
| 2000d |
Utopia |
Capek |
R U R (Rossum's Universal Robots) |
| 2000e |
Utopia |
Bible |
Book of Revelation Chapters 20 & 21 |
| 2000f |
Utopia |
Yeats |
The Second Coming |
| 2000f |
Utopia |
Elliot T S |
The Journey of the Magi |
| 2001a |
The Truth of Myth |
Buber |
Images of Good and Evil |
| 2001b |
The Truth of Myth |
Melville |
Moby Dick |
| 2001c |
The Truth of Myth |
Shakespeare |
Coriolanus |
| 2001d |
The Truth of Myth |
Cicero |
Discussions at Tusculum |
| 2001e |
The Truth of Myth |
Emerson |
Fate |
| 2001f |
The Truth of Myth |
Baudelaire |
Flowers of Evil (Fleurs de Mal) |
| 2002a |
?? |
Schopenhauer |
The Wisdom of Life |
| 2002b |
?? |
Butler |
The Way of All Flesh |
| 2002c |
?? |
Shakespeare |
Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 |
| 2002e |
?? |
James Henry |
The Pupil |
| 2002f |
?? |
Bishop |
Poems |
| 2003a |
Doubt and Belief |
De Unamuno |
Tragic Sense of Life |
| 2003b |
Doubt and Belief |
Dostoyevsky |
The Brothers Karamazov (Selections) |
| 2003d |
Doubt and Belief |
Neitzsche |
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
| 2003e |
Doubt and Belief |
Kafka |
The Investigations of a Dog |
| 2003f |
Doubt and Belief |
Larkin |
Poems |
| 2004a |
No Ordinary Time |
Roosevelt |
Great Speechs |
| 2004b |
No Ordinary Time |
Steinbeck |
Grapes of Wrath |
| 2004c |
No Ordinary Time |
Arendt |
Origins of Totalitarianism |
| 2004d |
No Ordinary Time |
Goldman |
Anarchism & Other Essays |
| 2004e |
No Ordinary Time |
Weisel |
Night |
| 2004f |
No Ordinary Time |
Agee & Evans |
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men |
| 2005a |
The Fool |
Erasmus |
Praise of Folly |
| 2005b |
The Fool |
Cervantes |
Don Quixote |
| 2005c |
The Fool |
Trenchard & Gordon |
Cato's Letters (Selections) |
| 2005d |
The Fool |
Heller |
Catch 22 |
| 2005e |
The Fool |
Singer |
Gimple the Fool |
| 2006a |
Deja Lu |
Buber |
I and Thou |
| 2006b |
Deja Lu |
Kafka |
The Trial |
| 2006c |
Deja Lu |
Plato |
Symposium |
| 2006d |
Deja Lu |
Shakespeare |
The Tempest |
| 2006e |
Deja Lu |
Woolf |
To the Lighthouse |
| 2006f |
Deja Lu |
Whitman |
Song of Myself |
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