Originally published by Encyclopedia Britannica in 1952, Great Books of the Western World offered a selection of core texts representing the highest achievements of European and North American culture ...

The great-books idea arose from — and some would say is now a relic of — the “liberal culture” vertex of Veysey’s triangle. Advocates thought great-books courses would encourage personal ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. During my grade school years in the early 1970s, I read everything. Books, of course ...

Great books of the Western tradition, or indeed any tradition, can be daunting on first encounter. Part of the reason is their eminence, part their mystique and part their aura. The challenges they ...

Born and schooled in France, JACQUES came to this country in 1919. He was naturalized in 1933 and is now Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of several books , >among ...

Freshmen in the Honors Program were, up until Fall 2014, required to take Great Books. Although that requirement has since altered slightly, Great Books remains one of the few options, and, at about ...

The humanities are in danger, but humanists can’t agree on how—or why—they should be saved. Louis Menand on Roosevelt Montás’s “Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life ...

Classical circles love analyzing what Markos repeatedly calls the “Great Books,” but when culture is merely studied—even appreciated—it still remains functionally dead.