Week One

Great Books

Here is a list where each title is equivalent by virtue of the properties of static lists:

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Francois Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel

Jane Austin's Sense and Sensibility

Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Dorian Grey

Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations

Karl Marx's Capital

Lucretius' On the Nature of the Universe

Braudel's Civilization and Capitalism

Mandeville's Fable of the Bees

Diderot's Rameau's Nephew

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

Diderot's and D'Alembert's Encyclopedia

Sigmund Freud's Civilization and its Discontents

Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization

Pierre Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary

Fydor Dostoyevsky's The Brother's Karamazov

George Orwell's Animal Farm

Robert Graves's I Claudius

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution

Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers

Peter Gay's Enlightenment Series

Charles Babbage's Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

R. G. Collingwood's The Idea of History

Shakespeare's Hamlet

Sir Walter Scott's Waverly

H. G. Wells's The Time Machine

Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Michel Foucault's The Order of Things

Susan Sontag's On Photography

 

 

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Week One