na INLIS000000000001403 20200508201444 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 0852295316A2 010-0520001403 eng 081.20 081.20/J.A/G Editor Mortimer J.Adler Great Books of The Western World 07540 Ed.2nd Chicago Cambridge University Press 2005 xxvi,900 ,24cm Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. The thousands of topics discussed in The Great Books are organized in The Syntopicon (vol.1) under The Great Ideas, 102 in number. Each of The Great Ideas includes an Introduction, Outline of Topics, References, Cross-References, and Additional Readings. For further explanation, see the Editor's Notes in Happiness. We also include a link to Mark Whitman's on-line version of The Syntopicon's chapter on The Great Idea of War and Peace. Anthologies