Great ideas today
Annual designed to examine the problems of the day in terms of those books which, over the centuries, have been recognized as great. Footnote citations to "Great Books of the Western World" set. For vols. in library, see Title Catalog
Print Book, English, 1961-
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1961-
volumes
9780852291504, 9780852291672, 9780852292754, 0852291507, 0852291671, 0852292759
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1969:
pt. 1: The university today:
The pluralistic university in the pluralistic society / Clark Kerr
The university as custodian of reason / Edward H. Levi
The function of the university in a time of crisis / Noam Chomsky
The university as slaughterhouse / John R. Seeley
A catechism for our times / Mortimer J. Adler
pt. 2: The year's developments in the arts and sciences:
Schooling and education / John I. Goodlad
The philosophy of science / Herbert Feigl
Technology and value / John G. Burke
pt. 3: The contemporary status of a great idea:
The idea of God and the difficulties of atheism / Etienne Gilson
pt. 4: The great books library:
Special feature:
Great books of the twentieth century in literature
Additions to the great books library:
Proslogion, Gaunilo's criticism, and Anselm's reply. The idea of the university in the nineteenth century:
On the organization of institutions of higher learning in Berlin / Humboldt
The idea of a university / Newman
Inaugural address at St. Andrews / Mill
Wallenstein
Part one: the Piccolomini, translated by Coleridge / Schiller