Lecture Notes
Timothy H. Wilson
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Lecture Notes on the Great Books
Lecture Notes on the Great Books
See individual author pages for other background lectures, for example an introduction to Reading A Platonic Dialogue can be found at the Plato author page.
General
General
English Literature: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
An Introduction to Literary Terms 🖥️ (Video)
How to Write a Research Essay 🖥️ (Video)
Top 10 Greatest Books of All Time 🖥️ (Video)
Ancient (2000 BCE - 500 CE)
Ancient (2000 BCE - 500 CE)
Homer: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
The Iliad (760-710 BCE) 🖥️ (Video)
The Odyssey (760-710 BCE) 🖥️ (Video)
Aeschylus (525-456 BCE)
Greek Tragedy: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
Prometheus Bound (480-56 BCE)
Euripides (480-406 BCE)
Medea (431 BCE)
Thucydides (460-400 BCE)
The History of the Peloponnesian War (404 BCE)
Plato (427-347 BCE)
The Republic (375 BCE)
Phaedrus (370 BCE)
Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
Poetics (335 BCE)
Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
Virgil (70-19 BCE)
Eclogues (37 BCE)
Georgics (29 BCE)
The Aeneid (29-19 BCE) 🖥️ (Video)
Medieval (500 - 1500)
Medieval (500 - 1500)
Medieval Literature: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
Augustine of Hippo, (354-430)
Confessions (397-400)
Boethius (477-524)
The Consolation of Philosophy (524)
Old English Literature 🖥️ (Video)
Dream of the Rood and The Wanderer (8th - 9th C)
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
On Truth (1259)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
The Canterbury Tales (1400) 🖥️ (Video)
First Wave of Modernity (1500 - 1780)
First Wave of Modernity (1500 - 1780)
Renaissance Literature: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Letter to Vettori (1513) 🖥️ (Video)
The Prince (1513) 🖥️ (Video)
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86)
Astrophil and Stella (1580s) 🖥️ (Video)
How to Read a Poem (Astrophil and Stella #5) 🖥️ (Video)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Doctor Faustus (1592-93)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Shakespearean Drama: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
Shakespeare's Histories: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
Shakespeare's Roman Plays: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-96)
Henry IV, Part 1 (1596-97)
Julius Caesar (1599)
Hamlet (1600-01)
Othello (1604)
King Lear (1605-06)
Macbeth (1606)
Antony and Cleopatra (1607) 🖥️ (Video)
Coriolanus (1607-08) 🖥️ (Video)
John Milton (1608-74)
Paradise Lost (1667/74) 🖥️ (Video)
Paradise Regained (1671)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Second Treatise of Government (1689)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Robinson Crusoe (1719) 🖥️ (Video)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Second Wave of Modernity (1780-1880)
Second Wave of Modernity (1780-1880)
Romanticism: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-88)
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (1755)
William Blake (1757-1827)
Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-93)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
"Tintern Abbey" (1798) 🖥️ (Video)
"Thanksgiving Ode" (1816)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
A Defence of Poetry (1821)
Emily Bronte (1818-47)
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Karl Marx (1818-83)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81)
Crime and Punishment (1866)
Brothers Karamozov (1880)
Third Wave of Modernity (1880-Present)
Third Wave of Modernity (1880-Present)
Nihilism: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
Overcoming Nihilism 🖥️ (Video)
Modernism: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Nietzsche: An Introduction 🖥️ (Video)
On the Uses and Disadvantages of History (1874)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-85)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
A Boring Story (1889)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Mrs. Dalloway (1925) 🖥️ (Video)
To the Lighthouse (1927) 🖥️ (Video)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Waste Land (1922)
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
Martin Heidegger: An Introduction
Being and Time (1927)
On the Essence of Truth (1930)
Plato's Doctrine of Truth (1931-32)
On the Origin of the Work of Art (1935-37)
The Question Concerning Technology (1954)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Leo Strauss (1899-1973)
The Three Waves of Modernity 🖥️ (Video)
Jacques Derrida (1930-2005)
Deconstruction: An Introduction
Plato's Pharmacy (1968)
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