Monthly Archives: May 2013

Shakespeare: Exposing an Infant Leads to Death by Bear

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Dr. J

As we forge ahead with the Great Books Project, this week we get an encore reading from T.S. Eliot. We also, at long last, wrap up Book I of Epictetus’s Discourses and get what I hope will be something lucid … Continue reading →

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The Wrath of Heaven against the Roman State

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Dr. J

We’ve now completed the Annals of Tacitus and are poised to finish Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class this week. I’m going to celebrate by reading another Shakespeare play, something particularly appropriate in light of Shakespeare’s role in the T.S. … Continue reading →

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Fiddling While Rome Burned?

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Dr. J

Now that we’ve finished Dante’s epic, we can read commentary on it from one of the 20th century’s great minds. It’s a nice way to pass our 4,000th page of Imaginative Literature this week. Here are the readings for the … Continue reading →

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“I Smile at Your Childish Thought”

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Dr. J

Welcome to a very tardy Great Books post. This week we take a break from Epictetus in order to read a short treatise by Aristotle (yes, such a thing does exist). Here are the readings for the coming week: The … Continue reading →

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How Many Psychoanalysts Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Dr. J

How many do you think it takes? (Get it?) Here are the readings for the coming week: The Divine Comedy: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri, Cantos I-XVI (GBWW Vol. 19, pp. 90-111) “In How Many Ways Appearances Exist” by Epictetus (GBWW … Continue reading →

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