What is the Great Conversation reading group?
The Great Conversation is a reading group dedicated to reading the great works of Western
civilization. The name and original inspiration of the group is Britannica Great Books of the
Western World, edited by Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins. Adler and Hutchins believed the
great books could be viewed as a dialog, a conversation, taking place over the centuries and
millenia. The goal of our group is to listen in on that conversation and even to begin to
participate in it.
Our readings are taken from among the set of the authors in the Britannica Great Books
anthology following a modified version of Adler's and Hutchins's ten-year reading plan. We use
Adler's ten year reading plan as a general guide the selection of our readings. We will
generally follow the authors listed in the ten year reading plan, but we may choose to read the
entirety of particular books by those authors, instead of reading only a small selection as
frequently suggested by the Britannica editors. The goal is to read many of the original texts of
these authors directly and unfiltered.
Anyone is free to join and read and discuss. Having a copy of the Britannica Great Books is not
required, as these books are also available in other formats by other publishers, such as
Penguin.
We are a yahoogroup, which you can find at the link below.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreatConversation/
The Great Conversation is a reading group dedicated to reading the great works of Western
civilization. The name and original inspiration of the group is Britannica Great Books of the
Western World, edited by Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins. Adler and Hutchins believed the
great books could be viewed as a dialog, a conversation, taking place over the centuries and
millenia. The goal of our group is to listen in on that conversation and even to begin to
participate in it.
Our readings are taken from among the set of the authors in the Britannica Great Books
anthology following a modified version of Adler's and Hutchins's ten-year reading plan. We use
Adler's ten year reading plan as a general guide the selection of our readings. We will
generally follow the authors listed in the ten year reading plan, but we may choose to read the
entirety of particular books by those authors, instead of reading only a small selection as
frequently suggested by the Britannica editors. The goal is to read many of the original texts of
these authors directly and unfiltered.
Anyone is free to join and read and discuss. Having a copy of the Britannica Great Books is not
required, as these books are also available in other formats by other publishers, such as
Penguin.
We are a yahoogroup, which you can find at the link below.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreatConversation/
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