Great Books of the Western World
Great Books of the Western World

The authors of the Great Books constitute the permanent faculty of the University – through their writings they are our primary teachers. Our moderators, lecturers and tutors guide students to and through them, the geniuses of Western civilization.

The Authors of the Great Books

Adam Smith
Aeschylus
Aquinas
Archimedes
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Augustine
Austen
Bacon
Balzac
Barth
Beckett
Bergson
Berkeley
Bohr
Boswell
Brecht
Calvin
Cather
Cervantes
Chaucer
Chekhov
Conrad
Copernicus
Dante
Darwin
Descartes
Dewey
Dickens
Diderot
Dobzhansky
Dostoevsky
Eddington
Einstein
Engels
Epictetus
Erasmus
Euclid
Euripides
Faraday
Faulkner
Fitzgerald
Frazer
Freud
Galen
Galileo
George Eliot
Gibbon
Gilbert
Goethe
Hardy
Harvey
Hegel
Heidegger
Heisenberg
Hemingway
Henry James
Herodotus
Hippocrates
Hobbes
Homer
Huizinga
Hume
Huygens
Ibsen
J.S. MillJoyce
Kafka
Kant
Kepler
Keynes
Kierkegaard
Lavoisier
Lawrence
Levi-Strauss
Locke
Lucretius
Machiavelli
Mann
Marcus Aurelius
Marx
Melville
Milton
Moliére
Montaigne
Montesquieu
Newton
Nicomachus
Nietzsche
O’Neill
Orwell
Pascal
Pirandello
Planck
Plato
Plotinus
Plutarch
Poincare
Proust
Ptolemy
Rabelais
Racine
Rousseau
Russell
Schrodinger
Shakespeare
Shaw
Sophocles
Spinoza
Swift
T.S. Eliot
Tacitus
Tawney
Thucydides
Tocqueville
Tolstoy
Twain
Veblen
Virgil
Voltaire
Waddington
Weber
Whitehead
Whitehead
William James
Wittgenstein
Woolf