Great Conversation Reading Group
Dec 2022 JOYCE – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Jan 2023 HEMINGWAY – The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Feb 2023 SOPHOCLES: Ajax, Electra
Mar 2023 PLATO: Timaeus
Apr 2023 ARISTOTLE: On the Parts of Animals [Book I, Ch. 1—Book II, Ch. 1], On the Generation of Animals [Book I, Ch. 1, 17-18, 20-23]
May 2023 LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things [Book V-VI]
Jun 2023 VIRGIL: The Eclogues, The Georgics
Jul 2023 ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 65-74]
Aug 2023 ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 90-102]
Sep 2023 CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales [Prologue, Knight’s Tale, Miller’s Prologue and Tale, Reeve’s Prologue and Tale, Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Friars Prologue and Tale, Summoner’s Prologue and Tale, Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale]
Oct 2023 SHAKESPEARE: The Tragedy of King Richard II, The First Part of King Henry IV, The Second Part of King Henry IV, The Life of King Henry V
Nov 2023 HARVEY: On the Generation of Animals [Introduction—Exercise 62]
Dec 2023 CERVANTES: Don Quixote [Part II]
Jan 2024 KANT: Critique of Judgement [Critique of Teleological Judgement]
Feb 2024 GOETHE: Faust [Part II]
Mar 2024 DARWIN: The Descent of Man [Part I; Part III, Ch. 21]
Apr 2024 MARX: Capital [Part VII-VIII]
May 2024 JAMES: Principles of Psychology [Ch. I, V-VII]
Jun 2024 FREUD: A General Introduction to Psycho-analysis
Jul 2024 BOSWELL: The Life of Samuel Johnson
Aug 2024 ERASMUS: In Praise of Folly
Sep 2024 HUIZINGA: The Waning of the Middle Ages [XI – XXIII]
Oct 2024 EDDINGTON: The Expanding Universe
Nov 2024 T.S. ELIOT: The Waste Land