What We Are Reading

Various Great Books From Western Literature

Pascal – Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids, On Geometrical Demonstration

Montesquieu – Spirit of Laws [Book I-V, VIII, XI-XII]

Faraday – Experimental Researches in Electricity [Series I-II], A Speculation Touching Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter

Hegel: Philosophy of Right [Part III ]

Marx: Capital [Part III-IV]

Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents

Apollonius: On Conic Sections [Book I, Prop. 1-15; Book III, Prop. 42‑55]

Fielding: Tom Jones

Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat [Preliminary Discourse, Ch. 1‑2]

Molière – Tartuffe

Austen – Emma

Planck – Scientific Autobiography

Veblen – The Theory of the Leisure Class

Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Hemingway – The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Sophocles: Ajax, Electra

Plato: Timaeus

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]

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things [Book V-VI ]

Virgil: The Eclogues, The Georgics

Pascal – Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids, On Geometrical Demonstration

Montesquieu – Spirit of Laws [Book I-V, VIII, XI-XII]

Faraday – Experimental Researches in Electricity [Series I-II], A Speculation Touching Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter

Hegel: Philosophy of Right [Part III ]

Marx: Capital [Part III-IV]

Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents

Apollonius: On Conic Sections [Book I, Prop. 1-15; Book III, Prop. 42‑55]

Fielding: Tom Jones

Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat [Preliminary Discourse, Ch. 1‑2]

Molière – Tartuffe

Austen – Emma

Planck – Scientific Autobiography

Veblen – The Theory of the Leisure Class

Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Hemingway – The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Sophocles: Ajax, Electra

Plato: Timaeus

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]

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things [Book V-VI ]

Virgil: The Eclogues, The Georgics