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The Mysterious Stranger
116. • •william James ( 1842-1910 )
• The Principles of Psychology
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Pragmatism
Essays in Radical Empiricism
117. • •Henry James ( 1843-1916 )
The American
The Ambassadors
118. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzc;che ( 1844-190) Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
The Genealogy of Morals
The Will to Power
119. Jules Henri Poincare ( 1854-1912 )
Science and Hypothesis
Science and Method
120. Sigmund Freud ( 1�1939)
0The Interpretation of Dreams
• Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
•Civilization and Its Discontents
•New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis 121. • •George Bernard Shaw ( 1856-1950)
Plays ( and Prefaces )
( esp. Man and Superman, Ma;or Barbara,
Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan ) 122. ••Max Planck ( 1858-1947)
Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory Where Is Science Going?
Scientific Autobiography
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123. Henri Bergson ( 1859-1941 )
Time and Free Will
Matter and Memory
Creative Evolution
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
124. • •John Dewey ( 1859-1952 )
How We Think
Democracy and Education
Experience and Nature
Logic, the Theory of Inquiry
125. • • Alfred North Whitehead ( 1861-1947) An Introduction to Mathematics
Science and the Modem World
The Aims of Education and Other Essays
Adventures of Ideas
126. • 0George Santayana ( 1863-1952 )
The Life of Reason
Skepticism and Animal Faith
Persons and Places
127. Nikolai Lenin ( 1870-1924 )
The State and Revolution
128. Marcel Proust ( 1871-1922 )
Remembrance of Things Past
129. • •Bertrand Russell ( 1872-1970)
The Problems of Philosophy
The Analysis of Mind
An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
Human Knowledge; Its Scope and Limits
130. • •Thomas Mann ( 1875-1955 )
The Magic Mountain
Joseph and His Brothers
131. •• Albert Einstein ( 1879-1955 )
The Meaning of Relativity
On the Method of Theoretical Physics
The Evolution of Physics ( with L. Infeld ) 132. • 0James Joyce ( 1882-1941 )
"The Dead" in Dubliners
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132. James Joyce, continued
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
133. Jacques Maritain ( 1882-
)
Art and Scholasticis
The Degrees of Knowledge
The Rights of Man and Natural Law
True Humanism
134. Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 )
The Trial
The Castle
135. Arnold Toynbee ( 1889-
)
A Study of History
Civilization on Trial
136. Jean Paul Sartre ( 1905-
)
Nausea
No Exit
Being and Nothingness
137. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ( 1918-
The First Circle
Cancer Ward
APPEN DIX B
EXERCISES AND TESTS
AT THE FOU R LEVELS OF READI N G
Introductory
This Appendix offers a highly abbreviated sample of what Reading Exercises for independent study or group study are like. Obviously the sample cannot provide a thorough or exhaustive set of exercises, such as one would expect to find in a manual or workbook. However, it can perhaps go a certain way toward suggesting what such exercises would be, and how to get the most out of them.
The Appendix contains brief exercises and test questions at each of the four levels of reading:
At the First Level of Reading-Elementary Reading-the texts used are biographical notes about two of the authors included in Great Books of the Westem World, John Stuart Mil and Sir Isaac Newton.
At the Second Level of Reading-Inspectional Readingthe texts used are the tables of contents of two works included in Great Books of the Westem World, Dante's Divine Comedy and Darwin's The Origin of Species.
At the Third Level of Reading-Analytical Reading-the text used is How to Read a Book itself.
At the Fourth Level of Reading-Syntopical Readingthe texts used are selected passages reprinted from two other 363
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works included in Great Books of the Westem World, Aristotle's Politics and Rousseau's The Social Contract.
The reader will probably find that the sample exercises at the first two levels of reading are more familiar and conventional than those at the last two levels. This Appendix, unlike a more elaborate manual, can