Great Texts Notebook

Last Update: 27 May, 2003

The Great Texts
Notebook

Pages Devoted to Authors
Aeschylus | Anselm | Aquinas | Arendt | Aristotle | Arnold | Augustine | Averroes | Benedict of Nursia | Bernanos | Bernard of Clairvaux | Boethius | Bonaventure | Boswell | Camus | Cather | Cervantes | Cicero | Chaucer | Dante | George Eliot | T. S. Eliot | Euripides | Goethe | Hesiod | Homer | Johnson | Kafka | Kierkegaard | Marx | Murdoch | Nietzsche | O'Connor | Ortega y Gasset | Percy | Plato | Shakespeare | Mary Shelley | Percy Shelley | Virgil | Weber |

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Homer (c. 850 BC)

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The Iliad (trans. Fagles, Penguin)
The Odyssey (trans. Fagles, Penguin)
Hesiod (c. 800 BC)

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Theogony, Works and Days, Shield (trans. Athanassakis, Johns Hopkins Press)
Aeschylus (c. 512-c. 456 BC)

Euripides (440-406 BC)

Plato (427-347 BC)

Exploring Plato's Dialogues (Univ. of Evansville)
Plato and His Dialogues (Bernard Suzanne)
Links to Plato's works on the Web
Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Cicero (106-43 BC)

Cicero Homepage (U of Texas)
Cicero by Edward Clayton (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Rhetorica (Oxford Classical Texts)
The Nature of the Gods (Oxford World Classics)
Virgil (70-19 BC)

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The Aeneid (trans. Fitzgerald, Vintage Books)
St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

Augustine of Hippo (James J. O'Donnell, Penn)
Boethius (480-524)

Consolatio Philosophiae (Edited, with commentary, by James J. O'Donnell)
Consolation of Philosophy (English translation by W.V. Cooper)
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Life of Boethius
St. Benedict of Nursia (480-543)

St. Benedict of Nursia (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Rule of St. Benedict (Medieval Sourcebook)
Rule of St. Benedict (overview)

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Rule of St. Benedict (Vintage Spiritual Classics)
St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)

Proslogion
Gaunilo's Reply on Behalf of the Fool
Anselm's Response to Gaunilo by Gyula Klima
Proslogion I-IV with Gaunilo's reply (translation by David Barr)
Saint Anselm's Proof: A Problem of Reference, Intentional Identity and Mutual Understanding
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

Apology (translation by David Barr)
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Averroes (1126-1198)

On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (Medieval Sourcebook)
Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Website
Averroes (Catholic Encyclopedia)

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Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory (Brigham Young Univ. Press, 2002)
Middle Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima (Brigham Young Univ. Press, 2002)
Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Categories and De Interpretatione (St. Augustine Press, 2002)
St. Bonaventure (1217-1274)

St. Bonaventure (Catholic Encyclopedia)
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Complete text of the Summa Theologica (New Advent)
Thomistic Philosophy (Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston)
Aeterni Patris -- Leo XIII's Encyclical Letter on the Restoration of Christian Philosophy (1879)
The Neo-Thomists by Gerald A. McCool (Siobhan Nash-Marshall's review)
Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame
The Lonergan Web Site

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Selected Writings (edited by Ralph McInerny, Penguin Publishers)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

The World of Dante (Deborah Parker)
Dante Aligieri on the Web
Dante (Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Dante Alighieri (Catholic Encyclopedia)

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The Dore Illustrations for The Divine Comedy by Gustave Dore
The Divine Comedy (trans. Mandelbaum, Everyman's Library Series)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

The Geoffrey Chaucer Homepage Website (Harvard)
Geoffrey Chaucer (Anthology of Middle English Literature)
geoffreychaucer.org (an annotated guide to on-line resources)
Geoffrey Chaucer (Catholic Encyclopedia)

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Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library Series)
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

The Cervantes Project (Texas A&M)
The Cervantes Homepage (Virginia Tech)
H-Cervantes (H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine)

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Don Quixote (Penguin edition)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson (Jack Lynch, Rutgers University)
Samuel Johnson (Biographical Sketches) Available from Amazon.com
Samuel Johnson: Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (Everyman's Library edition)
James Boswell (1740-1795)

James Boswell (Books and Writers)
James Boswell (Great Books Index)
Chronology of the life of Boswell

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Life of Samuel Johnson (Everyman's Library edition)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

Tocqueville's Lament by P.N. Furbank (New York Review of Books, April 8, 1999)
Tocqueville today by Roger Kimball [New Criterion, November 2000]
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"One Who Prays Aright" from Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses by Kierkegaard (1843)
D. Anthony Storm's Website on Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard Resources
Søren Kierkegaard by William McDonald (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The Kierkegaard Computer Workshop (Alastair McKinnon)
Infinitely Interesting: Bloom, Kierkegaard, and the Educational Quest by Patricia Rohrer
On 'The Seducer's Diary' by John Updike [NYRB, 5/29/97]
Kant and Kierkegaard: The Subjectivization of Faith by Antoinette M. Stafford (Animus 3--1998)
Kierkegaard vs. Nietzsche (Robert Sarkissian)
David Burrell's Review of Three Outsiders: Pascal, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil by Diogenes Allen
KPhilip Quinn's Review of Dialogical Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Buber by Shmuel Hugo Bergman
Can We Be Good without God? Rediscovering Works of Love by C. Stephen Evans [Books and Culture, July/Aug 2000]
What did Kierkegaard Want? by Roger Kimball [New Criterion, September 2001]

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The Moment and Late Writings by Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard's Writings, 23--1998, Princeton Univ. Press)
Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus by Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard's Writings, 8--1985, Princeton Univ. Press)
Prefaces: Writing Sampler by Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard's Writings, 9--1998, Princeton Univ. Press)
Faith Beyond Reason : A Kierkegaardian Account by C. Stephen Evans (1998, Eerdmans)
Freedom and Its Misuses : Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Dispair by Gregory R. Beabout (1996, Marquette Univ. Press)
The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard edited by Alastair Hannay and Gordon Daniel Marino (1997, Cambridge)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Karl Marx--Political Theory
Karl Marx (The Window)
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Boris Groys and the Specters of Marx by Dragan Kujundzic (Tympanum)
Study Guide for Communist Manifesto (by Paul Brians)
Andy Merrifield's Review of Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen [The Nation, July 10, 2000]
Wittgenstein and Marx on 'Philosophical Language' by Rupert Read [Essays in Philosophy, 1:2]
Let Marx Be Marx by Gertrude Himmelfarb, a review of Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen [The New Republic, July 24, 2000]
George Eliot (1819-1880)

George Eliot Fellowship of Japan
Chronological list of Eliot's publications
George Eliot: Good without God by Alan Jacobs (First Things, April 2000)

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Middlemarch (Penguin edition)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

On the Prejudices of Philosophers -- Part One of Beyond Good and Evil (1885)
Nietzsche Page at USC
Friedrich Nietzsche (Robert Wicks, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Nietzsche Links
Friedrich Nietzsche Society
Associazione Internazionale di Studi e Ricerche Federico Nietzsche (in Italian)
Adam Schulman's Review of Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist by Peter Berkowitz [Commentary, August 1996]
The Domesticated Nietzsche -- Werner J. Dannhauser's review of Berkowitz
Alexander Nehamas's Review of The Importance of Nietzsche: Ten Essays by Erich Heller (NYTBR April 30, 1989)
Washing Wagner Out of His Hair by Ray Monk [a review of Young Nietzsche: Becoming a Genius by Carl Pletsch (NYTBR August 4, 1991)]
Karsten Harries's Review of Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas [NYTBR January 19, 1986]
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt's Review of Nietzsche in Turin: An Intimate Biography by Lesley Chamberlain [NYTBR January 23, 1998]
Nietzsche at the Mall: Deconstructing the Consumer by Daniel R. White and Gert Hellerick
Nietzsche as Self-Made Man by Alexander Nehamas (a review of Composing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsche's Psychology, by Graham Parkes)
Coping with Nietzsche's Legacy: Rorty, Derrida, Gadamer by Gary Brent Madison
Nietzsche was Right by Philip Yancey
Nazis in the Wilderness by Simon Collier [a review of Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre (NYTBR October 4, 19950)]
Study Guide for Book I of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (by Paul Brians)
The Influence of Nietzsche by Paul Brians
The Will to Madness by Alan Ryan [a review of Nietzsche and Wager: A Lesson in Subjugation by Joachim Kohler (NYTBR, 1/24/99)]
Nietzsche en castellano (Horacio Potel)
Gender in The Gay Science by Kathleem Marie Higgins [Philosophy and Literature (1995)]
Nietzsche: Utility, Aesthetics, History by Robert Doran [Comparative Literature Studies 37/3 (2000): 321-343] (available through Muse)
Becoming Zarathustra--Thomas Nagel's review of Safranski's Nietzsche-A Philosophical Biography [New Republic, January 14, 2002]
The Sweet Sound of Schopenhauer by Jason Royal [a review of The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy by Bryan Magee

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Nietzsche and Wagner: A Lesson in Subjugation by Joachim Kohler (1998, Yale Univ. Press)
Dark Riddle : Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews by Yirmiyahu Yovel (1998, Penn State Univ. Press)
Max Weber (1864-1920)

Verstehen: Max Weber's Home Page
Weber on Objectivity in Social Science by Steve Hoenisch
Wilfred M. McClay's Review of Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy by John Patrick Diggins [Commentary, 1996]

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The Unknown Max Weber by Paul Honigsheim (1999, Transaction Publishers)
Martin Buber (1878-1965)

Martin Buber (Andreas Schmidt)
Martin Buber (Katharena Eiermann)
Werner J. Dannhauser's Review of The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue, edited by Nahum N. Glatzer and Paul Mendes-Flohr
L. Gregory Jones's Review of The Text as Thou: Martin Buber's Dialogical Hermeneutics and Narrative Theology by Steven Kepnes
Philip Quinn's Review of Dialogical Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Buber by Shmuel Hugo Bergman
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

Constructing Franz Kafka (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Das Schloss: A Kafka Web Site (The Libyrinth)
Brentano and Kafka by Barry Smith
Franz Kafka & the trip to Spindemuhle by Eric Ormsby [New Criterion, November, 1998]
(In)Felicitous Speech Acts in Kafka's The Trial by J. Hillis Miller [Tympanum 4]
José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)

José Ortega y Gasset (Katharena Eiermann)
The Revolt of the Masses
Georges Bernanos (1888-1948)

James Wood's Review of Monsieur Ouine by Georges Bernanos [The New Republic, February 26, 2001]
William Bush's Review of Bernanos: An Ecclesial Existence by Hans Urs von Balthasar
Georges Bernanos (Books and Writers)
Quotations from Bernanos (CyberNation)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

Hannah Arendt (The Window)
A Heroine of Revolution by Hannah Arendt [a review of Rosa Luxemburg by J.P. Nettl, NYRB, October 6, 1966]
Eichman in Jerusalem, a report on the banality of evil (an excerpt)
A Special Supplement Reflections on Violence by Arendt [NYRB, February 27, 1969]
American Weimar: Hannah Arendt and De Jure Authority
Essays in Understanding (a review by Jean Bethke Elshtain)
Love and Saint Augustine (a review by George McKenna)
Obsession Transcends 'The Banality of Evil' by Richard Bernstein (a review of Elzbieta Ettinger's Hannah Arendt-Martin Heidegger, NY Times Book Review, September 11, 1995)
The Banality of Love and the Meaning of the Political by Frederick M. Dolan
Rita Goldberg's Review of Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975, edited by Carol Brightman
Principled Differences by Melissa A. Orlie [a review of Seyla Benhabib's The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt, Theory and Event 1:3 (1997) ]
Liberation: Hannah Arendt and Gay Marriage by Andrew Sullivan (The New Republic, May 6, 1996)
Hannah Arendt (Daniel Cohn-Bendit)
A Fugitive from Egypt and Palestine, by Amos Elon [a review of Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess by Hannah Arendt (NYRB, 2/18/99)]
Snowblind: Martin Heidegger & Hannah Arendt by Berel Lang [New Criterion, January 1996]
A Note on the Banality of Evil by Stephen Miller [Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 1998]
Hannah Arendt Links
Cynthia Haven's Review of Within Four Walls: The Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, 1936-1968 edited by Lotte Kohler [San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2001]

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Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil by Arendt (1994, Penguin Classics)
Rahel Varnhagen : The Life of a Jewess by Arendt (1997, Johns Hopkins Press)
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Arendt (1973, Harcourt Brace)
The Human Condition by Arendt (1998, Univ. of Chicago Press)
Love and Saint Augustine by Arendt (1998, Univ. of Chicago)
Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question by Richard J. Bernstein (1996, MIT)
Hannah Arendt: Twenty Years Later edited by Larry May and Jerome Kohn (1997, MIT)

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Eichmann in Jerusalem. Ein Bericht von der Banalität des Bösen by Arendt (1986)
Briefe 1925 bis 1975 und andere Zeugnisse by Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger (1999, Klostermann)
Geglückte Zeit, gestundete Zeit. Hannah Arendts Kritik der Moderne by Roland W. Schindler (1996)
Hannah Arendt. Leben, Werk und Zeit by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (1991)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

Simone de Beauvoir (The Window)
Simone de Beauvoir (Katharena Eiermann)
Simone de Beauvoir (Art and Culture)
In a Cuban Prison --an open letter from Sartre, Foucault, de Beauvoir, Paz, and others on behalf of Dr. Martha Frayde to the New York Review of Books, December 7, 1978
Letters from Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren (BBC online)
Cinquantenaire du Deuxième Sexe
The Second Sex at Fifty by Vivian Gornick [Dissent, Fall 1999]
Special Issue: The Work of Simone de Beauvoir The Journal of Speculative Philosophy

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The Second Sex by de Beauvoir (1989, Vintage Books reissue)
Beauvoir and the Second Sex : Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism by Margaret A. Simons (1999, Rowman & Littlefield)
Simone De Beauvoir : A Critical Reader edited by Elizabeth Fallaize (1998, Routledge)
Simone De Beauvoir's the Second Sex : New Interdisciplinary Essays edited by Ruth Evans (1998, St. Martin's Press)
The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities by Debra B. Bergoffen (1996, SUNY)
Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir by Karen Vintges (1996, Indiana)

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908- )

The Disappearance of Man by Lévi-Strauss [NYRB, July 28, 1966]
Simone Weil (1909-1943)

Simone Weil (Brian Thomas)
Simone Weil
Simone Weil Home Page (Allison Stuart)
Waiting for God (an excerpt)
Simone Weil by Susan Sontag [NYRB, February 1963]
David Burrell's Review of Three Outsiders: Pascal, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil by Diogenes Allen
Albert Camus (1913-1960)

The Notebook on Albert Camus
Albert Camus (Existential Frames)
The Blood of Freedom by Camus
Albert Camus (Bohemian Ink)
Albert Camus (Katharena Eiermann)
The Absurd Hero by Bob Lane
A Page About Albert Camus (Sam Gallagher)
Rebel without a Cause by Isabelle de Courtivron [a review of Albert Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd, NYTimes BookReview, 12/14/97]
Albert Camus: A Life: Chapter One by Olivier Todd
The Last Camus by David Cook [a review of Le premier homme, CTHEORY]
Articles on Camus from the New York Times Archive
Albert Camus (Timothy Leuers)
Camus's Meursault and Sartrian Irresponsibility by David Sherman [Philosophy and Literature 19:1 (1995): 60-77] (available through Muse)
The Sickness Unto Life: Camus and twentieth-century clarity by James Wood [The New Republic, November 8, 1999]
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

Denis Donoghue's Review of The Time of the Angels by Murdoch [NYRB, November 17, 1966]
"Go(o)d in Iris Murdoch" by Alan Jacobs
J. Bottum's Review of Jackson's Dilemma
De verleiding van de vorm by Wim D'Haveloose [a review of Jackson's Dilemma, in Dutch] De Standaard, 25 april 1996
Chapter One of Elegy for Iris by John Bayley
Iris and John by Mary Gordon [a review of Elegy for Iris by John Bayley (NYTBR 12/20/98)]
Articles and Reviews of Iris Murdoch from the New York Times
Alan Jacobs's Review of Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch [First Things, January 1999]
New York Times Obituary by Richard Nicholls (February 9, 1999)
In the Dark Continent by Rosemary Dinnage [a review of Elegy for Iris, NYRB, 3/4/99]
The Quality of Iris Murdoch by Anthony Quinton [This is London, 15 February, 1999]
When She Was Good by Martha Nussbaum [New Republic, December 31, 2001]

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Elegy for Iris by John Bayley (1999, St. Martin's Press)
Existentialists and Mystics : Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch (1998, Allen Lane)

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