Great Books Discussion Group: "Politics" and "Waiting for the Barbarians"

Program Type:

Discussion, Literacy

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

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Register and join us in person or on Zoom to read and discuss writings from the Great Books collection. This session's readings are taken from The Civically Engaged Reader from the Great Books Foundation.

September 11

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, 1924

October 2

Selection from Politics by Aristotle 

"Waiting for the Barbarians" by Constantine Cavafy, 1904

October 16

"Fellowship" and "The Helmsman" by Franz Kafka, 1917–1923

Selection from Richard II (abdication scene from Act 4, Scene 1) by William Shakespeare, 1595

November 6

Selection from The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith, 1759

November 20

Selection from Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

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