ISBN: 1428127453 9781428127456

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An interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story of the links between the works and the figures discussed. The lectures address in chronological sequence a series of major works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought, touching upon history, philosophy, literature, art, religion, politics, science, and technology.