Join us for this year’s exploration of the Great Books. Each year community members come together to engage in lively and rigorous dialogue using excerpts from the Great Books. Aspen Institute senior moderator Pete Thigpen will moderate this year’s series. Pete has been a Senior Fellow and Moderator for the Aspen Institute since 1989 as well as a lecturer at the Haas School of Business, and is on the board of a number of business and nonprofit organizations.
Fee (includes readings): $150 ($130 for Institute Donors).
Wednesday, February 1
Dewey, Habits & Will
Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Wednesday, February 8
Mill, On Liberty
Midgley, Trying Out One’s New Sword
Wednesday, February 15
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Oliver, West Wind #2, The Summer’s Day
Wednesday, February 22
Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
Weil, Human Personality
Wednesday, February 29
Maimonides, On Evil
Lessing, To Room Nineteen