World of Ideas
Essential Readings for College WritersTenth Edition| ©2017 Lee A. Jacobus
The first and bestselling reader of its kind, A World of Ideas introduces students to great thinkers whose ideas have shaped civilizations throughout history. When students hear names like Aristotle, Martin Luther King, Jr., Virginia Woolf, or Sigmund Freud, they recognize the author as impor...
The first and bestselling reader of its kind, A World of Ideas introduces students to great thinkers whose ideas have shaped civilizations throughout history. When students hear names like Aristotle, Martin Luther King, Jr., Virginia Woolf, or Sigmund Freud, they recognize the author as important — and they rise to the challenge of engaging with the text and evaluating it critically. No other composition reader offers a comparable collection of essential readings along with the supportive apparatus students need to understand, analyze, and respond to them.
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Great ideas make great writers
The first and bestselling reader of its kind, A World of Ideas introduces students to great thinkers whose ideas have shaped civilizations throughout history. When students hear names like Aristotle, Martin Luther King, Jr., Virginia Woolf, or Sigmund Freud, they recognize the author as important — and they rise to the challenge of engaging with the text and evaluating it critically. No other composition reader offers a comparable collection of essential readings along with the supportive apparatus students need to understand, analyze, and respond to them.
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Forty-nine readings from the world’s greatest thinkers introduce students to the ideas that have shaped Western culture. Writers such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Lao-tzu, and Mary Wollstonecraft examine ideas across six themes: Government, Culture, Wealth, Science, Mind, and Ethics. Detailed editorial apparatus helps students handle the challenging material.
A comprehensive Instructor's Manual provides support for your teaching. This exceptionally thorough resource includes sentence outlines for each selection, further background on the selections, suggestions for classroom discussion and student writing assignments, brief bibliographies for every author, and sample syllabi.
- Two chapters on Evaluating Ideas and Writing about Ideas introduce students to best practices for critical reading, thinking, and writing.
- Part introductions and chapter-wide questions ground students in the history of each idea and connect the philosophies of the individual writers.
- Pre-reading questions, abundant discussion and connections questions, and writing prompts for each selection help students focus their reading and hone their understanding.
- Glosses and introductory quotations provide additional context for themes and readings.
A comprehensive Instructor's Manual provides support for your teaching. This exceptionally thorough resource includes sentence outlines for each selection, further background on the selections, suggestions for classroom discussion and student writing assignments, brief bibliographies for every author, and sample syllabi.
New to This Edition
18 new readings from important thinkers include landmark essays from great thinkers across the ages, such as Hsun Tzu’s argument that man’s nature is evil, John Maynard Keynes’s thoughts on the end of a laissez-faire economy, Carol Gilligan’s examination of the self and morality, Francis Fukuyama’s exploration of the middle class and democracy, and Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences.Two new foundational ideas explore enduring themes that impact students:- Culture
- Considerations
"I used A World of Ideas when I was enrolled in junior college. And now that I teach at the same institution, I believe it's my moral obligation to provide my English composition students with a similar wealth of ideas that will shape and reshape their views of the world. I am able to fulfill this academic commitment through Lee Jacobus's text, for as Plato would say, it remains ‘truly rich . . . in virtue and wisdom.’"
–Jason Casem, Long Beach City College"A World of Ideas is the one text you need if you want your students to appreciate how writing has shaped the world they've inherited and the world they will pass on to their children. No other reader on the market comes close. It's the only book in in its class that shows students how writing impacted the world we inherited."
–Greg Underwood, Pearl River Community College"A World of Ideas takes excerpts from serious, seminal texts and packs them into an amazing anthology. Given that so many students come into college with little in the way of scholarship when it comes to the classics of the Western canon, it seems appropriate to try to expose them to ideas that have shaped Western culture. A composition course might be the only place they are ever allowed to read Thoreau, Machiavelli, Arendt, Douglass or Rousseau."
–Jon Brammer, Three Rivers Community College"A World of Ideas will open your eyes to areas of immense importance of what it means to be a human being. You are going to read the best that has been written on democracy, government, ethics, wealth, gender, language, and education by not only the greatest thinkers in human history but also the contemporary ones. Challenge these thinkers, and be ready to be enlightened and challenged by them."
–Suocai Su, Harold Washington College"A World of Ideas is the text that made me an English major."
–Garry Partridge, San Antonio College

World of Ideas
Tenth Edition| ©2017
Lee A. Jacobus
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World of Ideas
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Table of Contents
Preface for InstructorsNote to StudentsEVALUATING IDEAS: AN INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL READING WRITING ABOUT IDEAS: AN INTRODUCTION TO RHETORICGOVERNMENTSome Considerations about the Nature of Government Lao-Tzu, Thoughts from the Tao-te ChingAristotle, Democracy and Oligarchy Niccolò Machiavelli, The Qualities of the PrinceJean-Jacques Rousseau, The Origin of Civil SocietyThomas Jefferson, The Declaration of IndependenceAlexis de Tocqueville, Government by Democracy in America*Ralph Waldo Emerson, PoliticsHannah Arendt, Total DominationBenazir Bhutto, Islam and DemocracyReflections on the Nature of GovernmentCULTURE Some Considerations about the Nature of CultureMary Wollstonecraft, Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society*Jacob Riis, The Color Line in New YorkVirginia Woolf, Shakespeare’s SisterMargaret Mead, Sex and TemperamentMartin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail *John Rawls, A Theory of JusticeNeil Postman, The Word Weavers/The World MakersJudith Butler, from Undoing GenderReflections on the Nature of CultureWEALTHSome Considerations about the Nature of WealthAdam Smith, Of the Natural Progress of OpulenceKarl Marx, The Communist ManifestoAndrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth*John Maynard Keynes, The End of Laissez-FaireMilton and Rose Friedman, Created Equal*F. A. Hayek, Economic Control and TotalitarianismRobert Reich, Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Poorer*Francis Fukuyama, The Middle Class and Democracy’s FutureReflections on the Nature of WealthMIND Some Considerations about the Nature of Mind*Friedrich Nietzsche, Apollonianism and Dionysianism Sigmund Freud, The Oedipus ComplexCarl Jung, The Personal and Collective UnconsciousKaren Horney, The Distrust between the Sexes*Gilbert Ryle, The Ghost in the Machine*Robert Nozick, Emotions*Eric Kandel, The Problem of Consciousness*Howard Gardner, Multiple IntelligencesReflections on the Nature of MindSCIENCESome Considerations about the Nature of SciencePlato, The Allegory of the CaveFrancis Bacon, The Four IdolsCharles Darwin, Natural Selection*Richard Feynman, The Value of Science*Edward O. Wilson, What Is Science?*Michio Kaku, The Theory of the Universe?*Philip Kitcher, Inescapable Eugenics*Lisa Randall, Newtonian Gravity and Special RelativityReflections on the Nature of ScienceETHICSSome Considerations about the Nature of EthicsAristotle, The Aim of Man*Hsun Tzu, Man’s Nature is EvilHenry David Thoreau, Civil DisobedienceFrederick Douglass, From the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveIris Murdoch, Morality and ReligionMichael Gazzaniga, Toward a Universal Ethics*Carol Gilligan, Concepts of Self and MoralityKwame Anthony Appiah, The Case against CharacterReflections on the Nature of Ethics* = New to this edition
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Lee A. Jacobus
Lee A. Jacobus is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and the author/editor of popular English and drama textbooks, among them The Bedford Introduction to Drama and A World of Ideas. He has written scholarly books on Paradise Lost, on the works of John Cleveland, and on the works of Shakespeare, including Shakespeare and the Dialectic of Certainty. He is also a playwright and author of fiction. Two of his plays — Fair Warning and Long Division — were produced in New York by the American Theater of Actors, and Dance Therapy, three one-act plays, was produced in New York at Where Eagles Dare Theatre. His book Hawaiian Tales: The Girl With Heavenly Eyes (TellMe Press 2014) is a collection of short stories set in Hawaii.
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