The Great Conversation is a reading group dedicated to reading the great works of Western civilization. The name and original inspiration of the group is Britannica Great Books of the Western World, edited by Mortimer Adler. Adler believed the great books could be viewed as a dialog, a conversation. The goal of our group is to listen in on that conversation and even to begin to participate in it.

For more information, please review the group web page: http://www.greatconversation.org/

Our readings are taken from among the set of the authors in Adler's Great Books anthology following a modified version Adler's ten year plan for reading. We use Adler's ten year reading plan as a guide for the selection of our readings. We will generally follow the authors listed in Adler's suggested reading, but we may choose to read the entirety of particular books by those authors, instead of reading only a small selection as frequently suggested by Adler. The goal is to read many of the original texts of these authors directly and unfiltered.

Anyone is free to join and read. Having a copy of the Britannica Great Books is not required, as these books are also available in other formats by other publishers, such as Penguin.

When you apply for membership below, prior to approving your membership, I will subsequently email you, asking for a response back to me. Please make sure that you check your email (or spam box) for email from me so that you receive my email, otherwise, if I do not receive a reply from you, I will be unable to process your membership request. My email address starts with the following address, stripped of the asterisks:
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