Reading the World: Ideas That Matter

by Michael Austin

Book Overview

With 77 readings by some of the world's great thinkers, Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective, allowing students to explore the development of ideas across... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393933490
• ISBN13: 9780393933499
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A great textbook for college students!

I have taught two college-level writing courses with this book, and I continue to be impressed with the scope of its readings. Unlike every other "great-ideas" reader that I have ever seen, READING THE WORLD actually reads, well, the world. It includes many of the traditional Western authors that are common in such collections (Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Martin Luther Francis Bacon, Rousseau, Hobbes, Martin Luther King, etc.), but it adds to the mix a VERY generous assortment of classical non-Western thinkers as well (Sun-Tzu, Mencius, Shotoku, Kenyatta, Gotama, Al-Ghazali, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and many more). I am glad that someone believes--and that some major textbook publishers are beginning to see--that "diversity" in education means a lot more than just the social divisions of American in the 20th and 21st century. There is a very big world out there waiting to be read, and READING THE WORLD is a pretty good place to start.