Reading The World: Ideas That Matter

THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATE.

The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective.
With 80 readings by some of the world’s greatest thinkers―from Plato to Gandhi, Carl Jung to Edmund O. Wilson, Gloria Anzaldúa to Toni Morrison―Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective. Selections strike a balance between western and nonwestern, classic and contemporary, longer and shorter, verbal and visual.