Great Books Series

This index is built from local source titles that begin with Great Books #. The descriptions summarize the published Jiang Lens reads, not a new interpretation of the source material.

Chronological Episodes

2026-01-07 - Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe: Great books are presented as initiation out of school materialism and into consciousness.
2026-01-14 - Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human: Homer becomes a mirror for humiliation, pride, speech, and human self-recognition.
2026-01-21 - Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets: Poetry is treated as a civilizational engine that projects worlds into memory.
2026-01-28 - Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe: The Iliad becomes a metaphysics of will, memory, forgiveness, and love.
2026-03-04 - Great Books #5: The Odyssey: The return home becomes the problem of a man whose war story has collapsed.
2026-03-11 - Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love: The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
2026-03-18 - Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer: Rome cannot destroy Homer, so Virgil becomes the anti-Homeric imperial answer.
2026-03-25 - Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire: Virgil trains readers to abandon pity and serve empire through poetry.
2026-04-08 - Great Books #9: Dante: The re-uploaded Dante lecture treats the guide as both necessary and dangerous.
2026-04-08 - Great Books #9: Dante’s La Commedia: Dante’s poem enters memory like a virus and turns hell into chosen obedience.
2026-04-29 - Great Books #10: Dante’s Hierarchy of Hell: Hell is read as imagination turned against itself.
2026-05-22 - Great Books #11: Dante’s Revolution: Dante’s love becomes stronger than the guide who obeys.
2026-05-27 - Great Books #12: Dante in Paradise: Paradise restores imagination and makes humanity part of God’s self-knowledge.
2026-05-29 - Great Books #13: Gay Talese’s Sparks of Light: Talese’s reporting becomes a method for seeing shame, attention, and human detail.

Source Boundary

The duplicate #9 entries are both listed because both have local source metadata and published Jiang Lens reads.