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Great Books Reading and Discussion Group with Tom

Please join us to discuss "The Theory of the Leisure Class" by Thorstein Veblen. This is a hybrid event.

Sample a “tasting menu” of great literature and philosophy in the library’s Great Books program, now in its seventeenth year. Participants find the Shared Inquiry™ approach, popularized by the Chicago-based Great Books Foundation, to be a powerful learning tool. Re-connect with an author you have loved, or discover a new one! Pick up a copy of the Great Conversations 1 anthology at the first floor Customer Services desk for a materials fee of $10. For more information, e-mail Tom Cohn at tom_cohn@huntlib.org. Check out our blog at hplgreatbooks.blogspot.com.  Registration is required to receive Zoom sign-in via email. 

Thorstein Veblen was an economist whose most famous work, “The Theory of the Leisure Class,” ranges far beyond the boundaries of his discipline. Veblen sees human history as essentially a war between our diligent nature (necessary for production of goods) and our materialistic nature (necessary for consumption of goods).  Hand in hand with consumption comes the desire to flaunt one’s wealth. Many have read “The Theory of the Leisure Class” not as an academic treatise but as a satirical view of humanity as recorded from the vantage point of an alien visitor.

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