"Lao Tzu. Plato. Wayne Booth. Desmond Tutu. Toni Morrison. These are some of the great thinkers included in Reading the World. And because great ideas are not expressed in words alone, this collection includes drawings, paintings, and photographs, among them Picasso's Guernica and a selection from Carl Jung's The Red Book. Organized around eight universal themes, readings strike a balance between the West and the rest of the world, classic and contemporary, verbal and visual. " --