《西方文化英文经典选读》基本上涵盖了西方文化发展史上称得上是经典的名家名篇。全书按照古代篇、近代篇、现代篇和当代篇四个模块(并不是严格意义上的史学划分)，设置7个单元，每个单元里的各个章节包括“生平简介”、“经典导读”、“原文选读”、“问题思考”4个环节。为了培养学生们的自主学习能力，为了培养学生们速查工具书的文献检索能力，《西方文化英文经典选读》编者特意避免了目前国内大多数类似教材中对生词和难句注释大包大揽的做法，而采取了保持原文经典原汁原味的做法。

Foreword (总序)
Preface (前言)
The Ancient Times (古代篇)
Unit One: The Discovery of the Mind in Ancient Greece
1. Humer: lliad
2. Socrates: Apology
3. Plato: The Republic
4. Aristotle: Metaphysics
Unit Two: The Power and Authority in Ancient Rome
5. Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
6. Marcus Aurelius: The Meditations
Unit Three: The Church and Religion in the Middle Ages
7. The Holy Bible
8. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
The Modern Times (近代篇)
Unit Four: The Rise of Humanism in Renaissance and Reformation
9. Nicolaus Copernicus: The Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs
10. Nicolo Machiavelli: The Prince
11. Martin Luther: A Treatise on Christian Liberty
12. John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
Unit Five: New Dimensions of the Mind from the Enlightenment
13. Isaac Newton: Mathematical Principles of Nat'ural Philosophy
14. Rene Descartes: Discourse on the Method
15. John Locke: Of Civil Government
16. Immanuel Kant: What Is Enlightenment?
17. Charles de Mon tesquieu: The Spirit of Laws
18. Jean-Jacques Rousseu: Emile, or, on Education
The Era of Contemporary (现代篇)
Unit Six: The New Toughts Movement in the 19th Century
19. Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
20. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy
21. Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
22. Marx and Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party
23. Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
24. Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams
The Present Times (当代篇)
Unit Seven: Hybridity of Global Multiculture in the 20th Century
25. Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
26. Jean-Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness
27. Fredric Jameson.. Postmodemism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
28. Michel Foucault: Madness and Civilization
Appendix (附录):西方文化大事要览
References (参考文献)