The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written The History of Though from Ancient Times to Today,9780806521923

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written The History of Though from Ancient Times to Today

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ISBN13: 9780806521923
ISBN10: 0806521929
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Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): Citadel Pr
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Summary

For every literate person, this volume enlightens as is entertains. Seymour-Smith identifies those books that have most shaped our political, economic, and social lives, for better or worse. Therefore, Mao's "Little Red Book" and Marx's "Kapital" stand beside the New Testament and Mill's "On Liberty". Photos and drawings throughout.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Photo Credits xii
Introduction xiii
The I Ching
3(5)
The Old Testament
8(5)
The Iliad and The Odyssey
13(6)
Homer
The Upanishads
19(5)
The Way and Its Power
24(5)
Lao-tzu
The Avesta
29(6)
Analects
35(5)
Confucius
History of the Peloponnesian War
40(4)
Thucydides
Works
44(3)
Hippocrates
Works
47(6)
Aristotle
History
53(5)
Herodotus
The Republic
58(8)
Plato
Elements
66(5)
Euclid
The Dhammapada
71(5)
The Aeneid
76(4)
Virgil
On the Nature of Reality
80(5)
Lucretius
Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws, Philo of Alexandria
85(3)
The New Testament
88(4)
Lives
92(4)
Plutarch
Annals, From the Death of the Divine Augustus
96(4)
Cornelius Tacitus
The Gospel of Truth
100(7)
Meditations
107(5)
Marcus Aurelius
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
112(4)
Sextus Empiricus
Enneads
116(5)
Plotinus
Confessions, Augustine of Hippo
121(6)
The Koran
127(5)
Guide for the Perplexed
132(3)
Moses Maimonides
The Kabbalah
135(5)
Summa Theologiae
140(4)
Thomas Aquinas
The Divine Comedy
144(5)
Dante Alighieri
In Praise of Folly
149(5)
Desiderius Erasmus
The Prince
154(5)
Niccolo Machiavelli
On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
159(5)
Martin Luther
Gargantua and Pantagruel
164(4)
Francois Rabelais
Institutes of the Christian Religion
168(4)
John Calvin
On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs
172(4)
Nicolaus Copernicus
Essays
176(5)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Don Quixote, Parts I and II
181(5)
Miguel de Cervantes
The Harmony of the World
186(4)
Johannes Kepler
Novum Organum
190(4)
Francis Bacon
The First Folio
194(5)
William Shakespeare
Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems
199(4)
Galileo Galilei
Discourse on Method
203(8)
Rene Descartes
Leviathan
211(4)
Thomas Hobbes
Works
215(6)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Pensees
221(6)
Blaise Pascal
Ethics
227(5)
Baruch de Spinoza
Pilgrim's Progress
232(5)
John Bunyan
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
237(5)
Isaac Newton
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
242(4)
John Locke
The Principles of Human Knowledge
246(5)
George Berkeley
The New Science
251(5)
Giambattista Vico
A Treatise of Human Nature
256(4)
David Hume
The Encyclopedia
260(5)
Denis Diderot
A Dictionary of the English Language
265(5)
Samuel Johnson
Candide
270(4)
Francois-Marie de Voltaire
Common Sense
274(4)
Thomas Paine
An Enquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
278(3)
Adam Smith
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
281(5)
Edward Gibbon
Critique of Pure Reason
286(4)
Immanuel Kant
Confessions
290(6)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reflections on the Revolution in France
296(4)
Edmund Burke
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
300(4)
Mary Wollstonecraft
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
304(5)
William Godwin
An Essay on the Principle of Population
309(4)
Thomas Robert Malthus
Phenomenology of Spirit
313(6)
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The World as Will and Idea
319(5)
Arthur Schopenhauer
Course in the Positivist Philosophy
324(4)
Auguste Comte
On War
328(5)
Carl Marie von Clausewitz
Either/Or
333(5)
Soren Kierkegaard
The Manifesto of the Communist Party
338(5)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
``Civil Disobedience,''
343(5)
Henry David Thoreau
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
348(4)
Charles Darwin
On Liberty
352(4)
John Stuart Mill
First Principles
356(5)
Herbert Spencer
``Experiments With Plant Hybrids,''
361(4)
Gregor Mendel
War and Peace
365(5)
Leo Tolstoy
Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
370(5)
James Clerk Maxwell
Thus Spake Zarathustra
375(5)
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Interpretation of Dreams
380(5)
Sigmund Freud
Pragmatism
385(4)
William James
Relativity
389(6)
Albert Einstein
The Mind and Society
395(5)
Vilfredo Pareto
Psychological Types
400(4)
Carl Gustav Jung
I and Thou
404(4)
Martin Burber
The Trial
408(6)
Franz Kafka
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
414(4)
Karl Popper
The General Theory of Employment Interst, and Money
418(4)
John Maynard Keynes
Being and Nothingness
422(5)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Road to Serfdom
427(6)
Friedrich von Hayek
The Second Sex
433(5)
Simone de Beauvoir
Cybernetics
438(4)
Norbert Wiener
Nineteen Eighty-Four
442(5)
George Orwell
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
447(6)
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
Philosophical Investigations
453(5)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Syntactic Structures
458(5)
Noam Chomsky
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
463(5)
T.S. Kuhn
The Feminine Mystique
468(3)
Betty Friedan
Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung
471(5)
Mao Zedong
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
476(5)
B. F. Skinner
Authors, Titles, and Publishers of the 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written 481(4)
Index 485

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