50 Classics Series: 50 Philosophy Classics
50 Classics Series: 50 Philosophy Classics
Editor/Author
Butler-Bowdon, Tom
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-85-788596-5
Category: Philosophy
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
A stunning survey of the "king of disciplines," 50 Philosophy Classics seeks to enlighten and explain, rather than merely instruct. Tom Butler-Bowdon has compiled a remarkable group of thinkers and their seminal works to serve as a lively entry point to the field of philosophy. Analyses of ancient and modern philosophers show how philosophy helped shape the events human history.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Hannah Arendt The Human Condition (1958)
- 2 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC)
- 3 A.J. Ayer Language, Truth and Logic (1936)
- 4 Julian Baggini The Ego Trick (2011)
- 5 Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
- 6 Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (1949)
- 7 Jeremy Bentham Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
- 8 Henri Bergson Creative Evolution (1907)
- 9 David Bohm Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980)
- 10 Noam Chomsky Understanding Power (2002)
- 11 Cicero On Duties (44 BC)
- 12 Confucius Analects (5th century BC)
- 13 René Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)
- 14 Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate (1860)
- 15 Epicurus Letters (3rd century BC)
- 16 Michel Foucault The Order of Things (1966)
- 17 Harry Frankfurt On Bullshit (2005)
- 18 Sam Harris Free Will (2012)
- 19 G.W.F. Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
- 20 Martin Heidegger Being and Time (1927)
- 21 Heraclitus Fragments (6th century AD)
- 22 David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
- 23 William James Pragmatism (1907)
- 24 Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
- 25 Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
- 26 Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling (1843)
- 27 Saul Kripke Naming and Necessity (1972)
- 28 Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
- 29 Gottfried Leibniz Theodicy (1710)
- 30 John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
- 31 Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince (1513)
- 32 Marshall McLuhan The Medium Is the Massage (1967)
- 33 John Stuart Mill On Liberty (1859)
- 34 Michel de Montaigne Essays (1580)
- 35 Iris Murdoch The Sovereignty of Good (1970)
- 36 Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
- 37 Blaise Pascal Pensées (1660)
- 38 Plato The Republic (4th century BC)
- 39 Karl Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934)
- 40 John Rawls A Theory of Justice (1971)
- 41 Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract (1762)
- 42 Bertrand Russell The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
- 43 Michael Sandel Justice (2009)
- 44 Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness (1943)
- 45 Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation (1818)
- 46 Peter Singer The Life You Can Save (2009)
- 47 Baruch Spinoza Ethics (1677)
- 48 Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan (2007)
- 49 Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations (1953)
- 50 Slavoj Žižek Living in the End Times (2010)
- 50 More Philosophy Classics
- Glossary
- Credits
- Acknowledgments