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

by Seymour-Smith, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780806521923
• ISBN10: 0806521929
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Citadel Pr

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