50 PHILOSOPHY CLASSICS
By Tom Butler-Bowdon

A stunning survey of the "king of disciplines," 50 Philosophy Classics seeks to enlighten and explain, rather than merely instruct, highlighting a remarkable group of thinkers and their seminal works. This lively entry point to the field of philosophy analyses of ancient and modern philosophers to show how philosophy helped shape the events human history.

Below is the list of books covered in 50 Philosophy Classics. Click on the links to view sample chapters.

1.     Hannah Arendt The Human Condition (1958)

2.     Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC)

3.     AJ 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 (1952)

7.     Jeremy Bentham Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)

8.     Henri Bergson Creative Evolution (1911)

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.  Rene Descartes Meditations (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.  GWF Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit (1803)

20.  Martin Heidegger Being and Time (1927)

21.  Heraclitus Fragments (6th century)

22.  David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)

23.  William James Pragmatism (1904)

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 Wilhelm Leibniz Theodicy (1710)

30.  John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

31.  Marshall McLuhan The Medium is the Massage (1967)

32.  Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1532)

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 Pensees (1670)

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 (1920)

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 Zizek Living In The End Times (2010)


Source: 50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing - Powerful Thinking From 50 Key Books (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London & Boston).
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"This book explains and discusses briefly, but with remarkable lucidity, some of the ideas of fifty philosophical thinkers from ancient times to the present-day. Complex views on a whole range of important and enduring issues are made accessible to the general reader...The book is enjoyable and instructive." 
 
C.L. Ten, Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore

"50 Philosophy Classics is an impressively wide-ranging compendium of nutshell clarity. It strikes just the right balance between accurate explication, insightful contextual analysis, and breezy illustrative anecdote." 

Dr. Phil Oliver, Department of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University
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