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Books that mark the history of the Humanities since early-modern humanism
(for heuristic purposes only)
Simon During
The point of this list is to help us come to terms with shifts that are reshaping our sense of the
humanities, by which I mean the global humanities (rather than various local humanities) as
they now exist for the worldwide university system.
The humanities are increasingly being considered as a meta-discipline, by which I mean that
those who work in disciplines like history, philosophy, cultural studies . are increasingly
regarded as being just in the humanities. That is especially true from the outsidei.e. as the
humanities are seen by administrators, politicians and the general public.
So it is time for us to think more carefully about what is at stake in this new perspective on the
humanities. Revisionary histories and theories are required.
In this context, three features of the longue dure humanities seem especially relevant.
First, they are divided between their ideal and their material conceptualizations: between
being understood as forms of knowledge which express and develop general human values
and understanding, and being understood just as a discipline (or faculty or school) or suite of
disciplines within the university system.
Second, their history is marked by quite radical transformations and mutations, of which the
most important happened in the late sixties and is still in play. But, at least for me, they still
centre on Philosophy, History, the Classics and the study of Language and Literature.
Third, although at the moment the humanities can only be conceived as simultaneously
transnational and Western, that may become decreasingly true, to the degree that South
Asian and Chinese universities (say) can draw on their own traditions and insert them into
the global academy.
As to the list itself: it confines itself to one book per author; it isnt too fussed about the very
fuzzy border between the social sciences and the humanities; it is chronological; it begins with
what we used to call Renaissance Humanism; it tries to avoid being too tied to English
language books; it becomes increasingly arbitrary as it proceeds, especially for the last decade
or two where I have included works that I and some of my Facebook friends think may still
mean something fifty years from now.
I had no hard and fast criterion in drawing up the list, but did consider a number of factors
including:
1. Fame.
2. Influence on other scholars especially across languages and disciplines.
3. Innovation: I tried to include books that ground, or are regarded as grounding, new
disciplines, sub-disciplines or movements.
4. Non-technicality: I avoided books that were too specialist, even where they were
famous and innovative.
5. Representativeness: some books here just represent particular shifts and trends across
the humanities.
6. Capacity to contribute to a longue dure narrative about the humanities (which creates a
more conservative canon than some would like).
7. Interest in reflecting on the humanities themselves: I preferred books that themselves
possess a sense of their place in the history that the list signals.
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Dante, Alighieri. De vulgari eloquentia (On the idiocy of the vernacular) (1305)
Mussato, Albertino. Historia Augusta Henrici VII Caesaris (History of Henry VII) (c. 1320)
Petraca, Francesco. Epistolae familiares (Familiar Letters) (c. 1360)
Salutati, Coluccio. De Tyranno (On Tyranny) (1400)
Bruni, Leonardo. Historiarum Florentini populi libri XII (History of the Florentine People in 12 Books)
(1410)
Valla, Lorenzo. De Voluptate (On Pleasure) and De liberio arbitrio (On Free Will) (c. 1433)
Alberti, Leon Battista. De Pittura (On Painting) (1435)
Cusanus, Nicolaus. De Docta Ignorantia (Of Learned Ignorance) (1440)
Biondo, Flavius. Italia illustrate (1474)
Agricola, Rodolphus. De invention dialectica (On Dialectical Invention) (1479)
Ficino, Marsilio. Theologia platonica (Platonic Theology) (1482)
Mirandola, Pico de. De hominis dignitate (Oration on the Dignity of Man) (1496)
Poliziano, Angelo. Miscellanea (1499)
Machiavelli, Niccolo. Il Principe (The Prince) (1513)
Erasmus, Desiderius. Institutio principis Christiani (Education of a Christian Prince) (1516)
More, Thomas. Utopia (1516)
Castiglione, Baldassare. Il Cortegiano (The Courtier) (1528)
Vives, Juan. De Causis Corruptarum Artium (On the Reasons for the Decay of the Arts) (1531)
Agustin, Antonio. Emendationum et opinionum (1550-)
Vasari, Giorgi. Le Vite de' pi eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (The Lives of the Most Eminent
Painters, Sculptors and Architects) (1550)
de las Casas, Bartolom. Brevsima relacin de la destruccin de las Indias (A Short Account of the
Destruction of the Indies) (1552)
Flaccius, Matthias et. al. Ecclesiastica Historia, integram Ecclesiae Christi ideam, quantum ad Locum,
Propagationem, Persecutionem, Tranquillitatem, Doctrinam, Hreses, Ceremonias, Gubernationem,
Schismata, Synodos, Personas, Miracula, Martyria, Religiones extra Ecclesiam, & statum Imperii
politicum attinet, secundum singulas Centurias, perspicuo ordine complectens: singulari diligentia & fide
ex vetustissimis & optimis historicis, patribus, & aliis scriptoribus congesta: Per aliquot studiosos & pios
viros in urbe Magdeburgic (Magdeburg Centuries)
Guicciardini, Francesco. La Storia d'Italia (The History of Italy) (1561)
Ramus, Petrus. Scholae in liberales artes (Lectures in the Liberal Arts) (1569)
Bodin, Jean. Les Six Livres de la Rpublique (The Six Books of the Republic) (1576)
Montaigne, Michel de. Les Essais (Essays) (1580-)
Lipsius, Justus. De Constantia (On Constancy) (1584)
Bruno, Giordano. De linfinito universe et mondi (On the Infinite Universe and Worlds) (1584)
Hooker, Richard. Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity (1594-)
Sidney, Philip. An Apology for Poetry (1695)
Bacon, Francis. Essays (1597-)
Charron, Pierre. De la Sagesse (On Wisdom) (1601-)
Campanella, Tommaso. La citt del sole (The city of the sun) (1602)
Casaubon, Isaac. De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI (1615)
Vossius, Gerhard Johannes. Historia Pelagiana sive Historiae de controversiis quas Pelagius ejusque
reliquiae moverunt, libri VII (1618)
Sarpi, Paolo. Istoria del Concilio Tridentino (History of the Council of Trent) (1619)
Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621-)
Grotius, Hugo. De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) (1625)
Hall, Joseph. Occasional Meditations (1630)
Descartes, Rn. Meditationes de prima philosophia (Meditations on the First Philosophy) (1637)
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Ritson, Joseph. Cursory criticisms on the edition of Shakespeare published by Edmond Malone (1792)
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
Godwin, William. Enquiry concerning Political Justice (1793)
Thelwall, John. The Peripatetic; or, Sketches of the Heart, of Nature and Society; in a Series of Politico-
Sentimental Journals (1793)
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb. Einige Vorlesungen ber die Bestimmung des Gelehrten (Vocation of a Scholar)
(1794)
Schiller, Friedrich. ber die sthetische Erziehung des Menschen (Letters on the Aesthetic Education of
Man) (1794)
Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Penses (1795)
Condorcet, Marie Jean. Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrs de l'esprit humain (Sketch for a
Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind) (1795)
Diderot, Denis. Le Supplment au voyage de Bougainville (Supplement to Bougainvilles Voyage)
(1795)
Maistre, Joseph de. Considrations sur la France (Considerations on France) (1796)
Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
Novalis. Glaube und Liebe (Belief and Love) (1798)
Jones, William. Consideration on the Religious Worship of the Heathens as bearing unanswerable
testimony to the principles of Christianity (1799)
Schleiermacher, ber die Religion: Reden an die Gebildeten unter ihren Verchtern (On Religion:
speeches to its cultural despisers) (1799)
Wordsworth, William. Preface, Lyrical Ballads (1800)
Schelling, F.W.J. System des transzendentalen Idealismus (System of Transcendental Idealism) (1800)
de Bonald, Louis. Du Divorce (On Divorce) (1801)
Strutt, Joseph. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801)
Paley, William. Natural Theology (1802)
Schlegel, August Wilhelm. Vorlesungen ber schner Literatur und Kunst (Lectures on Art and
Literature) (1803)
von Savigny, Friedrich Carl, Das Recht des Besitzes (The Law of Possession) (1803)
Chateaubriand, Jean-Franoise. Gnie de Christianisme (The Genius of Christianity) (1802)
Constant, Benjamin. Principes de Politique Applicables Tous les Gouvernements (Principles of Politics
Applicable to All Governments) (1806-)
Hegel, G.W.F. Die Phnomenologie des Geistes (The Phenomenology of Spirit) (1807)
Sismondi, Jean Charles. Histoire des rpubliques italiennes du Moyen ge (The History of the Italian
Republics in the Middle Ages) (1807)
Fourier, Charles. Thorie des quatre mouvements et des destines gnrales (Theory of the four movements
and the general destinies) (1808)
Schlegel, Frederic. ber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of the
Indies) (1808)
Edgeworth, Richard and Maria Edgeworth. Essays on Professional Education (1809)
Mller, Adam. Elemente der Staatskunst (Elements of Statecraft) (1809)
De Stael, Germaine. De lAllemagne (On Germany) (1810)
Niebuhr, Barthold Georg. Rmische Geshichte (Roman History) (1812-)
Owen, Robert. A New View of Society (1813)
Schubert, Gotthilf Heinrich. Die Symbol des Traumes (The symbolism of dreams) (1813)
Bopp, Franz. ber das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der
griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache (On the system of Sanskrit construction)
(1816)
Lammenais, Flicit de. Essai sur l'indifference en matire de religion (Essay on Indifference in Matters
of Religion) (1817)
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Taine, Hyppolite. Les Origines de la France Contemporaine (The Origins of Contemporary France)
(1875-)
Stephen, Leslie. The History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (1876)
Engels, Friedrich. Anti-Dhring (1877)
Lecky, W.E.H. A History of England during the Eighteenth Century (1878)
Bebel, Augustus. Die Frau und der Sozialismus (Women and Socialism) (1879)
Frege, Gottlob. Begriffschrift: eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denken
(1879)
George, Henry. Progress and Poverty (1879)
Treitschke, Heinrich von. Deutsche Geschichte im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (1879-)
Gurney, Edmund. The Power of Sound (1880)
Lafargue, Paul. Le droit la paresse, (The right to be lazy) (1880)
Morelli, Giovanni. Die Werke italienischer Meister (The Works of the Italian Masters) (1880)
Bakunin, Michail. Gott und der Staat (God and the State) (1882)
Morris, William. Lectures on Art delivered in support of the Society for the Protection of Ancient
Buildings (1882)
Dilthey, Wilhelm. Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften (Introduction to the Humanities) (1883)
Seeley, John. The Expansion of England (1883)
Sumner, William Graham. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)
Green, T.H. Prolegemena to Ethics (1884)
Martineau, James. Types of Ethical Theory (1885)
Royce, Josiah. The Religious Aspect of Philosophy (1885)
Mach, Ernst. Die Analyse der Empfindungen und das Verhltnis des Physischen zum Psychischen (The
Analysis of Sensations) (1886)
Pastor, Ludwig von. Geschichte der Ppste seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters (History of the Popes)
(1886-)
Tnnies, Ferdinand. Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Community and Civil Society) (1887)
Smith, William Robertson. Lectures on the Religion of the Semites (1889-)
Frazer, James. The Golden Bough (1890-)
Churton Collins, John. The Study of English Literature (1891)
Shaw, Bernard. The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
Kropotkin, Peter. La Conqute du Pain (The Conquest of Bread) (1892)
Nordau, Max. Entartung (Degeneration) (1892)
Blondel, Maurice. LAction (1893)
Bradley, F.H. Appearance and Reality (1893)
Huxley, Thomas. Evolution and Ethics (1893)
Laski, Harold. Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1893)
Tarde, Gabriel. Monadologie et sociologie (1893)
Barrs, Maurice. Du sang, de la volupt, de la mort (1894)
Kidd, Benjamin. Social Evolution (1894)
Lanson, Gustave. Histoire de la littrature franaise (1894)
Jellinek, Georg. Die Erklrung der Menschen- und Brgerrechte (Clarifying Human and Civil Rights)
(1895)
Le Bon, Gustave. Pyschologie des Foules (The Crowd) (1895)
Maitland, Fredric. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1895)
Shy, Tsubouchi. Shsetsu shinzui (Essence of the Novel) (1895)
Bergson, Henri. Matire et Mmoire (Matter and Memory) (1896)
Figgis, Neville. The Divine Right of Kings (1896)
Lang, Andrew. The Making of Religion (1898)
Bernstein, Eduard. Die Voraussetzungen des Sozialismus (The Preconditions of Socialism) (1899)
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Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism: a study of the nature and development of Mans spiritual consciousness
(1911)
Belloc, Hilaire. The Servile State (1912)
Butler, Samuel. Notebooks (1912)
Durkheim, mile. Les Formes lmentaires de la vie religieuse (The Elementary Forms of Religious Life)
(1912)
Fenollosa, Ernest. Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art (1912)
Huth, Ricarda. Der groe Krieg in Deutschland (1912-)
Lee, Vernon. Beauty and Ugliness (1912)
Moore, George. Ethics (1912)
Russell, Bertrand. The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
Apollinaire, Guilliame. Les Peintres Cubistes, Mditations Esthtiques (Cubist Painters) (1913)
Beard, Charles. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913)
Duhem, Pierre. Le systme du monde: histoire des doctrines cosmologiques de Platon Copernic (The
System of the World) (1913-)
Loos, Adolf. Ornament und Verbrechen (Ornament and Crime) (1913)
Mackinder, Halford. The Modern British State: an Introduction to the Study of Civics (1914)
Geddes, Patrick. Cities in Evolution (1915)
Wlfflin, Heinrich. Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Das Problem der Stilentwicklung in der neueren
Kunst (Principles of Art History) (1915)
Gentile, Giovanni. Teoria generale della spirito come atto puro (The Theory of Mind as Pure Act)
(1916)
Gundolf, Friederich. Goethe (1916)
Pareto, Vilfredo. Trattato di sociologia generale (The Mind and Society) (1916)
Saussure, Ferdinand de. Cours de linguistique gnrale (Course in General Linguistics) (1916)
Khler, Wolfgang. Intelligenzprfungen an Anthropoiden (The Mentality of Apes) (1917)
Lenin, Vladimir. (Imperialism: the Highest Stage of
Capitalism) (1917)
Otto, Rudolf. Das Heilige - ber das Irrationale in der Idee des Gttlichen und sein Verhltnis zum
Rationalen (The Idea of the Holy) (1917)
Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams (1918)
Bertram, Ernest. Nietzsche: Versuche einer Mythologie (Nietzsche: Attempt at a mythology) (1918)
Bloch, Ernst. Geist der Utopie (The Spirit of Utopia) (1918)
Mann, Thomas. Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen (Reflections of an Unpolitical Man) (1918)
Spengler, Otto. Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West) (1918-)
Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Victorians (1918)
Cohen, Hermann. Religion der Vernunft aus den Quellen des Judentums (Religion of Reason out of the
Sources of Judaism, (1919)
Gropius, Walter. Bauhaus-Manifest (1919)
Valry, Paul. Varit (1919-)
Maritain, Jacques. Art et Scholastique (Art and Scholasticism) (1920)
Tawney, R.H. The Acquisitive Society (1920)
McTaggert, J.M.E. The Nature of Existence (1921)
Rosenzweig, Franz. Der Stern der Erlosung (The Star of Redemption) (1921)
Sapir, Edward. Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech (1921)
Angell, Norman. The Press and the Organization of Society (1922)
Bogdanov, Alexander. Tektologiya: Vseobschaya Organizatsionnaya Nauka (Essays in Tektology: The
General Science of Organization (1922)
Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion (1922)
Malinowski, Bronislaw. Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922)
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Mises, Ludwig von. Die Gewirtschaft: Untersuchungen ber den Sozialismus (Socialism) (1922)
Murry, Middleton. The Problem of Style (1922)
Wells, H.G. A Short History of the World (1922)
Buber, Martin. Ich und Du (I and Thou) (1923)
Cassirer, Ernst. Philosophie der symbolischen Formen (Philosophy of Symbolic Forms) (1923-)
Kroeber, Alfred L. Anthropology (1923)
Peirce, Charles. Chance, Love and Logic (1923)
Lukcs, Georg. Geschichte und Klassenbewutsein: Studien ber marxistische Dialektik (History and
Class Consciousness (1923)
Sturt, George. The Wheelwrights Shop (1923)
Balzs, Bla. Der Sichtbare Mensch (The Visible Man) (1924)
Ball, Hugo. Die Folgen der Reformation (The Consequences of the Reformation) (1924)
Breton, Andr. Manifest des Surralisme (Manifesto of Surrealism) (1924)
Hulme, T.E. Speculations (1924)
Meinecke, Friedrich. Die Idee der Staatsrson in der neueren Geschichte (The Idea of Reason of State in
modern history) (1924)
Plessner, Helmut. Grenzen der Gemeinschaft. Eine Kritik des sozialen Radikalismus, (Limits to
Community: a critique of social radicalism) (1924)
Trotsky, Leo. (Literature and Revolution) (1924)
Abdelaziq, Ali. al-Islm wa-ul al-ukm (Islam and the Principles of Government (1925)
Alain. Propos sur le Bonheur (1925)
Hauriou, Maurice. Prcis de droit constitutionnel (A Summary of Constitutional Law) (1925-)
Mauss, Marcel. Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'change dans les socits archaques (The Gift)
(1925)
Ruggiero, Guido de. Storia del liberalismo europeo (History of Modern Liberalism) (1925)
Shklovsky, Victor. The Art of Prose (1925)
Urea, Pedro Henrquez. La utopa de Amrica (The Utopia of America) (1925)
Whitehead, A.N. Science and the Modern World (1925)
Hussein, Tahah. ( On Pre-Islamic Poetry) (1926)
Yanagi, Setsu. , (The Way of Crafts) (1926)
Benda, Julian. La trahison des clercs (The Betrayal of the Intellectuals) (1927)
Gill, Eric. Christianity and Art (1927)
Heidegger, Martin. Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) (1927)
Kantorowicz, Ernst. Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite (Frederick the Second, 1194-1250) (1927)
Waddell, Helen. The Wandering Scholars (1927)
Carnarp, Rudolf. Der logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World) (1928)
Eddington, Arthur. The Nature of the Physical World (1928)
Grabowsky, Adolf. Staat und Raum: Grundlagen rumlichen Denkens in der Weltpolitik (State and
Space in World Politics) (1928)
Kommerell, Max. Der Dichter als Fhrer in der deutschen Klassik (1928)
Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Western Samoa (1928)
Jonas, Hans. Gnosis und sptantiker Geist (Gnosticism and the spirit of late Antiquity) (1928)
Naville, Pierre. Les Rvolution et les intellectuals (1928)
Propp, Vladimir. (Morphology of the Tale) (1928)
Scheler, Max. Die Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos, (The Human Place in the Cosmos) (1928)
Troeltsch, Ernest. Die Bedeutung des Protestantismus fr die Entstehung de modernen Welt (The
Meaning of Protestantism for the Emergence of the Modern World) (1928)
Ltkens, Charlotte. Staat und Gesellschaft in America (State and Society in America) (1929)
Lynd, Robert S. and Helen Merrill Lynd. Middletown (1929)
Mannheim, Karl. Ideologie und Utopie (Ideology and Utopia) (1929)
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Namier, Lewis. The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (1929)
Richards, I.A. Practical Criticism (1929)
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of ones Own (1929)
Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)
Foerster, Norman (ed.) Humanism and America: Essays on the Outlook of Modern Civilization (1930)
Freud, Sigmund. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and its Discontents) (1930)
Gasset, Ortega y. La rebelin de las masas (The Revolt of the Masses) (1930)
Kolnai, Aurel. Sexualethik (1930)
Praz, Mario. La carne, la morte e il diavolo nella letteratura romantic (The Romantic Agony) (1930)
Butterfield, Herbert. The Whig Interpretation of History (1931)
Wilson, Edmund. Axels Castle: a study in the imaginative literature of 1870-1930 (1931)
Arnheim, Rudolf. Film als Kunst (Film as Art) (1932)
Jnger, Ernst. Der Arbeiter (The Worker) (1932)
Leavis, Q.D. Fiction and the Reading Public (1932)
Niebuhr, Reinhold. Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932)
Schmitt, Carl. Der Begriff des Politischen (The Concept of the Political) (1932)
Dawson, Christopher. The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European
Unity (1932)
Warburg, Aby. Die Erneuerung der heidnischen Antike (The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity) (1932)
Haykal, Muhammad Husayn Haykal. ( The Life of The Noble Prophet Muhammad) (1933)
Jung, Carl. Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart (Modern Man in Search of a Soul) (1933)
Reich, Wilhelm. Massenpsychologie des Faschismus (The Mass Psychology of Fascism) (1933)
Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture (1934)
Dewey, John. Art as Experience (1934)
Evola, Julius. Rivolta contro il mondo modern (Revolt Against the Modern World: Politics, Religion, and
Social Order in the Kali Yuga) (1934)
Mounier, Emmanuel. La rvolution personnaliste et communautaire (The personalist and
communitarian revolution) (1934)
Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization (1934)
Toynbee, Arnold. A Study of History (1934-)
Butler, E.A. The Tyranny of the Greeks over Germany (1935)
Hazard, Paul. La Crise de la Conscience Europenne, 1680-1715 (The Crisis of the European Mind)
(1935)
Spurgeon, Caroline. Shakespearean Imagery (1935)
Ambedkar, B.R. Opposition to Caste (1936)
Ayer, A.J. Language, Truth and Logic (1936)
Gide, Andr. Retour de L'U.R.S.S (Return from the USSR) (1936)
Laswell, Harold. Politics: who gets what, when and how (1936)
Maulnier, Thierry. Au-del nationalisme (Beyond nationalism) (1936)
Parsons, Talcott. The Structure of Social Action (1937)
Artaud, Antoine. Le Thtre et son double (The Theater and Its Double) (1938)
Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens (1938)
James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938)
Merton, Robert. Science, Technology and Society in 17th-Century England (1938)
Bernal, J.D. The Social Function of Science (1939)
Bloch, Marc. La Socit fodale (Feudal Society) (1939)
Collingwood, R.G. An Autobiography (1939)
Elias, Norbert. ber den Proze der Zivilisation (The Civilizing Process) (1939)
de Rougemont, Denis, L'amour et l'Occident (Love in the Western World) (1939)
Neurath, Otto. Modern Man in the Making (1939)
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Curtius, Ernst Robert. Europische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter (European Literature and the
Latin Middle Ages) (1948)
Giedion, Siegfried. Mechanization takes Command: a contribution to anonymous history (1948)
Gramsci, Antonio. Quaderni del carcere (Prison Notebooks) (1948-)
Morgenthau, Hans. Politics among Nations: the struggle for power and peace (1948)
Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in Man and Machine (1948)
Beauvoir, Simone de. Le Deuxime Sexe (The Second Sex) (1949)
Braudel, Ferdinand. La Mditerrane et le monde mditerranen (The Mediterranean and the
Mediterranean World) (1949-)
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
Cioran, Emil. Prcis de dcomposition (A Short History of Decay) ((1949)
Jaspers, Karl. Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte (The origin & goal of History) (1949)
Lwith, Karl. Weltgeschichte und Heilsgeschehen (Meaning in History) (1949)
Poulet, Georges. tudes sur le temps humain (Studies in Human Time) (1956-)
Ryle, Gilbert. The Concept of Mind (1949)
Benjamin, Walter. Illuminationen (Illuminations) (1950)
Halbwachs, Maurice. La Mmoire Collective (On Collective Memory) (1950)
Hook, Sydney. From Hegel to Marx: Studies in the Intellectual Development of Karl Marx (1950)
Innis, Harold. Empire and Communication (1950)
Paz, Octavio. El laberinto de la soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude) (1950)
Riesman, David. The Lonely Crowd: a study of the changing American character (1950)
Trilling, Lionel. The Liberal Imagination (1950)
Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
Camus, Albert. L'homme rvolt (The Rebel) (1951)
Chaudhuri, Nirad. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951)
Dodds, E.R. The Greeks and the Irrational (1951)
Harris, Zellig. Methods in Structural Linguistics (1951)
Hauser, Arnold. Socialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur (Social History of Art and Literature) (1951)
Voegelen, Eric. A New Science of Politics (1951)
Schramm, Walter. The Process and Effects of Communication (1952)
Berlin, Isaiah. The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoys View of History (1953)
Heilbroner, Robert. The Worldly Philosophers; the Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic
Thinkers (1953)
Strauss, Leo. Natural Right and History (1953)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophischen Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations) (1953)
Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921 (1954)
Finley, Moses. The World of Odysseus (1954)
Leach, Edmund. Political Systems of Highland Burma (1954)
Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China (1954-)
Taylor, A.G.P. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848-1918 (1954)
Austin, J.L. How to do Things with Words (1955)
Baron, Hans. The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: civic humanism and republican liberty in an
age of classicism and tyranny (1955)
Blanchot, Maurice. L'Espace littraire (The Space of Literature) (1955)
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