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The Man Without Qualities
novel by Robert Musil
The Glass Bead Game
novel by Hermann Hesse (1943)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
1935 essay by Walter Benjamin; proposes that mechanical reproduction devalues the aura of an artwork, that—in the age of mechanical reproduction and traditional ritualistic value’s absence—art production would be inherently based on political praxis
The Revolt of the Masses
1929 essay by José Ortega y Gasset
The Society of the Spectacle
essay by Guy Debord
Antigone
play written by Jean Anouilh
What Is Life?
1944 non-fiction work by Erwin Schrödinger
The Black Swan
non-fiction work by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Against Method
1975 book by Paul Feyerabend
The Postmodern Condition
1979 non-fiction work by Jean-François Lyotard
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
essay by Georg Lukács
The Story of Art
book by Ernst Gombrich
The Concept of the Political
non-fiction work by Carl Schmitt
The Moral Landscape
essay by Sam Harris
On Revolution
1963 non-fiction work by Hannah Arendt
The Philosophical Review
academic journal
A Thousand Plateaus
1980 book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
I and Thou
1923 non-fiction work by Martin Buber
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
essay by Erich Auerbach
The Sleepwalkers
novel by Hermann Broch
The Closing of the American Mind
book by Allan Bloom
Process and Reality
book by Alfred North Whitehead
Justice as Fairness
Publication
The Righteous Mind
book by Jonathan Haidt
Why I am an Atheist
essay by Bhagat Singh
On Practice
philosophical essay by Mao Zedong
Language, Truth, and Logic
philosophical book by A. J. Ayer
Laughter
collection of three essays by Henri Bergson
Heidegger Gesamtausgabe
book
After Virtue
book by Alasdair MacIntyre
The Sublime Object of Ideology
book by Slavoj Žižek
Thick Black Theory
treatise
Noûs
Noûs is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal on philosophy published by Wiley-Blackwell. It was established in 1967 by Hector-Neri Castañeda and is currently edited by Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University). The journal is accompanied by two annual supplements, Philosophical Issues and Philosophical Perspectives.
Totality and Infinity
essay by Emmanuel Levinas
The Monist
academic journal
Between Past and Future
book by Hannh Arendt
Theory and History
non-fiction work by Ludwig von Mises
Critique of Cynical Reason
literary work
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
book by Michael Sandel
American Philosophical Quarterly
journal
Blue and Brown Books
book by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Concept of Mind
1949 book by Gilbert Ryle critiquing Cartesian mind-body dualism; introduced the 'ghost in the machine' critique and the knowing-how / knowing-that distinction later foundational to Peter Naur's theory of programming