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Analytical psychology 1

#347 · 1957-61 (recorded conversations with Aniela Jaffé); published 1962

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Late (the major autobiographical work))

Carl Gustav Jung

Jung's late autobiography — the major source for his personal-spiritual development

Analytical psychology / Cold War cultural criticism 1

#927 · 1957 (Schweizer Monatshefte; book edition Rascher, Zurich; English trans. R.F.C. Hull, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1958)

The Undiscovered Self (Late (one of Jung's last short works, written at 82))

Carl Gustav Jung

The mass society and the totalitarian state are the external symptoms of an inner condition — the undiscovered Self

Analytical psychology / Depth psychology 2

#1322 · 1912

Psychology of the Unconscious (Early)

Carl Gustav Jung

Jung's 1912 book marking break from Freud

#1323 · 1957-61 (composed); 1962 (German); 1963 (English)

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Late)

Carl Gustav Jung

Jung's 1961 posthumous autobiography

Analytical psychology / depth psychology 1

#408 · 1912 (revised 1952)

Symbols of Transformation (Early (the 1912 break-from-Freud book; revised in 1952 as the mature statement of analytical psychology's mythopoeic register))

Carl Gustav Jung

The libido as not solely sexual but generally psychic energy — the archetypal substrate of myth, religion, and the collective unconscious

Analytical psychology / depth-psychological theology 1

#344 · 1952

Answer to Job (Late)

Carl Gustav Jung

God as undergoing development through human encounter — Jung's 1952 engagement with Job

Analytical psychology / Jungian depth psychology 1

#925 · 1951 (Aion: Untersuchungen zur Symbolgeschichte, Rascher, Zurich; English trans. R.F.C. Hull, Collected Works vol. 9, pt II, 1959)

Aion (Late (one of Jung's last and most ambitious works, written in his mid-seventies))

Carl Gustav Jung

The Christ-symbol is the symbol of the Self — and the historical "age of Aion" demands the integration of the shadow that the Christ-image has projected outward

Analytical psychology / visionary literature 1

#926 · 1914-30 (composed in calligraphic script with painted illuminations; published 2009 by W. W. Norton, ed. Sonu Shamdasani)

The Red Book (Middle (the personal experimental record from which all of Jung's later theoretical work emerged))

Carl Gustav Jung

The seed-text of Jungian depth psychology — Jung's personal record of the active-imagination experiments that produced the archetypal framework

Ancient Egyptian / Amarna theology 1

#1893 · c. 1350–1335 BCE

Boundary Stelae and Amarna Inscriptions (attributed)

Nefertiti and Akhenaten (attributed)

The sole god whose light creates all things — the inscriptions that defined the most radical theological revolution in ancient Egypt

Andalusian-Islamic Sufism (Akbarian school) 2

#483 · c. 1202-31

al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Revelations) (Late)

Ibn ʿArabī (Muḥyī al-Dīn)

Ibn ʿArabī's monumental 37-volume Sufi philosophical encyclopedia — the great compendium of Akbarian Sufism

#482 · c. 1229

Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam (Bezels of Wisdom) (Late)

Ibn ʿArabī (Muḥyī al-Dīn)

Ibn ʿArabī's c. 1229 foundational Sufi mystical-philosophical masterwork — 27 chapters on prophets

Anglican apologetic / philosophical theology 1

#167 · 1940

The Problem of Pain (Mid (post-conversion, pre-Narnia))

C. S. Lewis

A theodicy in ten chapters — the goodness and omnipotence of God reconciled with suffering through human fallenness, the necessity of moral freedom, and divine love as deeper than divine kindness

Anglican Christianity / classical Christian apologetics 1

#29 · 1941–44 (BBC talks); 1952 (single-volume book form)

Mere Christianity

C. S. Lewis

The "trilemma" of Lord, liar, or lunatic; the moral law as evidence of a moral Lawgiver; the common Christianity beneath denominational difference

Anglican Christianity / natural law tradition 1

#131 · 1943 (Riddell Memorial Lectures, Durham, 1942)

The Abolition of Man

C. S. Lewis

Without the natural law, "man's power over nature" becomes some men's power over other men — and the conditioners abolish the very humanity they claim to perfect

Anglo-American classical liberalism / Lockean natural rights 1

#1120 · 1776 (June drafted, July 4 adopted)

Declaration of Independence (Early)

Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson's 1776 statement of American independence — the foundational text of the American polity

Anglo-American classical liberalism / Religious-disestablishment tradition 1

#1121 · 1777 (drafted), 1786 (enacted)

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (Early)

Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson's 1786 statute disestablishing religion in Virginia — foundational text of religious-liberty law

Anglo-American classical liberalism / Whig-revolutionary tradition 1

#1122 · 1774

A Summary View of the Rights of British America (Early)

Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson's 1774 pamphlet on the rights of British America — the polemical foundation of his constitutional thought

Anglo-American liberal political philosophy 2

#48 · 1971; revised edition 1999

A Theory of Justice

John Rawls

Justice is fairness — the principles rational persons would choose behind a veil of ignorance, ignorant of their own social position

#147 · 1993 (revised 1996, with new introduction)

Political Liberalism (Late)

John Rawls

How a free society can be just under the permanent fact of reasonable disagreement about comprehensive doctrines — public reason, overlapping consensus, and the political conception of justice

Anglo-American logical-empiricist philosophy of science 1

#434 · 1965

Aspects of Scientific Explanation (Mid)

Carl G. Hempel

Hempel's 1965 essay collection — the deductive-nomological (covering-law) account of scientific explanation

Anglo-American modernism / Anglo-Catholic religious drama 1

#1169 · 1935

Murder in the Cathedral (Mid)

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Eliot's 1935 verse drama — the 1170 martyrdom of Thomas Becket; church-state confrontation as religious-political tragedy

Anglo-American modernism / Anglo-Catholic religious poetry 1

#1168 · 1927-1930

Ash-Wednesday (Mid)

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Eliot's 1930 long poem — first major work after his 1927 conversion to Anglo-Catholicism

Anglo-American modernism / Modern poetry 1

#1167 · 1910-11 (drafted), 1915 (published)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Early)

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Eliot's 1915 dramatic monologue — early modernist breakthrough; the inhibited consciousness of J. Alfred Prufrock

Anglo-American modernist poetry 1

#676 · 1944-46 (composed); 1947 (published)

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (Mid)

W.H. Auden

Auden's 1947 foundational long poem — "the age of anxiety" defining post-WWII spiritual condition

Anglo-American post-Wittgensteinian philosophy 1

#436 · 1958

The Uses of Argument (Early)

Stephen Toulmin

Toulmin's 1958 foundational work on the structure of practical argument

Anglo-American post-Wittgensteinian philosophy of science 1

#437 · 1958

Patterns of Discovery (Early)

Norwood Russell Hanson

Hanson's 1958 foundational work on the theory-ladenness of observation in science

Anglo-American poststructuralist feminism 2

#395 · 1990

Gender Trouble (Early)

Judith Butler

Butler's 1990 foundational work — gender as performative, not expressive of pre-given identity

#396 · 1993

Bodies That Matter (Early)

Judith Butler

Butler's 1993 elaboration of the performativity thesis — bodies and materiality

Anglo-American utilitarian ethics 1

#686 · 1975

Animal Liberation (Mid)

Peter Singer

Singer's 1975 foundational animal-rights text — speciesism is unjustifiable discrimination

Anglo-Austrian post-positivist philosophy of science 1

#432 · 1975 (1st edn); 1988 (2nd); 1993 (3rd)

Against Method (Mid)

Paul Feyerabend

Feyerabend's 1975 anarchist philosophy of science — "anything goes"

Anglo-Canadian critical political economy 1

#716 · 2007

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Late)

Naomi Klein

Klein's 2007 foundational text — "disaster capitalism" exploits crises to impose unpopular neoliberal reforms

Anglo-Catholic / Religious-cultural conservatism 1

#1170 · 1939

The Idea of a Christian Society (Mid)

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Eliot's 1939 prose lectures — proposal for a properly-Christian organisation of British political-cultural life

Anglo-Hungarian post-Popperian philosophy of science 1

#431 · 1978 (posthumous; key essays from 1968-71)

The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes (Late)

Imre Lakatos

Lakatos's 1978 posthumous philosophy of scientific research programmes

Anglo-Irish conservative political thought 1

#459 · 1790

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Late)

Edmund Burke

Burke's 1790 foundational conservative critique of the French Revolution

Anglo-Irish idealism / philosophy of mathematics / Anglican polemic 1

#1594 · 1734

The Analyst (Late)

George Berkeley

Berkeley's 1734 'The Analyst' — 'ghosts of departed quantities' — the philosophical critique of Newton's infinitesimal calculus

Anti-colonial / decolonisation theory / French Caribbean intellectual tradition 1

#1586 · 1959

A Dying Colonialism (Middle (during Algerian war))

Frantz Fanon

Fanon's 1959 'A Dying Colonialism' — the Algerian revolution as social-cultural transformation

Antiochene Christianity / Literal-historical exegesis 1

#1706 · c. 390 CE

Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew

John Chrysostom

The Golden Mouth on the First Gospel — every passage a moral demand, every parable a call to share wealth and serve the poor

Arabic rihla (travel writing) literature 1

#1785 · 1355 (dictated at the court of Abu Inan, the Marinid sultan of Fez)

Rihla (The Travels)

Ibn Battuta (dictated to Ibn Juzayy)

Seventy-five thousand miles over thirty years — the most comprehensive firsthand account of the fourteenth-century world, from Tangier to Hangzhou

Archaic Greek choral lyric / Panhellenic festival poetry 1

#1720 · c. 476–452 BCE

Olympian Odes

Pindar

The flash of divine radiance in the athlete's triumph — glory, brevity, and the poet's immortalising song

Archaic Greek didactic poetry / cosmogonic myth 1

#1718 · c. 700 BCE

Theogony

Hesiod

From Chaos came Earth, from Earth came Sky, from strife came order: the genealogy of the gods as the first Greek cosmology

Archaic Greek epic 1

#1717 · c. 750–700 BCE

Iliad

Homer

The anger of Achilles, the pity of war, and the mortal condition illuminated by divine fire

Archaic Greek lyric poetry 1

#1719 · c. 600 BCE

Fragments

Sappho

The body as instrument of knowing, desire as revelation, the personal voice against the silence of time

Archaic Greek lyric poetry / Athenian legal tradition 1

#1834 · c. 594–560 BCE

Poems and Laws (fragments)

Solon

Eunomia or dysnomia — the citizen-poet argues that only justice can save the city from itself

Archaic Greek tragedy / Dionysiac festival 1

#1835 · c. 534 BCE onward

Fragments and Testimonia

Thespis of Icaria

The first actor steps out of the chorus — ritual becomes theatre, and a new way of knowing the human condition is born

Aristotelian natural history / Dominican scholasticism 1

#1769 · c. 1258–1262

De Animalibus

Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus)

Experiment alone certifies in these things — the Universal Doctor observes nature on its own terms

Aristotelian natural philosophy / biology / methodology of science 1

#1553 · c. 350-340 BC

Parts of Animals (Middle)

Aristotle

Aristotle's 'Parts of Animals' — comparative anatomy and the methodology of biology

Athenian Old Comedy 1

#1721 · 423 BCE (first version; revised c. 418–416 BCE)

The Clouds

Aristophanes

When philosophy meets farce: Socrates in a basket, the Clouds as new gods, and the Thinkery in flames

Augustan Latin lyric, adapting Greek Aeolic tradition 1

#1727 · c. 23–13 BCE (Books I–III published c. 23 BCE; Book IV c. 13 BCE)

Odes

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

Seize the day, love the mean, build in verse what bronze cannot outlast

Australian/British analytic philosophy / moral skepticism 1

#739 · 1977

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (Late)

J. L. Mackie

Mackie's 1977 founding work of moral error theory — "there are no objective values"

Austrian school / Brentanian intentionality tradition 1

#550 · 1874

Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt) (Early)

Franz Brentano

Brentano's 1874 foundational text — introducing intentionality as the mark of the mental

Avant-garde jazz / Cosmic-jazz / Afrofuturism 4

#1185 · 1965 (recorded), 1966 (released)

The Magic City (Mid)

Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount)

Sun Ra's 1966 album — major early-cosmic-jazz statement; the title-track's 27-minute side-long composition

#1183 · 1967-69 (recorded), 1969 (released)

Atlantis (Mid)

Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount)

Sun Ra's 1969 album — electronic-Moog experiments and Afrofuturist mythology in cosmic-jazz form

#1184 · 1978 (recorded August 17, 1978; released 1978)

Lanquidity (Late)

Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount)

Sun Ra's 1978 album — late-cosmic-jazz fusion of free-jazz, funk, and electronic textures

#1186 · c. 1957-1993 (recordings); compiled discography in scholarship 1990s-onward

Sun Ra Discography (Late)

Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount)

The Sun Ra Saturn-label discography — c. 100+ albums across c. 1957-1993

Bahá'í Faith 8

#338 · 1858

The Hidden Words (Early)

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

Bahá'u'lláh's aphoristic spiritual sayings

#1351 · 1860s-70s

Tablets to the Political Leaders (Mature)

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

Bahá'u'lláh's 1860s-70s tablets to monarchs and pope

#289 · 1862 (composed in Baghdad in two days and two nights, in response to questions from one of the Báb's maternal uncles)

Kitáb-i-Íqán (Mid (pre-declaration in 1863))

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

The "Book of Certitude" — Bahá'u'lláh's 1862 major doctrinal work, the principal theological text of the Bahá'í Faith

#290 · 1873 (in 'Akká, the prison-city where Bahá'u'lláh was exiled)

Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Late (the major late doctrinal-legal book))

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

"The Most Holy Book" — Bahá'u'lláh's 1873 book of laws, the principal legal-doctrinal text of the Bahá'í Faith

#1353 · 1880s

Tabernacle of Unity (Late)

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

Bahá'u'lláh's 1880s tablets on religious unity

#959 · 1891 (composed in 'Akká)

Letters to the Son of the Wolf (Last (less than a year before his 1892 death))

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

A defense of the Bahá'í Faith and a survey of its essential teachings — addressed to an Iranian cleric who had ordered Bahá'í executions

#1352 · c. 1865

Tablet of Ahmad (Mature)

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

Bahá'u'lláh's 1865 prayer tablet

#1354 · c. 1890

Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih) (Late)

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

Bahá'u'lláh's tablet — eleven leaves of practical-religious wisdom

Bahá'í Faith / Sufi mystical tradition 1

#958 · c. 1856 (Seven Valleys) and c. 1858 (Four Valleys), both Baghdad period

Seven Valleys and Four Valleys (Early (composed before the 1863 proclamation))

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

The mystical seeker passes through seven valleys to attain the presence of the Beloved

Beguine mysticism / Free Spirit 1

#532 · c. 1295

The Mirror of Simple Souls (Le Mirouer des Simples Âmes) (Late)

Marguerite Porete

Marguerite Porete's c. 1295 mystical work — for which she was burned for heresy in 1310

Behavioral economics / heuristics-and-biases 1

#704 · 2011

Thinking, Fast and Slow (Late)

Daniel Kahneman

Kahneman's 2011 foundational behavioral-economic text — System 1 (fast, intuitive) and System 2 (slow, deliberate) thinking

Behavioural decision science 1

#1085 · 2021

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (Late)

Daniel Kahneman

Kahneman et al.'s 2021 study of noise — random variability — as the underappreciated partner of bias in judgment

Behavioural economics 1

#1089 · 2000

Choices, Values, and Frames (Mid)

Daniel Kahneman

Kahneman and Tversky's 2000 collection — prospect theory and its extensions across two decades

Belgian-French ecological-Whiteheadian philosophy 1

#706 · 2003-11 (French in 7 vols; English in 2 vols)

Cosmopolitics (Late)

Isabelle Stengers

Stengers's 2003-11 Cosmopolitics — seven-book philosophical-scientific-ecological project

Bengali Hindu devotional / Brahmo Samaj philosophical poetry 1

#234 · 1910 (Bengali original); 1912 (Tagore's own English prose translation)

Gitanjali (Mid (the Nobel-winning collection))

Rabindranath Tagore

"Where the mind is without fear" — Tagore's Nobel-winning 1910 collection of devotional poems addressed to the divine Beloved, the central source of his international fame

Bengali Hindu philosophical-religious thought / Brahmo Samaj 1

#235 · 1913 (the Hibbert Lectures, Harvard; published 1913)

Sadhana: The Realisation of Life (Mid (the major philosophical prose statement))

Rabindranath Tagore

Sadhana — the realisation of life. Tagore's 1913 Harvard lectures presenting Vedantic-philosophical religious thought for Western audiences

Bengali Renaissance / Brahmo-Samaj universalism / philosophical humanism / Indian spirituality 1

#1570 · 1930 lectures; 1931 publication

The Religion of Man (Late)

Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore's 1931 Hibbert Lectures — the religion of man as humanist-mystical encounter with the supreme person

Bengali Renaissance literature / Indian mythopoeic-philosophical drama 1

#1572 · 1892 (Bengali); 1913 English version (Macmillan)

Chitra (Early-to-middle)

Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore's 1892 verse-play 'Chitra' — the Mahabharata princess Chitrangada's transformation into beauty, and back

Bengali Renaissance literature / Indian nationalism debate / Brahmo-Samaj 1

#1571 · 1907-09 serialised; 1910 publication

Gora (Middle)

Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore's 1910 novel 'Gora' — Hindu orthodoxy, Brahmo reform, and the discovery of universal humanity

Bergsonian process-philosophy / French spiritualist tradition / philosophical psychology 1

#1663 · 1900s-1913 essays; collected 1919

Mind-Energy (Middle)

Henri Bergson

Bergson's 1919 'L'Énergie spirituelle' — essays on consciousness, dreams, telepathy, and the soul-body relation

Berlin Society for Empirical Philosophy / logical empiricism 1

#665 · 1928

The Philosophy of Space and Time (Philosophie der Raum-Zeit-Lehre) (Mid)

Hans Reichenbach

Reichenbach's 1928 foundational philosophy of space and time — relativistic philosophy of space-time

Big-history / Graphic-novel popularisation 1

#1162 · 2020 (vol. 1), 2021 (vol. 2), 2024 (vol. 3); — series ongoing

Sapiens: A Graphic History (Late)

Yuval Noah Harari

Harari's 2020-24 graphic adaptation of Sapiens with David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave

Big-history / Information-political-history 1

#1161 · 2024

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks (Late)

Yuval Noah Harari

Harari's 2024 macro-history of information — from stone-age stories to artificial intelligence

Big-history / Macro-historical synthesis 1

#1159 · 2011 (Hebrew), 2014 (English)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Mid)

Yuval Noah Harari

Harari's 2011 popular-history synthesis — Homo sapiens from cognitive revolution to scientific-capitalist present

Big-history / Popular political-technological essay 1

#1160 · 2018

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Mid)

Yuval Noah Harari

Harari's 2018 essays — 21 contemporary challenges from artificial intelligence to nationalism to terrorism

Black feminism / Black feminist epistemology 1

#646 · 1990 (2nd edn 2000)

Black Feminist Thought (Mid)

Patricia Hill Collins

Hill Collins's 1990 foundational text — Black feminist epistemology and the "matrix of domination"

Black feminism / intersectional feminism 1

#400 · 1984

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Early)

bell hooks

hooks's 1984 foundational Black feminist statement — from margin to center

Black feminist / Marxist theory 1

#645 · 1981

Women, Race & Class (Mid)

Angela Y. Davis

Davis's 1981 foundational Black-feminist Marxist analysis of women, race, and class

Black feminist autobiographical-political writing 1

#370 · 1980

The Cancer Journals (Mid)

Audre Lorde

Lorde's 1980 prose memoir on breast cancer diagnosis and mastectomy — the major early feminist-political analysis of women's health

Black feminist thought / intersectional theory 1

#230 · 1984 (collecting essays and speeches from the 1970s and early 1980s)

Sister Outsider (Mid (the major prose collection of Lorde's career))

Audre Lorde

"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" — Lorde's 1984 collection of essays on race, gender, sexuality, age, and class as inseparable dimensions of identity and struggle

Black liberation theology 2

#232 · 1970 (the second of Cone's books and the systematic statement of the position announced in Black Theology and Black Power, 1969)

A Black Theology of Liberation (Early (the systematic founding text of the field))

James Cone

"God is black" — Cone's 1970 systematic theology, the founding text of black liberation theology

#233 · 2011

The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Late (Cone's major late book))

James Cone

The cross of Christ and the American lynching tree as parallel sites of innocent suffering — Cone's late major work integrating theological symbolism with the historical record of racial violence

Black liberation theology / African-American intellectual history / Christian-Islamic comparative ethics 1

#1681 · 1991

Martin & Malcolm & America (Mid-to-late)

James Cone

Cone's 1991 'Martin & Malcolm & America' — comparative theological-political study of King and Malcolm X

Black liberation theology / African-American intellectual history / prophetic Christianity 1

#1597 · 2014

Black Prophetic Fire (Late)

Cornel West

West's 2014 'Black Prophetic Fire' — dialogues with Christa Buschendorf on six Black prophetic figures

Black liberation theology / Christian socialism / African-American philosophical thought 1

#1596 · 1982

Prophesy Deliverance! (Early)

Cornel West

West's 1982 'Prophesy Deliverance!' — Afro-American revolutionary Christianity as synthesis of prophetic Christianity and progressive Marxism

Black-feminist / Lesbian autobiography 1

#1100 · 1982

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Late)

Audre Lorde

Lorde's 1982 "biomythography" — the prose-poetic memoir of her Harlem-Caribbean childhood, the women who shaped her, the becoming of "Zami"