Works

#1081

The Meaning of the Creative Act (Early-mature)

Nikolai Berdyaev · 1916 (Smysl tvorchestva)

Philosophical-theological treatise · Russian religious philosophy

Humanity's creative response to God — Berdyaev's founding statement of his philosophy of creativity

25% christian-personalism 20% existentialism 20% eastern-orthodox-christianity 15% idealism 10% liberal-theology 10% process-philosophy +3

#1082

Consequences of Pragmatism (Mid)

Richard Rorty · 1982

Philosophical essay collection · Neo-pragmatism / Analytic philosophy

Rorty's 1982 essays developing the consequences of dropping representationalist epistemology

30% pragmatism 15% analytic-metaphysics 15% deconstruction 15% naturalism 10% liberalism 10% historicism +3

#1083

Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth (Mid)

Richard Rorty · 1991

Philosophical essay collection · Neo-pragmatism

Rorty's 1991 collected essays — solidarity displaces objectivity as the proper epistemic norm

30% pragmatism 15% analytic-metaphysics 15% historicism 15% liberalism 10% naturalism 10% deconstruction +3

#1084

Judgment Under Uncertainty (Mid)

Daniel Kahneman · 1982

Edited scientific volume · Cognitive psychology / Behavioural economics

Kahneman, Slovic, and Tversky's 1982 volume gathering the founding papers of the heuristics-and-biases programme

30% cognitive-science 25% behavioral-economics 15% evolutionary-psychology 10% naturalism 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% realism +3

#1085

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (Late)

Daniel Kahneman · 2021

Trade non-fiction · Behavioural decision science

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

30% behavioral-economics 20% cognitive-science 10% analytic-metaphysics 15% liberalism 10% naturalism 15% natural-law +3

#1086

Words and Life (Late)

Hilary Putnam · 1994

Philosophical essay collection · Analytic philosophy / Pragmatism

Putnam's 1994 essays marking his pragmatist turn — words, meaning, and the life-world that gives them sense

25% pragmatism 20% analytic-metaphysics 15% realism 10% naturalism 10% historicism 8% analytic-philosophy +3

#1087

The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World (Late)

Hilary Putnam · 1999

Lecture series / Philosophical treatise · Analytic philosophy / Natural realism

Putnam's 1999 Dewey Lectures — "natural realism" undoes the modern dichotomy between mind and world

25% pragmatism 20% analytic-metaphysics 15% phenomenology 15% realism 10% naturalism 8% analytic-philosophy +3

#1088

Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life (Late)

Hilary Putnam · 2008

Philosophical-religious essays · Jewish philosophy / Pragmatism

Putnam's 2008 engagement with modern Jewish philosophy — Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas — and Wittgenstein as religious thinker

25% rabbinic-judaism 20% pragmatism 15% phenomenology 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% liberal-theology 10% existentialism 8% analytic-philosophy +4

#1089

Choices, Values, and Frames (Mid)

Daniel Kahneman · 2000

Edited scientific volume · Behavioural economics

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

30% behavioral-economics 20% cognitive-science 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% naturalism 15% evolutionary-psychology 15% realism +3

#1090

Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam (Late)

John Archibald Wheeler · 1998

Scientific autobiography · Theoretical physics / Foundations of physics

Wheeler's 1998 autobiography — a life with Bohr, Einstein, Feynman, and at the foundations of quantum gravity

20% analytic-metaphysics 15% realism 15% naturalism 10% panpsychism 10% pragmatism 15% eternalism +3

#1091

Quantum Theory and Measurement (Mid)

John Archibald Wheeler · 1983

Edited scientific anthology · Foundations of quantum mechanics

Wheeler and Zurek's 1983 anthology — the canonical collection of foundational papers on quantum measurement

25% analytic-metaphysics 15% realism 10% naturalism 15% pluralism 10% idealism 10% panpsychism +3

#1092

A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime (Late)

John Archibald Wheeler · 1990

Popular-scientific exposition · Foundations of physics / Popular science

Wheeler's 1990 popular exposition — gravity as geometry, mass as curvature in the geometric universe

20% analytic-metaphysics 20% realism 20% eternalism 10% naturalism 10% platonism-classical 10% neutral-monism +3

#1093

Quantum: The Search for Links (Late)

John Archibald Wheeler · 1989

Conference essay / Theoretical-physical paper · Foundations of physics / Information physics

Wheeler's 1989 introduction of "it from bit" — the participatory-universe doctrine

20% analytic-metaphysics 15% panpsychism 15% idealism 10% pragmatism 10% realism 15% cybernetics 10% neutral-monism +4

#1094

My Early Life (Mid)

Winston Churchill · 1930

Autobiography / Memoir · British political-literary tradition / Conservative liberalism

Churchill's 1930 autobiography of his first twenty-six years — Harrow, Sandhurst, India, the Sudan, South Africa, Parliament

20% conservatism 15% liberalism 10% classical-liberalism 10% realism 15% historicism 10% anglican-broad-church +3

#1095

The Gathering Storm (Late)

Winston Churchill · 1948

Historical memoir / War memoir · British political-literary tradition

Churchill's 1948 first volume of his Second World War — the gathering storm of 1919-1940

25% conservatism 20% political-realism 15% historicism 10% liberalism 10% civic-republicanism 10% classical-liberalism +3

#1096

Their Finest Hour (Late)

Winston Churchill · 1949

Historical memoir / War memoir · British political-literary tradition

Churchill's 1949 second volume — the Battle of Britain and Britain alone, May-December 1940

20% conservatism 15% civic-republicanism 15% political-realism 10% liberalism 10% classical-liberalism 15% historicism 10% anglican-broad-church +4

#1097

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (Late)

Winston Churchill · 1956-1958 (written largely 1937-39)

Narrative history / Four-volume work · British political-literary tradition / Whig-Conservative historiography

Churchill's 1956-58 four-volume narrative history of the English-speaking peoples from Caesar to 1901

25% conservatism 20% classical-liberalism 20% historicism 10% liberalism 10% civic-republicanism 10% anglican-broad-church 5% political-realism +4

#1098

The Black Unicorn (Mid)

Audre Lorde · 1978

Poetry · Black-feminist / Lesbian poetry / Yoruba-influenced mythopoeia

Lorde's 1978 poetry collection — Yoruba mythology in service of a Black-feminist mythopoeia

25% black-radical-tradition 20% feminism 15% queer-theory 15% intersectionality 10% postcolonial-theory 10% mysticism 5% animism-relational-indigenous +4

#1099

Coal (Mid)

Audre Lorde · 1976 (drawing on poems from 1968 onward)

Poetry · Black-feminist / Lesbian poetry / American free verse

Lorde's 1976 major-press debut — poetry of being "Black like the inside of the world"

25% black-radical-tradition 20% feminism 15% queer-theory 15% intersectionality 10% naturalism 10% liberalism 5% historicism +4

#1100

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Late)

Audre Lorde · 1982

"Biomythography" / Autobiographical prose-poetic narrative · Black-feminist / Lesbian autobiography

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

25% feminism 20% black-radical-tradition 20% queer-theory 15% intersectionality 10% postcolonial-theory 10% mysticism +3

#1101

A Burst of Light (Late)

Audre Lorde · 1988

Essays, speeches, journals · Black-feminist prose / Cancer-illness writing

Lorde's 1988 prose collection — "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare"

25% feminism 20% black-radical-tradition 15% intersectionality 15% queer-theory 10% postcolonial-theory 10% naturalism 5% mysticism +4

#1102

The Bluest Eye (Mid)

Toni Morrison · 1970

Novel · African-American literature / Black-feminist literature

Morrison's 1970 debut — the destruction of Pecola Breedlove by internalised white-supremacist beauty standards

25% black-radical-tradition 20% feminism 15% intersectionality 10% critical-theory 10% historicism 5% mysticism 10% naturalism +4

#1103

Sula (Mid)

Toni Morrison · 1973

Novel · African-American literature / Black-feminist literature

Morrison's 1973 novel of the friendship of Sula Peace and Nel Wright — the Bottom community of Medallion, Ohio

25% black-radical-tradition 25% feminism 15% intersectionality 10% critical-theory 10% historicism 10% mysticism 5% pragmatism +4

#1104

Song of Solomon (Mid)

Toni Morrison · 1977

Novel · African-American literature / Magical realism

Morrison's 1977 novel — Milkman Dead, the flying African ancestor Solomon, the search for the inherited name

25% black-radical-tradition 15% feminism 20% mysticism 15% historicism 10% animism-relational-indigenous 10% intersectionality 5% naturalism +4

#1105

Jazz (Late)

Toni Morrison · 1992

Novel · African-American literature / Modernist novel

Morrison's 1992 Harlem-1926 novel — jazz as form, Joe Trace and Violet, the murdered Dorcas

25% black-radical-tradition 15% feminism 10% intersectionality 10% critical-theory 15% historicism 15% modernism 10% mysticism +4

#1106

Primate Visions (Mid)

Donna Haraway · 1989

Cultural-historical study of science · Science and technology studies / Feminist science studies

Haraway's 1989 study of twentieth-century primatology as racial-gendered narrative production

25% feminism 15% critical-theory 15% postcolonial-theory 15% transhumanism-posthumanism 10% structuralism 5% naturalism 10% intersectionality +4

#1107

Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (Mid)

Donna Haraway · 1991

Essay collection · Science and technology studies / Feminist science studies / Cyborg feminism

Haraway's 1991 essay collection gathering the canonical "A Cyborg Manifesto" and "Situated Knowledges"

25% feminism 15% critical-theory 20% transhumanism-posthumanism 10% dialectical-materialism 10% postmodernism 10% intersectionality 10% cybernetics +4

#1108

Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™ (Late)

Donna Haraway · 1997

Cultural-historical study of technoscience · Science and technology studies / Feminist technoscience studies

Haraway's 1997 study of late-twentieth-century technoscience — FemaleMan and OncoMouse as figures of corporate-cultural production

25% feminism 15% critical-theory 15% transhumanism-posthumanism 10% dialectical-materialism 10% postmodernism 10% intersectionality 10% cybernetics +4

#1109

When Species Meet (Late)

Donna Haraway · 2008

Philosophical-ethological essay · Feminist science studies / Multispecies studies

Haraway's 2008 study of multi-species "becoming-with" — humans and dogs and the ethics of companionship

25% transhumanism-posthumanism 15% deep-ecology 15% feminism 10% process-philosophy 10% phenomenology 10% pragmatism 15% animal-ethics +4

#1110

Laboratory Life (Early)

Bruno Latour · 1979

Ethnographic study of science · Science and technology studies / Actor-network theory (proto-)

Latour and Woolgar's 1979 ethnography of the Salk laboratory — scientific facts as the trace-residue of social-material practice

20% critical-theory 15% pragmatism 10% postmodernism 10% naturalism 10% realism 10% cybernetics 5% structuralism +4

#1111

Science in Action (Mid)

Bruno Latour · 1987

Methodological textbook / Theoretical treatise · Science and technology studies / Actor-network theory

Latour's 1987 methodological textbook — "follow the actors" through science and technology in the making

20% critical-theory 15% pragmatism 15% postmodernism 10% realism 10% naturalism 10% cybernetics 5% analytic-metaphysics +4

#1112

An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (Late)

Bruno Latour · 2013 (French), 2013 (English)

Anthropological-philosophical treatise · Science and technology studies / Modes-of-existence pluralism

Latour's 2013 anthropological-philosophical synthesis — the multiple modes of existence of the moderns

25% pluralism 20% pragmatism 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% critical-theory 10% postmodernism 10% process-philosophy 10% realism +4

#1113

Down to Earth (Late)

Bruno Latour · 2017 (French), 2018 (English)

Political-philosophical essay · Climate-political philosophy / STS

Latour's 2017 political essay — climate, Trump, Brexit, and the geopolitics of the new terrestrial

25% deep-ecology 15% critical-theory 15% transhumanism-posthumanism 10% pragmatism 10% pluralism 10% liberalism +3

#1114

Death and the King's Horseman (Mid)

Wole Soyinka · 1975

Tragic drama · Yoruba-African drama / Anglophone African literature

Soyinka's 1975 tragedy — the Yoruba ritual suicide of Elesin Oba interrupted by colonial intervention

25% postcolonial-theory 25% animism-relational-indigenous 20% mysticism 15% tragedy 10% critical-theory 10% historicism 10% communitarianism +4

#1115

Myth, Literature and the African World (Mid)

Wole Soyinka · 1976

Critical-philosophical lectures · African literary-philosophical criticism / Yoruba metaphysics

Soyinka's 1976 Cambridge lectures — Yoruba metaphysics and the proper critical reading of African literature

25% postcolonial-theory 25% animism-relational-indigenous 15% mysticism 15% critical-theory 15% tragedy 10% communitarianism 5% historicism +4

#1116

The Iliad, or the Poem of Force (Late)

Simone Weil · 1939 (written), 1940-41 (published in Cahiers du Sud)

Philosophical-literary essay · French religious-philosophical essay / Christian platonism

Weil's 1939 essay — the Iliad as the supreme document of force's power to reduce human beings to things

20% christian-platonism 15% platonism-classical 10% catholic-thomistic 15% mysticism 15% pacifism 10% existentialism 10% tragedy +4

#1117

Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression (Early)

Simone Weil · 1934

Political-philosophical essay · French radical-socialist tradition / Anti-totalitarianism

Weil's 1934 critique of Marxist orthodoxy — oppression as structural, not solely the consequence of capitalism

20% dialectical-materialism 15% anarchism 10% liberalism 15% critical-theory 10% existentialism 10% communitarianism 15% libertarian-socialism +4

#1118

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism (Mid)

Daisetsu Teitarō Suzuki · 1934 (Japanese-published English ed.); 1949 (Rider ed. with Jung foreword)

Popular introduction · Japanese Zen Buddhism / Modern Zen apologetics

Suzuki's 1934 popular introduction — with the 1949 Carl Jung foreword that helped shape Western Buddhist reception

25% buddhism 20% mysticism 15% perennial-philosophy 15% analytical-psychology-jungian 10% pragmatism 10% idealism 5% taoism 8% mahayana-buddhism 8% zen-buddhism +6

#1119

Faṣl al-Maqāl (The Decisive Treatise) (Mature)

Ibn Rushd (Averroes) · c. 1179

Theological-philosophical treatise · Islamic falsafa / Andalusian-Maliki jurisprudence

Averroes's c.1179 short treatise — the harmony of philosophy and Islamic revealed religion

30% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 20% aristotelianism 15% scholasticism 5% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 15% rationalism 10% liberal-theology 10% rabbinic-judaism +4

#1120

Declaration of Independence (Early)

Thomas Jefferson · 1776 (June drafted, July 4 adopted)

Political declaration · Anglo-American classical liberalism / Lockean natural rights

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

30% classical-liberalism 20% liberalism 20% natural-law 10% civic-republicanism 10% deism +2

#1121

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (Early)

Thomas Jefferson · 1777 (drafted), 1786 (enacted)

Statute / Legal text · Anglo-American classical liberalism / Religious-disestablishment tradition

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

25% classical-liberalism 20% liberalism 15% deism 10% natural-law 10% evangelical-protestantism 10% anglican-broad-church +3

#1122

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

Thomas Jefferson · 1774

Political pamphlet · Anglo-American classical liberalism / Whig-revolutionary tradition

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

25% classical-liberalism 15% liberalism 15% civic-republicanism 15% natural-law 10% conservatism 10% deism +3

#1123

The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (Late)

Thomas Jefferson · c. 1820 (compiled), published 1904

Cut-and-paste Gospel harmony · Enlightenment deism / Rational religion

Jefferson's c.1820 cut-and-paste Gospel — Jesus's moral teaching stripped of miracles and divinity claims

30% deism 15% liberal-theology 10% classical-liberalism 15% rationalism 10% natural-law 5% evangelical-protestantism 5% anglican-broad-church +4

#1124

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Late)

Eleanor Roosevelt · 1947-48 (drafted), December 10, 1948 (adopted)

International declaration · International human-rights tradition / Liberal-internationalism

Eleanor Roosevelt-chaired UN drafting committee's 1948 Universal Declaration — founding document of international human-rights law

25% liberalism 15% classical-liberalism 10% natural-law 15% cosmopolitanism 10% liberal-theology 5% communitarianism +3

#1125

This Is My Story (Mid)

Eleanor Roosevelt · 1937

Autobiography · American liberal-progressive memoir tradition

Roosevelt's 1937 autobiography — childhood and marriage through 1924

20% liberalism 15% feminism 10% classical-liberalism 15% civic-republicanism 10% anglican-broad-church 5% historicism +3

#1126

You Learn by Living (Late)

Eleanor Roosevelt · 1960

Reflective essays / Practical philosophy · American liberal-progressive practical-ethical tradition

Roosevelt's 1960 practical-philosophical reflections — eleven keys to a more fulfilling life

20% liberalism 20% pragmatism 15% civic-republicanism 10% classical-liberalism 10% liberal-theology 10% feminism 5% anglican-broad-church +4

#1127

Tomorrow Is Now (Late)

Eleanor Roosevelt · 1962 (written, unfinished at her death), 1963 (published posthumously)

Political-philosophical testament · American liberal-progressive political tradition

Roosevelt's posthumous 1963 testament — the unfinished work of American liberal democracy

25% liberalism 15% cosmopolitanism 10% classical-liberalism 10% civic-republicanism 10% liberal-theology 10% feminism +3

#1128

Shabuhragan (Mature)

Mani · mid-3rd century CE (c. 240-260)

Scriptural summary / Royal dedication · Manichaeism / Late-antique Iranian religion

Mani's mid-3rd-c. Middle Persian summary of his teaching dedicated to Shapur I — only Manichaean scripture in Persian

30% manichaeism 25% dualism 15% zoroastrianism 10% mysticism 10% christianity +2

#1129

Living Gospel (Evangelium Vivum) (Mature)

Mani · mid-3rd century CE

Scriptural gospel · Manichaeism

Mani's Living Gospel — first of the seven canonical Manichaean books, the principal scripture

30% manichaeism 20% dualism 15% mysticism 15% christianity 10% perennial-philosophy +2

#1130

Treasure of Life (Mature)

Mani · mid-3rd century CE

Scriptural treatise · Manichaeism

Mani's Treasure of Life — second of the seven canonical Manichaean books

25% manichaeism 20% dualism 15% mysticism 10% christianity 15% perennial-philosophy +2

#1131

Book of Mysteries (Mature)

Mani · mid-3rd century CE

Scriptural treatise / Polemical text · Manichaeism

Mani's Book of Mysteries — third of the seven canonical books; polemical address to earlier prophets and traditions

25% manichaeism 20% dualism 15% mysticism 10% christianity 15% perennial-philosophy +2

#1132

Autobiography (Late)

Benjamin Franklin · 1771 (Part 1), 1784 (Part 2), 1788 (Part 3), 1790 (Part 4, unfinished)

Autobiography · American Enlightenment / Practical-republican tradition

Franklin's 1771-90 unfinished autobiography — founding text of the American self-made-man tradition

20% classical-liberalism 20% pragmatism 15% deism 15% civic-republicanism 10% liberalism 15% virtue-ethics 5% naturalism +4

#1133

Poor Richard's Almanack (Mid)

Benjamin Franklin · 1732-1758 (annual, twenty-six issues)

Annual almanac with proverbs and essays · American Enlightenment / Practical-republican tradition

Franklin's 1732-58 annual almanac — colonial America's most-read book of practical wisdom and proverbs

25% pragmatism 15% classical-liberalism 15% civic-republicanism 25% virtue-ethics 10% deism 10% liberalism +3

#1134

Experiments and Observations on Electricity (Mid)

Benjamin Franklin · 1747-1750 (letters), 1751 (first edition)

Scientific letters / Treatise · American Enlightenment / Experimental natural philosophy

Franklin's 1751 collected electrical letters — founding work of American natural science

30% naturalism 15% pragmatism 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% realism 10% classical-liberalism 10% civic-republicanism 15% deism +4

#1135

Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion (Early)

Benjamin Franklin · 1728

Private religious credo and devotional liturgy · American Enlightenment / Eclectic deism

Young Franklin's 1728 private religious credo — eclectic-deist articles for his own devotional practice

30% deism 15% rationalism 10% liberal-theology 15% animism-relational-indigenous 10% virtue-ethics 10% classical-liberalism 5% natural-law +4

#1136

Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī (Mature)

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī · c. 1244-1273 (post-1244 encounter with Shams; finished by Rumi's 1273 death)

Lyric poetry (ghazals, quatrains) · Sufi mysticism / Persian classical poetry / Mevlevi order

Rumi's 13th-c. lyric collection — c. 40,000 verses of mystical love-poetry in the voice of Shams of Tabriz

30% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 25% mysticism 10% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 15% perennial-philosophy 10% neo-platonism 10% spinozist-pantheism 5% islam +4

#1137

Fīhi mā Fīhi (Discourses) (Late)

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī · c. 1262-1273 (transcribed during Rumi's last decade)

Prose discourses (transcribed from oral teaching) · Sufi mysticism / Mevlevi order

Rumi's 13th-c. 71 prose discourses transcribed by disciples — practical Sufi instruction in everyday speech

30% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 20% mysticism 10% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 20% virtue-ethics 10% perennial-philosophy 5% pragmatism +3

#1138

Maktūbāt (Letters) (Mature)

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī · mid-13th century

Letters · Sufi mysticism / Mevlevi order

Rumi's 13th-c. 147 letters — pastoral and political correspondence of the Mevlevi master

25% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 15% mysticism 20% virtue-ethics 10% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 15% communitarianism 10% civic-republicanism 5% historicism +4

#1139

Majālis-i Sabʿa (Seven Sermons) (Mature)

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī · mid-13th century

Sermons (transcribed) · Sufi mysticism / Mevlevi order / Hanafi-Sunni preaching tradition

Rumi's 13th-c. seven Friday sermons — formal religious-pastoral instruction transcribed by disciples

25% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 15% mysticism 10% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 15% virtue-ethics 15% islam 5% communitarianism +3

#1140

Brahma-Sūtra-Bhāṣya (Mature)

Madhvācārya · 13th century (Madhva c. 1238-1317)

Commentarial treatise (bhāṣya) · Hindu Vedanta / Dvaita / Madhva sampradāya

Madhva's 13th-c. commentary on the Brahma Sutras — founding text of Dvaita Vedanta's pluralist metaphysical realism

30% advaita-vedanta 25% realism 20% pluralism 15% dualism 10% hinduism 10% mysticism 6% vedanta +4