Work Classification Layer
Works
Foundational texts located on the same six-dimensional grid as the schools and personas — but cited at chapter-and-verse precision. The works layer captures what personas cannot: author-stage shifts (early Wittgenstein vs late), anonymous and composite corpora (the Upanishads, the Tao Te Ching), and passage-level evidence for ontological readings.
1888 of 1888 classified · 2277 total cited
Philosophical Troubles (Late)
Kripke's 2011 'Philosophical Troubles' — Vol. 1 of Collected Papers, including 'A Puzzle about Belief' and 'Outline of a Theory of Truth'
The Consistency of the Axiom of Choice and the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis (Middle)
Gödel's 1940 monograph — relative consistency of the Axiom of Choice and the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis with ZF set theory
What is Cantor's Continuum Problem? (Middle-to-late)
Gödel's 1947/1964 'What Is Cantor's Continuum Problem?' — the Platonist statement of his philosophy of mathematics
Gödel's Ontological Argument (Late (private manuscript))
Gödel's late manuscript ontological argument — modal-logical reconstruction of the Leibnizian argument
An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Mid-career)
Anscombe's 1959 'Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus' — the standard postwar English commentary
Collected Philosophical Papers (Late)
Anscombe's 1981 three-volume Collected Philosophical Papers — From Parmenides to Wittgenstein; Metaphysics; Ethics, Religion and Politics
Philosophy of New Music (Middle)
Adorno's 1949 'Philosophy of New Music' — Schoenberg vs Stravinsky as the two poles of twentieth-century musical modernity
Aesthetic Theory (Final)
Adorno's posthumous 1970 'Aesthetic Theory' — the systematic Frankfurt-school philosophy of art, left unfinished at his 1969 death
The Religion of Man (Late)
Tagore's 1931 Hibbert Lectures — the religion of man as humanist-mystical encounter with the supreme person
Gora (Middle)
Tagore's 1910 novel 'Gora' — Hindu orthodoxy, Brahmo reform, and the discovery of universal humanity
Chitra (Early-to-middle)
Tagore's 1892 verse-play 'Chitra' — the Mahabharata princess Chitrangada's transformation into beauty, and back
The Adolescent (Late)
Dostoevsky's 1875 novel 'The Adolescent' — fatherhood, money, and the search for an 'idea'
A Writer's Diary (Late)
Dostoevsky's 1873-1881 'A Writer's Diary' — journalism, polemic, and short fiction across nearly a decade
Letter to Pythocles (Mature)
Epicurus's 'Letter to Pythocles' — Epicurean meteorology and the multiple-explanations principle
Vatican Sayings (Mature)
The 'Vatican Sayings' — eighty-one Epicurean maxims discovered 1888 in a Vatican manuscript
Dogmatics in Outline (Late-middle)
Barth's 1946 Bonn lectures — Apostles' Creed walked through as the structure of Christian dogma
Evangelical Theology (Late)
Barth's 1962 American lectures — late-career introduction to evangelical theology delivered at Princeton and Chicago
The Barmen Declaration (Middle)
Barth's 1934 Barmen Declaration — the founding charter of the Confessing Church against Nazi Reichskirche
The Therapy of Desire (Middle)
Nussbaum's 1994 'Therapy of Desire' — Hellenistic ethics as philosophical-medical therapy of the passions
Women and Human Development (Middle-to-late)
Nussbaum's 2000 'Women and Human Development' — the capabilities approach as feminist development ethic
Not for Profit (Late)
Nussbaum's 2010 'Not for Profit' — democracy requires the humanities, not just STEM-instrumental education
Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic (Early)
McTaggart's 1896 'Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic' — a critical-sympathetic study of Hegel's dialectical method
Some Dogmas of Religion (Middle)
McTaggart's 1906 'Some Dogmas of Religion' — atheistic-idealist critique of standard theistic dogma
The Nature of Existence (Late)
McTaggart's 1921-27 magnum opus — systematic idealist metaphysics including the Unreality of Time argument
A Dying Colonialism (Middle (during Algerian war))
Fanon's 1959 'A Dying Colonialism' — the Algerian revolution as social-cultural transformation
On the Virgin Conception and Original Sin (Late)
Anselm's 'De Conceptu Virginali' — original sin as inherited privation of original justice, transmitted through generation
Reflections on the Guillotine (Late)
Camus's 1957 'Réflexions sur la guillotine' — the most-cited literary argument against capital punishment
The First Man (Final (unfinished))
Camus's posthumous 1994 'The First Man' — unfinished autobiographical novel found in the wreckage of his fatal 1960 car crash
Lectures on Jurisprudence (Middle)
Smith's 1762-64 Glasgow lectures on jurisprudence — the missing systematic-philosophical link between Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations
Essays on Philosophical Subjects (Posthumous)
Smith's 1795 posthumous essays — including the early History of Astronomy, a major philosophy-of-science work
The Aims of the Philosophers (Middle)
Al-Ghazālī's 'Aims of the Philosophers' — exposition of Aristotelian-Avicennan thought as prelude to the Tahāfut
The Niche of Lights (Late)
Al-Ghazālī's late 'Niche of Lights' — Sufi-Neoplatonic exposition of the Qur'ānic Light Verse
The Analyst (Late)
Berkeley's 1734 'The Analyst' — 'ghosts of departed quantities' — the philosophical critique of Newton's infinitesimal calculus
The First Cities (Early)
Lorde's 1968 debut poetry collection — 'The First Cities'
Prophesy Deliverance! (Early)
West's 1982 'Prophesy Deliverance!' — Afro-American revolutionary Christianity as synthesis of prophetic Christianity and progressive Marxism
Black Prophetic Fire (Late)
West's 2014 'Black Prophetic Fire' — dialogues with Christa Buschendorf on six Black prophetic figures
Essays, Moral and Political (Middle)
Hume's 1741-42 'Essays, Moral and Political' — his first major essay-form intervention in public-philosophical writing
The History of England (Late)
Hume's 1754-61 'History of England' — the bestselling history of the eighteenth century
Popular Scientific Lectures (Middle)
Mach's 1895 'Popular Scientific Lectures' — accessible philosophy-of-science statement of empirio-critical doctrine
Knowledge and Error (Late)
Mach's 1905 'Erkenntnis und Irrtum' — systematic empirio-critical philosophy of science
Guerrilla Metaphysics (Early)
Harman's 2005 'Guerrilla Metaphysics' — extending Heideggerian tool-analysis from human-world relations to objects in general
Object-Oriented Ontology (Late-middle)
Harman's 2018 Pelican 'Object-Oriented Ontology' — accessible introduction to OOO for general readers
Another Country (Middle)
Baldwin's 1962 'Another Country' — race, sex, and the Greenwich Village–Harlem axis
No Name in the Street (Late)
Baldwin's 1972 'No Name in the Street' — late-Baldwin reflection on the close of the civil-rights era
If Beale Street Could Talk (Late)
Baldwin's 1974 'If Beale Street Could Talk' — Tish's voice telling Fonny's wrongful imprisonment
The Roads to Freedom (Middle)
Sartre's 1945-49 trilogy 'Les Chemins de la liberté' — Mathieu Delarue from the late 1930s to the 1940 fall of France
The Words (Late)
Sartre's 1964 'Les Mots' — autobiographical reckoning with bookishness and bourgeois childhood
Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness (Middle)
Nishida's 1917 second major work — Japanese Buddhist phenomenology in dialogue with Fichte and Husserl
From the Acting to the Seeing (Middle-to-late)
Nishida's 1927 'From the Acting to the Seeing' — turn to the logic of place (basho)
The Self-Identity of Absolute Contradiction (Late)
Nishida's 1939 essay — the late logic of self-identity through absolute contradiction
The Origin of Russian Communism (Late)
Berdyaev's 1937 'Origin of Russian Communism' — Russian communism as continuation of Russian religious-messianic tradition
The Beginning and the End (Late)
Berdyaev's 1947 'Beginning and the End' — eschatological metaphysics of creative freedom
Self-Knowledge (Posthumous)
Berdyaev's 1949 posthumous 'Self-Knowledge' — philosophical autobiography of one of the major twentieth-century Russian religious thinkers
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (Early-to-middle)
Heidegger's 1929 'Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics' — radical-phenomenological reading of the First Critique as fundamental ontology
Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) (Middle (Kehre))
Heidegger's 1936-38 'Beiträge zur Philosophie' — the second magnum opus, the philosophy of the event after the Kehre
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology (Late)
Carnap's 1950 'Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology' — internal vs external ontological questions
The Philosophical Foundations of Physics (Late)
Carnap's 1966 'Philosophical Foundations of Physics' — accessible late synthesis of his philosophy of physics
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (Middle)
Niebuhr's 1944 'Children of Light and Children of Darkness' — vindication and critique of democracy in Christian-realist terms
The Serenity Prayer (Middle)
Niebuhr's c. 1943 Serenity Prayer — 'God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change'
Gaudete et Exsultate (Late-middle (papacy))
Pope Francis's 2018 'Gaudete et Exsultate' — apostolic exhortation on holiness in the modern world