Works

#1622

Let Us Dream (Late-middle)

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) · 2020

Book-length pandemic-era reflection · Roman Catholic teaching / Jesuit social thought / post-pandemic political theology

Pope Francis's 2020 'Let Us Dream' — pandemic-era reflection on a better post-pandemic future

22% catholic-thomistic 14% deep-ecology 14% humanism 12% liberation-theology 16% christianity 6% catholicism +3

#1628

Sonnets (Career-spanning)

William Shakespeare · c. 1590s–1604; printed 1609

Lyric sonnet sequence (154 sonnets) · English Renaissance / Elizabethan-Jacobean poetry

Shakespeare's 1609 'Sonnets' — 154 lyric meditations on love, time, beauty, and the Fair Youth / Dark Lady

22% aestheticism 18% platonism-classical 18% humanism 14% tragedy 12% romanticism 16% philosophy-of-language +3

#1629

West-östlicher Divan (Late)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1814-1819

Poetry collection (12 books) · German Romanticism / Weltliteratur / orientalist-philosophical poetry

Goethe's 1819 'West-östlicher Divan' — German-Romantic poetic engagement with the Persian Hafez and Sufi tradition

22% romanticism 22% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 18% perennial-philosophy 14% humanism 10% aestheticism +2

#1630

Conversations with Eckermann (Late)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1823-1832 conversations; 1836-1848 publication by Eckermann

Conversational record (compiled by Eckermann) · German Romanticism / philosophical conversation

Eckermann's record of his 1823-32 conversations with the late Goethe — the principal source for Goethe's late thought

18% romanticism 18% humanism 14% philosophy-of-religion 16% aestheticism 14% spinozist-pantheism 18% naturalism +3

#1631

Between Man and Man (Middle-to-late)

Martin Buber · 1929-1938 essays; 1947 publication

Philosophical essay collection · Jewish dialogical philosophy / philosophical anthropology / philosophy of education

Buber's 1947 'Between Man and Man' — major essays on dialogue, education, and 'what is man?'

22% phenomenology 14% rabbinic-judaism 16% philosophy-of-mind 14% existentialism 18% humanism 16% hermeneutics +3

#1632

Two Types of Faith (Late)

Martin Buber · 1951

Comparative theological monograph · Jewish dialogical philosophy / Jewish-Christian comparative religion / philosophy of religion

Buber's 1951 'Two Types of Faith' — Jewish emunah ('trust') versus Greek-Christian pistis ('belief that') as the two modes of religious faith

25% rabbinic-judaism 20% philosophy-of-religion 14% phenomenology 14% hermeneutics 14% christianity 13% perennial-philosophy +3

#1633

Bhagavad Gītā Bhāṣya (Career-defining)

Adi Śaṅkara · c. late 8th century

Sanskrit philosophical commentary (bhāṣya) · Advaita Vedanta / classical Hindu commentary

Śaṅkara's 8th-century 'Bhagavad Gītā Bhāṣya' — the founding Advaita-Vedantic reading of the Gita

35% advaita-vedanta 22% hinduism 14% scholasticism 14% mysticism 8% neo-platonism 7% rationalism 6% vedanta +4

#1634

Upadeśasāhasrī (Mature)

Adi Śaṅkara · c. late 8th century

Sanskrit independent philosophical treatise (prakaraṇa) · Advaita Vedanta / classical Hindu philosophical didactic

Śaṅkara's 'Upadeśasāhasrī' (A Thousand Teachings) — independent didactic exposition of Advaita Vedanta

35% advaita-vedanta 20% hinduism 14% scholasticism 16% mysticism 8% philosophy-of-mind 7% rationalism 6% vedanta +4

#1635

The Development of Metaphysics in Persia (Early)

Muhammad Iqbal · 1907-08 (Cambridge dissertation; published 1908)

Doctoral dissertation / philosophical-historical monograph · Iqbalian Islamic philosophy / Persian intellectual history / Sufism

Iqbal's 1908 Cambridge dissertation — survey of Persian Islamic philosophy from Zoroaster to the Bahai movement

28% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 22% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 14% philosophy-of-religion 14% historicism 12% islam 10% mysticism +3

#1636

Bāng-i-Darā (Early-to-middle)

Muhammad Iqbal · 1924 (poems 1900s-1920s)

Poetry collection · Modern Urdu poetry / Iqbalian Islamic political-philosophical poetry / South Asian Muslim renaissance

Iqbal's 1924 'Bāng-i-Darā' (Call of the Caravan Bell) — first major Urdu poetry collection, the rise of his political-philosophical voice

22% islam 16% romanticism 14% humanism 14% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 14% philosophy-of-religion 14% modernism +3

#1637

The Human Cycle (Middle)

Sri Aurobindo · 1916-18 (Arya serial); 1949 book

Philosophical-historical treatise · Integral Yoga / Indian philosophical history / philosophy of social development

Aurobindo's 1949 'Human Cycle' — psychological stages of human collective development (Symbolic, Typal, Conventional, Individualist, Subjective)

22% hinduism 18% process-philosophy 16% perennial-philosophy 14% advaita-vedanta 16% historicism +2

#1638

The Secret of the Veda (Early-to-middle)

Sri Aurobindo · 1914-16 (Arya serial); 1956 book

Sanskrit hermeneutical treatise · Integral Yoga / Vedic hermeneutics / Indian philosophical retranslation

Aurobindo's 1956 'Secret of the Veda' — symbolic-philosophical reinterpretation of the Rig Veda against the Sayana / Max Müller readings

25% hinduism 18% perennial-philosophy 16% hermeneutics 16% mysticism 12% advaita-vedanta 13% philosophy-of-religion +3

#1639

Redemptor Hominis (Early (papacy))

Karol Józef Wojtyła / Pope John Paul II · 1979 (4 March)

Papal encyclical · Roman Catholic teaching / personalist-Thomist Catholic theology

John Paul II's 1979 first encyclical 'Redemptor Hominis' — Christ the Redeemer as the centre of Christian anthropology

26% catholic-thomistic 22% christian-personalism 20% christianity 12% humanism 10% natural-law 10% philosophy-of-religion 6% catholicism +4

#1640

Memory and Identity (Final)

Karol Józef Wojtyła / Pope John Paul II · 2005 (book-length reflections)

Book-length theological-philosophical reflections · Roman Catholic teaching / personalist-Thomist Catholic philosophy

John Paul II's 2005 'Memoria e identità' — late reflections on totalitarianism, freedom, Christian Europe

22% catholic-thomistic 18% christian-personalism 16% historicism 4% anglican-broad-church 14% natural-law 16% christianity 6% catholicism +4

#1641

Journal of Discourses (Career-spanning)

Brigham Young · Sermons 1854-1886; published serially Liverpool / SLC 1854-1886

Sermon-and-discourse collection (26 volumes) · LDS / early-Mormon teaching / Utah-era American religion

'Journal of Discourses' — 26-volume collection of Brigham Young and other early-LDS sermons (1854-1886)

35% lds-latter-day-saint 12% evangelical-protestantism 12% christianity 10% perennial-philosophy 8% mysticism +2

#1642

The Church and the Second Sex (Early)

Mary Daly · 1968 (rev. 1975)

Theological-feminist monograph · Catholic feminism / second-wave radical feminism / post-Vatican-II theology

Daly's 1968 'Church and the Second Sex' — Catholic-feminist critique of patriarchy in the Roman Church (later renounced)

28% feminism 12% catholic-thomistic 18% philosophy-of-religion 14% critical-theory 11% intersectionality 17% humanism +3

#1643

Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language (Late-middle)

Mary Daly · 1987 (with Jane Caputi)

Radical-feminist dictionary / neologistic philosophical work · Mary-Daly radical feminism / linguistic-politics / post-Christian feminism

Daly and Caputi's 1987 'Wickedary' — radical-feminist dictionary, playful neologistic linguistic-politics

30% feminism 20% philosophy-of-language 14% deconstruction 14% critical-theory 8% queer-theory 14% intersectionality +3

#1644

Outercourse (Late)

Mary Daly · 1992

Autobiography (radical-feminist style) · Mary-Daly radical feminism / radical-feminist autobiography

Daly's 1992 'Outercourse' — autobiography of 'The Be-Dazzling Voyage'

30% feminism 14% philosophy-of-religion 16% critical-theory 14% humanism 14% deconstruction 12% queer-theory +3

#1645

On Dialogue (Late (posthumous))

David Bohm · Lectures 1980s-90s; book 1996 (posthumous, ed. Lee Nichol)

Posthumous lecture-essay collection · Bohmian process-physics / philosophy of dialogue / contemplative inquiry

Bohm's late lectures on dialogue as a mode of collective thought and inquiry

22% philosophy-of-mind 16% phenomenology 18% process-philosophy 12% mysticism 14% systems-theory 13% hermeneutics +3

#1646

Contact (Late)

Carl Sagan · 1985

Science-fiction novel · Saganian science popularisation / philosophical science fiction / SETI-naturalist humanism

Sagan's 1985 'Contact' — first scientifically rigorous SETI-contact novel; the science-religion dialogue dramatised

22% naturalism 18% philosophy-of-religion 16% atheism-secularism 14% philosophy-of-science 12% humanism 18% realism +3

#1647

Shibun Yōryō (Early)

Motoori Norinaga · 1763

Literary-aesthetic treatise · Kokugaku (Japanese National Learning) / shintō-aesthetic philosophy

Norinaga's 1763 'Shibun Yōryō' — Kokugaku-aesthetic reading of the Genji as the text of mono no aware

20% shintoism 26% aestheticism 14% romanticism 14% hermeneutics 14% phenomenology +2

#1648

Naobi no Mitama (Middle)

Motoori Norinaga · 1771

Religious-philosophical-political treatise · Kokugaku (Japanese National Learning) / shintō-restorationist philosophy

Norinaga's 1771 'Naobi no Mitama' — programmatic statement of the Way of the Kami against the Confucian and Buddhist 'ways'

30% shintoism 10% perennial-philosophy 18% conservatism 8% humanism 16% philosophy-of-religion 18% historicism +3

#1649

Kojiki-den (Late (career-spanning))

Motoori Norinaga · 1764-1798 composition; completed 1798 (44 volumes)

Massive philological-religious commentary (44 volumes) · Kokugaku (Japanese National Learning) / shintō hermeneutics / Japanese philology

Norinaga's 1798 'Kojiki-den' — 44-volume magnum opus commentary on the Kojiki, completed after 34 years' work

30% shintoism 22% hermeneutics 16% historicism 14% philosophy-of-religion 10% conservatism 8% scholasticism +3

#1650

Etz Chayim (Posthumous (transmission))

Isaac ben Solomon Luria (the Ari) · Luria's teachings 1570-72; redacted by Hayyim Vital c. 1572-1620; printed 1782

Systematic Kabbalistic treatise (8 'gates') · Lurianic Kabbalah / sixteenth-century Safed mystical school

Vital's 'Etz Chayim' — the central systematic record of Lurianic Kabbalah: tzimtzum, shevirat ha-kelim, tikkun olam

35% kabbalah-lurianic 18% rabbinic-judaism 20% mysticism 12% neo-platonism 8% philosophy-of-religion 6% esotericism +3

#1651

Sha'ar ha-Gilgulim (Posthumous (transmission))

Isaac ben Solomon Luria (the Ari) · Luria's teachings 1570-72; redacted by Vital; printed 1875

Kabbalistic treatise (one of Vital's 'Eight Gates') · Lurianic Kabbalah / Jewish mystical reincarnation doctrine

Vital's 'Sha'ar ha-Gilgulim' — Lurianic doctrine of soul-transmigration (gilgul neshamot)

32% kabbalah-lurianic 18% rabbinic-judaism 20% mysticism 10% neo-platonism 6% philosophy-of-mind 6% esotericism +3

#1652

Brahma-siddhi (Mature)

Maṇḍana Miśra · c. 8th century

Sanskrit philosophical treatise (siddhi) · Early Advaita Vedanta / post-Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā Vedanta

Maṇḍana's c. 8th-century 'Brahma-siddhi' — early Advaita-Vedantic systematic treatise alongside (and partly against) Śaṅkara

28% advaita-vedanta 18% hinduism 16% scholasticism 14% rationalism 12% mysticism 12% philosophy-of-language +3

#1653

Vidhi-viveka (Mature)

Maṇḍana Miśra · c. 8th century

Sanskrit Mīmāṃsā treatise · Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā (Kumārila school) / Sanskrit philosophy of language and action

Maṇḍana's 'Vidhi-viveka' — defining Mīmāṃsā analysis of Vedic injunction (vidhi)

22% hinduism 26% philosophy-of-language 16% scholasticism 12% rationalism 12% natural-law 12% philosophy-of-mind +3

#1654

Bhāvanā-viveka (Mature)

Maṇḍana Miśra · c. 8th century

Sanskrit Mīmāṃsā treatise · Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā / Sanskrit philosophy of language

Maṇḍana's 'Bhāvanā-viveka' — Mīmāṃsā theory of bhāvanā (the action-producing meaning of the verb)

22% hinduism 28% philosophy-of-language 14% scholasticism 12% rationalism 14% philosophy-of-mind 10% natural-law +3

#1655

Viṃśatikā (Mature (post-conversion to Mahāyāna))

Vasubandhu · c. 4th-5th century

Sanskrit verse treatise with auto-commentary (vṛtti) · Yogācāra Buddhism / Mahāyāna philosophical idealism

Vasubandhu's 4th-5th century 'Twenty Verses on Vijñaptimātra' — defending Yogācāra mind-only against realist objections

32% yogacara 22% buddhism 18% idealism 14% philosophy-of-mind 8% scholasticism 6% phenomenology 8% mahayana-buddhism +4

#1656

Triṃśikā (Mature)

Vasubandhu · c. 4th-5th century

Sanskrit verse treatise · Yogācāra Buddhism / Mahāyāna philosophical idealism

Vasubandhu's 'Thirty Verses on Vijñaptimātra' — systematic Yogācāra exposition of consciousness, the three natures, and the eight consciousnesses

35% yogacara 22% buddhism 18% idealism 16% philosophy-of-mind 7% scholasticism 4% structuralism 8% mahayana-buddhism +4

#1657

Essence of Eloquence on the Interpretable and Definitive Meanings (Late-mature)

Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa · 1407-1408

Tibetan philosophical treatise · Gelug Tibetan Buddhism / Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka philosophy

Tsongkhapa's 1407-08 'Essence of Eloquence' — definitive Gelug treatise distinguishing definitive from interpretable Buddhist teachings

28% tibetan-vajrayana-buddhism 22% buddhism 12% yogacara 16% scholasticism 16% hermeneutics 6% rationalism 8% mahayana-buddhism 8% madhyamaka +5

#1658

In Praise of Dependent Origination (Early-mature)

Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa · c. 1397-1400 (early-mature)

Tibetan verse hymn (stotra) · Gelug Tibetan Buddhism / Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka

Tsongkhapa's 'In Praise of Dependent Origination' — the philosophical-devotional summary of his Madhyamaka realisation

28% tibetan-vajrayana-buddhism 24% buddhism 14% mysticism 8% scholasticism 10% rationalism 16% philosophy-of-religion 8% mahayana-buddhism 8% madhyamaka +5

#1659

Kitāb al-Mashāʿir (Mature)

Mulla Sadra (Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi) · c. 17th century (mid-career)

Arabic philosophical treatise · Transcendent Theosophy (al-Ḥikma al-Mutaʿāliya) / Twelver Shiʿi Islamic philosophy

Mulla Sadra's 'Kitāb al-Mashāʿir' — concise statement of his metaphysics of wujūd (existence)

28% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 14% islam 18% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 12% neo-platonism 14% scholasticism 14% process-philosophy +3

#1660

Al-Shawāhid al-Rubūbiyya (Mid-to-late)

Mulla Sadra (Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi) · c. 17th century (mid-to-late career)

Arabic philosophical-theological treatise · Transcendent Theosophy (al-Ḥikma al-Mutaʿāliya) / Twelver Shiʿi Islamic philosophy

Mulla Sadra's 'Al-Shawāhid al-Rubūbiyya' — major philosophical-theological treatise on the divine witnesses

28% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 18% islam 16% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 14% scholasticism 10% neo-platonism 14% natural-theology +3

#1661

Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb (Late)

Mulla Sadra (Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi) · c. 17th century (late career)

Arabic mystical-philosophical-Qur'anic treatise · Transcendent Theosophy / Twelver Shiʿi Islamic philosophy / Islamic mystical hermeneutics

Mulla Sadra's 'Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb' — late mystical-philosophical work on the keys to interpreting the Qur'an

24% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 18% islam 20% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 14% hermeneutics 16% mysticism 8% philosophy-of-religion +3

#1662

Act and Being (Early)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1929-30 (habilitation); published 1931

Habilitation thesis / philosophical-theological monograph · Reformed dialectical theology / Lutheran phenomenology / philosophical theology

Bonhoeffer's 1930 habilitation — transcendental philosophy and ontology in the theology of revelation

22% reformed-calvinist-theology 20% phenomenology 16% christianity 14% lutheranism 12% existentialism 16% philosophy-of-religion 8% neo-orthodoxy +4

#1663

Mind-Energy (Middle)

Henri Bergson · 1900s-1913 essays; collected 1919

Essay collection (7 essays) · Bergsonian process-philosophy / French spiritualist tradition / philosophical psychology

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

22% process-philosophy 22% philosophy-of-mind 16% phenomenology 14% psychoanalysis 12% humanism +2

#1664

What Is Art? (Late)

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy · 1897-98

Aesthetic treatise · Late-Tolstoyan Christian anarchism / Christian-pacifist aesthetics / Russian religious philosophy

Tolstoy's 1897 'What Is Art?' — late aesthetic-religious treatise: art is the communication of feeling in the service of religious-moral brotherhood

26% aestheticism 18% christianity 12% anarchism 16% humanism 8% perennial-philosophy 20% critical-theory +3

#1665

The Moment (Final (year of death))

Søren Kierkegaard · 1854-55 (nine pamphlets)

Polemical pamphlets (nine issues, plus This Must Be Said) · Christian existentialism / Kierkegaardian polemical theology

Kierkegaard's 1854-55 'Øieblikket' — final polemical attack on Christendom and the established Danish Church

28% christian-existentialism 22% christianity 14% lutheranism 10% anarchism 14% atheism-secularism 12% critical-theory +3

#1666

Factory Journal (Middle)

Simone Weil · 1934-1935; published posthumously 1951

Diary (posthumous) · Christian-mystical labour philosophy / French left-Catholic / philosophy of work

Weil's 1934-35 'Journal d'usine' — diary of her voluntary year of factory labour

22% humanism 16% mysticism 14% christianity 14% dialectical-materialism 18% critical-theory 16% phenomenology +3

#1667

Letter to a Priest (Final)

Simone Weil · November 1942; published posthumously 1951

Long letter (posthumous) · Christian-mystical / heterodox-Catholic / late-Weilian theology

Weil's 1942 'Letter to a Priest' — final theological statement before her 1943 death; her detailed reservations about Catholic dogma

22% mysticism 22% perennial-philosophy 18% christianity 18% philosophy-of-religion 10% platonism-classical 10% protestant-reformation +3

#1668

She Came to Stay (Early)

Simone de Beauvoir · 1937-41 composition; 1943 publication

Novel · French existentialism / philosophical fiction / phenomenology

Beauvoir's 1943 first novel 'L'Invitée' — phenomenological-existentialist treatment of the ménage à trois

28% existentialism 18% phenomenology 16% feminism 18% modernism 12% humanism 8% philosophy-of-mind 8% continental-philosophy +4

#1669

Pyrrhus and Cineas (Early)

Simone de Beauvoir · 1944

Philosophical essay · French existentialism / philosophical ethics / phenomenology

Beauvoir's 1944 'Pyrrhus et Cinéas' — first major philosophical essay on the ethics of existential freedom and project

30% existentialism 16% phenomenology 22% virtue-ethics 16% humanism 10% feminism 6% philosophy-of-mind 8% continental-philosophy +4

#1670

You Are Not a Gadget (Early (public-philosophical career))

Jaron Lanier · 2010

Manifesto / public-philosophical monograph · Critical technology / philosophy of digital life / dissident Silicon Valley philosophy

Lanier's 2010 'You Are Not a Gadget' — first manifesto against Web 2.0's reduction of personhood to algorithmic profile

22% critical-theory 22% humanism 14% philosophy-of-mind 14% dataism-information-ontology 8% transhumanism-posthumanism 12% aestheticism +3

#1671

Who Owns the Future? (Middle (public-philosophical career))

Jaron Lanier · 2013

Public-philosophical monograph (economic-political) · Critical technology / political economy of data / dissident Silicon Valley

Lanier's 2013 'Who Owns the Future?' — economic-political critique of the data economy and proposal for universal micropayments

22% critical-theory 16% liberalism 18% humanism 16% dataism-information-ontology 10% communitarianism 18% postcolonial-theory +3

#1672

Dawn of the New Everything (Middle-to-late)

Jaron Lanier · 2017

Memoir / philosophical-technical autobiography · Critical technology / philosophy of virtual reality / Silicon Valley intellectual history

Lanier's 2017 'Dawn of the New Everything' — memoir-philosophical history of virtual reality, by its principal inventor

22% philosophy-of-mind 20% humanism 18% virtual-realism 12% critical-theory 14% phenomenology 14% transhumanism-posthumanism +3

#1673

Deep Utopia (Late)

Nick Bostrom · 2024

Speculative philosophical treatise · Effective altruism / longtermism / philosophical futurism

Bostrom's 2024 'Deep Utopia' — speculative-philosophical treatment of life and meaning in a 'solved' world

18% consequentialism 18% transhumanism-posthumanism 14% humanism 16% virtue-ethics 18% utopianism 12% philosophy-of-religion 8% analytic-philosophy 6% effective-altruism +5

#1674

Three Conversations (Final (year of death))

Vladimir Solovyov · 1900

Three philosophical dialogues + appended Tale of the Antichrist · Russian religious philosophy / Orthodox apocalyptic / late-Solovyov

Solovyov's 1900 final 'Tri razgovora' — three dialogues on war, progress, and the end of history, with the 'Tale of the Antichrist'

22% eastern-orthodox-christianity 22% historicism 16% christianity 18% political-realism 8% perennial-philosophy 14% philosophy-of-religion +3

#1675

The Arcades Project (Career-spanning (unfinished))

Walter Benjamin · 1927-1940 (unfinished at Benjamin's 1940 death; published posthumously 1982)

Unfinished montage-historical project · Critical theory / Frankfurt School (peripheral) / Marxist cultural-historical analysis

Benjamin's unfinished 1927-1940 'Das Passagen-Werk' — montage-historical materialist study of nineteenth-century Paris

26% critical-theory 18% dialectical-materialism 12% rabbinic-judaism 16% modernism 20% historicism 8% hermeneutics +3

#1676

Berlin Childhood Around 1900 (Middle (composed during exile))

Walter Benjamin · 1932-1938 composition; posthumously published 1950

Autobiographical-philosophical childhood vignettes · Critical theory / Jewish-Marxist autobiographical reflection / philosophical childhood memoir

Benjamin's 1932-38 'Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert' — autobiographical-philosophical childhood memoir composed in exile

22% critical-theory 18% humanism 16% modernism 18% phenomenology 8% rabbinic-judaism 18% historicism +3

#1677

Journal (Career-spanning)

Henry David Thoreau · 1837-1861

Daily journal (14 manuscript volumes) · American Transcendentalism / nature-writing / philosophical journal

Thoreau's 1837-1861 'Journal' — 14 manuscript volumes, his career-spanning magnum opus and the matrix from which Walden was distilled

28% transcendentalism 22% naturalism 16% humanism 10% anarchism 14% deep-ecology 10% phenomenology +3

#1678

The Sacred Pipe (Late)

Heȟáka Sápa (Black Elk) · 1947-48 interviews; 1953 publication

Ethnographic-religious record of seven rites · Lakota traditional religion / Oglala Sioux ceremonial tradition / North American indigenous religion

Black Elk's 1953 'Sacred Pipe' — account of the seven rites of the Oglala Sioux, recorded by Joseph Epes Brown

28% animism-relational-indigenous 16% mysticism 12% perennial-philosophy 14% humanism 16% philosophy-of-religion 14% ubuntu-african-communal-ontology +3

#1679

The Sixth Grandfather (Posthumous (testamentary materials))

Heȟáka Sápa (Black Elk) · 1931 interviews; 1984 edited publication

Edited interview transcripts (posthumous, scholarly edition) · Lakota traditional religion / North American indigenous religious testimony

DeMallie's 1984 'Sixth Grandfather' — Neihardt's original 1931 stenographic transcripts of his interviews with Black Elk

26% animism-relational-indigenous 14% mysticism 14% philosophy-of-religion 8% perennial-philosophy 12% humanism 16% historicism +3

#1680

Loaves and Fishes (Middle-to-late)

Dorothy Day · 1963

Movement history / memoir · Catholic Worker / Christian anarchism / Catholic social teaching / Christian pacifism

Dorothy Day's 1963 'Loaves and Fishes' — history of the Catholic Worker movement on its 30th anniversary

22% catholic-thomistic 16% anarchism 16% pacifism 14% liberation-theology 16% christianity 16% communitarianism +3

#1681

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

James Cone · 1991

Comparative theological-political monograph · Black liberation theology / African-American intellectual history / Christian-Islamic comparative ethics

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

26% liberation-theology 22% black-radical-tradition 16% christianity 14% islam 12% humanism 10% critical-theory +3

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Letters (Career-spanning)

Hildegard of Bingen · c. 1146-1179

Letter collection (c. 390 surviving items) · Twelfth-century Benedictine monasticism / Rhenish mysticism / medieval Christian prophecy

Hildegard's 12th-century 'Epistolae' — c. 390 surviving letters to popes, emperors, abbots, nuns, and laity

22% christianity 14% catholic-thomistic 22% mysticism 10% feminism 12% philosophy-of-religion 8% natural-theology +3

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On the Soul (Mid-to-late (Montanist period))

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus · c. 208-212

Theological-psychological treatise (58 chapters) · North African Latin patristics / proto-orthodox-Christian psychology

Tertullian's c. 208-12 'De Anima' — first Latin Christian treatise on the soul, against the Gnostic Hermogenes

24% christianity 18% philosophy-of-mind 16% materialism 10% natural-theology 14% scholasticism +2

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Decision Points (Late (post-presidency))

George W. Bush · 2010

Presidential memoir · American presidential memoir / post-9/11 political reflection

G. W. Bush's 2010 'Decision Points' — presidential memoir structured around 14 major decisions

14% evangelical-protestantism 22% conservatism 10% liberalism 18% political-realism 14% christianity 6% postcolonial-theory +3

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Sermons (Career-spanning (Geneva preaching))

John Calvin (Jean Cauvin) · c. 1540-1564 (Geneva)

Sermons (recorded by stenographers) · Reformed-Calvinist theology / sixteenth-century Genevan Protestantism / Christian biblical preaching

Calvin's vast Geneva preaching corpus c. 1540-64 — over 2,000 sermons recorded by stenographers

30% reformed-calvinist-theology 18% protestant-reformation 18% christianity 10% evangelical-protestantism 8% scholasticism 12% natural-theology +3

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Fragments and Testimonia

Thales of Miletus · c. 6th century BCE (original); testimonia preserved in sources from the 4th c. BCE onward

Doxographic fragments and reports · Pre-Socratic natural philosophy / Milesian school

The earliest surviving reports of Western philosophy: water as arche, the earth on water, and "all things are full of gods"

35% naturalism 25% classical-greek 20% materialism 10% realism 10% panpsychism 5% milesian-school +3