Works

#301

Four Quartets (Late (Eliot's mature Anglo-Catholic period))

Thomas Stearns Eliot · 1936 (Burnt Norton); 1940 (East Coker); 1941 (The Dry Salvages); 1942 (Little Gidding); 1943 (collected publication)

Four interconnected meditative poems · English-language modernism / Anglo-Catholic mystical poetry

Time and the timeless — Eliot's 1936-43 four-part meditative poem, the major work of his mature Anglo-Catholic period

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#302

Tradition and the Individual Talent (Early (Eliot's major early critical statement))

Thomas Stearns Eliot · 1919 (first published in The Egoist, September-December 1919)

Critical-philosophical essay · English-language modernism / literary criticism

Tradition obtained by great labour, the impersonality of poetry — Eliot's 1919 essay, the canonical modernist statement of tradition's relation to the individual artist

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#303

Vita Nuova (Early (Dante's first major work))

Dante Alighieri · c. 1295

Prosimetric autobiographical narrative — 31 poems with prose commentaries in 42 chapters · Medieval Italian poetry / dolce stil novo

The early life of love for Beatrice — Dante's c. 1295 prosimetric autobiographical work, the prelude to the Divine Comedy

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#304

Convivio (Mid (early years of exile, preceding the Comedy))

Dante Alighieri · 1304-07 (composed during the early years of Dante's exile from Florence; unfinished — four of fifteen planned books completed)

Philosophical-poetic treatise (15 planned books; 4 completed) · Medieval Italian vernacular philosophy

A "banquet" of philosophical knowledge in vernacular Italian — Dante's 1304-07 unfinished prosimetric work, the major early vernacular philosophical text

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#305

Tahāfut al-Tahāfut (Mid-late (Averroes's major systematic philosophical defence))

Ibn Rushd (Averroes) · c. 1180

Philosophical-theological refutation · Islamic falsafa / medieval Aristotelian philosophy

"The Incoherence of the Incoherence" — Averroes's major philosophical defence against al-Ghazali's critique of the philosophers

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#306

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Late (the mature systematic statement of archetypal psychology))

Carl Gustav Jung · 1934-55 (essays composed across two decades); 1959 (compiled as Volume 9, Part 1 of the Collected Works)

Collection of essays in analytical psychology · Depth psychology / analytical psychology

The mature systematic statement of Jung's archetypal psychology — the collective unconscious, the archetypes (Self, Anima/Animus, Shadow, others), individuation

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#307

A Time for Choosing (Early (launched Reagan's political career))

Ronald W. Reagan · October 27, 1964 (broadcast nationally on behalf of Goldwater)

Political speech · American conservatism / Cold War political rhetoric

"The Speech" — Reagan's 1964 nationally televised address on behalf of Goldwater, the founding document of modern American conservatism's movement politics

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#308

Tear Down This Wall (Late (Reagan presidency at its rhetorical peak))

Ronald W. Reagan · June 12, 1987 (delivered at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin)

Political speech · American Cold War political rhetoric

"Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" — Reagan's June 1987 Berlin Wall speech, the canonical American Cold War demand for the end of Soviet division of Europe

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#309

Why Not the Best? (Mid (pre-presidential))

James Earl Carter Jr. · 1975 (campaign biography for the 1976 presidential campaign)

Campaign autobiography · American Southern evangelical political tradition

The campaign autobiography that introduced Jimmy Carter to America — Georgia governor, Naval officer, peanut farmer, born-again Southern Baptist

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#310

A Vindication of the Rights of Men (Early (preceding the more famous 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Woman))

Mary Wollstonecraft · 1790 (the first major published response to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France)

Political-philosophical pamphlet · British radical Enlightenment / early feminist political philosophy

The first published response to Burke's Reflections — Wollstonecraft's 1790 defence of the French Revolution's rationalist political principles

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#311

Faust, Part I (Mid (composed across Goethe's career; Part I the major mid-career work))

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1772-1808 (composed across decades; Part I published 1808; Part II completed 1832, posthumous)

Tragic dramatic poem in verse · German Romantic-classical literature

Faust's pact with Mephistopheles and the seduction of Gretchen — Goethe's 1808 dramatic poem, the central work of German literature

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#312

The Sorrows of Young Werther (Early (the 25-year-old Goethe's breakthrough work))

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774

Epistolary novel · German Sturm und Drang / pre-Romantic literature

Werther's romantic despair and suicide — Goethe's 1774 epistolary novel, the breakthrough work of Sturm und Drang and the inaugurating text of German Romanticism

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#313

The Power of the Powerless (Mid (Havel as principal Charter 77 dissident))

Václav Havel · 1978 (circulated in samizdat in Czechoslovakia)

Long political essay · Czech dissident philosophy / late-communist political analysis

The greengrocer's sign — Havel's 1978 essay on late-communist totalitarianism and the politics of "living in truth"

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#314

First Inaugural Address (Mid (the inauguration after twelve years of Republican presidency))

William J. Clinton · January 20, 1993

Inaugural address · American "New Democrat" political tradition

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America" — Clinton's 1993 inaugural address, the New Democrat synthesis

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#315

Six Crises (Mid (pre-presidential, post-1960 defeat))

Richard M. Nixon · 1962 (after Nixon's 1960 presidential defeat to Kennedy)

Political memoir · American Cold War political tradition

Nixon's six major political crises — Alger Hiss, the Fund Crisis, Eisenhower's heart attack, the Caracas mob, the Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate," the 1960 election

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#316

Vom Abgeschiedenheit (On Detachment) / Counsels on Discernment (Early)

Meister Eckhart (Eckhart von Hochheim) · c. 1295-98 (Eckhart's early German-vernacular work, written for the religious community at Erfurt)

Spiritual-philosophical treatise / counsels · Medieval German Christian mysticism

"The detachment of the spirit" (Abgeschiedenheit) as the central category of Christian mysticism — Eckhart's early German-vernacular spiritual treatise

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#317

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Early)

Arthur Schopenhauer · 1813 (doctoral dissertation); 1847 (revised 2nd edition)

Philosophical doctoral dissertation · German post-Kantian philosophy

The four kinds of sufficient reason — Schopenhauer's 1813 doctoral dissertation, methodological foundation for World as Will

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#318

Parerga and Paralipomena (Late)

Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851

Two-volume essay collection · German post-Kantian philosophical pessimism

The book that finally made Schopenhauer famous late in life — two volumes of essays on philosophical, religious, practical themes

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#319

Provincial Letters (Late)

Blaise Pascal · 1656-57

Series of polemical letters · French Jansenist theology

Pascal's 1656-57 defence of Jansenist theology against Jesuit casuistry — the founding text of modern French prose

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#320

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Mid-late)

David Hume · 1751

Systematic philosophical treatise · British empiricism / Scottish Enlightenment

"Of all the writings I have published, this was incomparably the best" — Hume's own preferred moral-philosophical statement

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#321

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Early)

George Berkeley · 1713

Three philosophical dialogues · British empiricism / immaterialism

The dialogue-form defence of Berkeleyan immaterialism — the more accessible companion to the 1710 Principles

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#322

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Mid)

Richard Rorty · 1989

Cultural-political essay · American neo-pragmatism

The "liberal ironist" — Rorty's framework combining private self-creation with public solidarity

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#323

Achieving Our Country (Late)

Richard Rorty · 1998

Political-philosophical book · American pragmatism / progressive politics

A critique of the cultural Left, a call for the reformist Left — Rorty's 1998 book, prophetic of subsequent American political developments

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#324

Representation and Reality (Mid)

Hilary Putnam · 1988

Systematic philosophical treatise · Analytic philosophy of mind

Putnam's rejection of his own earlier functionalism — the 1988 critique of computational-functionalist philosophy of mind

25% analytic-metaphysics 15% pragmatism 15% pragmatic-realism 10% realism 10% naturalism 5% rationalism 5% phenomenology 5% empiricism 5% constructivism 5% process-philosophy 8% analytic-philosophy +8

#325

Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Late)

John Locke · 1693

Educational-philosophical treatise · British empiricism / Enlightenment educational philosophy

The "blank slate" applied to education — Locke's 1693 treatise on forming the rational, virtuous gentleman

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#326

Symphonia harmoniae caelestium revelationum (Mid-late)

Hildegard of Bingen · c. 1150-79

Collection of c. 77 liturgical chants · Medieval German Christian mysticism / sacred music

"The symphony of the harmony of celestial revelations" — Hildegard's c. 77 liturgical chants and songs

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#327

Gravitation (Mid-late)

John Archibald Wheeler · 1973

Graduate physics textbook · 20th-century theoretical physics / philosophy of physics

"MTW" — the canonical graduate-level textbook of general relativity, by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler

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#328

It from Bit / Information, Physics, Quantum (Late)

John Archibald Wheeler · 1989-90 (the "It from Bit" thesis articulated in conference papers and essays)

Essays and conference papers · 20th-century theoretical physics / philosophy of information

It from Bit — Wheeler's late-career thesis that physical reality (the "It") emerges from informational binary distinctions (the "Bit")

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#329

A Cyborg Manifesto (Mid)

Donna Haraway · 1985 (first published in Socialist Review)

Theoretical essay · Cyberfeminism / post-humanist theory

"I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess" — Haraway's 1985 essay, the founding text of cyberfeminism and post-humanist theory

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#330

Staying with the Trouble (Late)

Donna Haraway · 2016

Theoretical-political book · Multispecies feminism / posthuman ecology

Making kin in the Chthulucene — Haraway's 2016 book on multispecies-political philosophy for the climate crisis

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#331

Beloved (Mid (the Pulitzer-winning major novel))

Toni Morrison · 1987

Novel · African American literature / modernist fiction

Sethe and the ghost of her daughter — Morrison's 1987 novel of slavery, memory, and what cannot be forgotten

20% liberation-theology 10% pragmatic-realism 10% realism 10% postmodernism 10% animism-relational-indigenous 10% african-traditional-religion-yoruba-ifa 10% ubuntu-african-communal-ontology 5% evangelical-protestantism 5% phenomenology 5% afrofuturism 5% existentialism +8

#332

Playing in the Dark (Mid-late)

Toni Morrison · 1992 (William E. Massey Lectures at Harvard, 1990)

Literary-critical essay · African American literary criticism

Whiteness and the literary imagination — Morrison's 1992 Massey Lectures, the central African American literary-critical analysis of the canonical American literature

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#333

The Sea of Fertility (Late (the major late work, completed the day of his 1970 ritual suicide))

Yukio Mishima · 1965-70 (Spring Snow 1965-67, Runaway Horses 1967-68, The Temple of Dawn 1968-70, The Decay of the Angel 1970-71)

Four-novel tetralogy · 20th-century Japanese literature

Mishima's 1965-70 tetralogy — completed the day of his ritual suicide, the major late work covering 20th-century Japan through reincarnation

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#334

Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist (Late)

Daisetsu Teitarō Suzuki · 1957

Comparative theological-philosophical study · Comparative mysticism / Zen Buddhism

Eckhart and Zen — Suzuki's 1957 sustained comparative study, the major engagement between Christian mystical and Buddhist traditions

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#335

Zen and Japanese Culture (Late)

Daisetsu Teitarō Suzuki · 1959 (developed from his 1938 Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture)

Cultural-philosophical study · Japanese Zen Buddhism / cultural studies

Zen and the arts — Suzuki's 1959 sustained study of Zen's influence on Japanese cultural traditions (swordsmanship, tea, haiku, painting)

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#336

The Reasonableness of Christianity (Late)

John Locke · 1695

Theological treatise · British empiricism / Enlightenment liberal Christianity

Christianity as reasonable belief — Locke's 1695 theological work, the major Enlightenment-rationalist Christian apologetic

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#337

Creation and Fall (Early-mid)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1932-33

Theological lectures · German Lutheran-Reformed theology

Theological exegesis of Genesis 1-3 — Bonhoeffer's 1932-33 Berlin lectures

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#338

The Hidden Words (Early)

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí) · 1858

Aphoristic spiritual sayings (71 Arabic, 82 Persian) · Bahá'í Faith

Bahá'u'lláh's aphoristic spiritual sayings

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#339

The Lion and the Jewel (Early)

Wole Soyinka · 1959

Comedy · Modern African theatre

The contest between schoolteacher Lakunle and chief Baroka for Sidi — Soyinka's 1959 comedy

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#340

Aké: The Years of Childhood (Mid)

Wole Soyinka · 1981

Memoir · Modern African autobiography

Growing up in the Yoruba town of Aké in late-colonial Nigeria

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#341

Myth, Literature and the African World (Mid)

Wole Soyinka · 1976

Critical-theoretical book · African literary-philosophical criticism

African myth and literature as the proper framework for African writing

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#342

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Mid)

Yukio Mishima · 1956

Novel · 20th-century Japanese literature / aestheticist nihilism

The fictional account of the 1950 burning of Kinkakuji — Mishima's 1956 novel of beauty, obsession, destruction

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#343

Psychology and Alchemy (Late)

Carl Gustav Jung · 1944

Psychological-historical study · Analytical psychology

Alchemy as archetypal-psychological individuation process

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#344

Answer to Job (Late)

Carl Gustav Jung · 1952

Psychological-theological essay · Analytical psychology / depth-psychological theology

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

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#345

Peace with God (Early-mid)

William Franklin "Billy" Graham · 1953

Popular evangelical theology · American evangelicalism

Graham's 1953 evangelical bestseller — the major popular statement of mid-20th-century American evangelical theology

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#346

Greek New Testament (Novum Instrumentum) (Mid)

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam · 1516

Critical edition of Greek NT with Latin translation · Renaissance Christian humanism / biblical scholarship

The first published critical Greek text of the New Testament — Erasmus's 1516 Novum Instrumentum

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#347

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

Carl Gustav Jung · 1957-61 (recorded conversations with Aniela Jaffé); published 1962

Autobiography (recorded conversations) · Analytical psychology

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

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#348

Runaway Horses (Late)

Yukio Mishima · 1969 (the second of the four Sea of Fertility novels)

Novel · 20th-century Japanese literature / aestheticist nationalism

A young right-wing nationalist's plot for assassination and ritual suicide — Mishima's 1969 second Sea of Fertility novel

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#349

An American Life (Late)

Ronald W. Reagan · 1990

Presidential autobiography · American conservative political tradition

Reagan's 1990 presidential memoir — the major retrospective account of his political career

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#350

My Life (Late)

William J. Clinton · 2004

Presidential autobiography · American New Democrat political tradition

Clinton's 2004 presidential autobiography — the major retrospective account of his career through the presidency

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Promises to Keep (Mid)

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2007

Political autobiography · American Democratic Party politics

Biden's 2007 political memoir before the 2008 presidential campaign

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Trump: The Art of the Deal (Early)

Donald J. Trump · 1987

Business autobiography · American business / political celebrity

Trump's 1987 business memoir that established his celebrity-business persona

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Principles of Nature and Grace (Late)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1714

Short philosophical-theological essay · Continental rationalism

Leibniz's 1714 short philosophical-theological statement — written shortly before his death, alongside the Monadology

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De Tranquillitate Animi (Mid-late)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca · c. 60 AD

Short philosophical essay · Roman Stoicism

"On the tranquillity of mind" — Seneca's short Stoic essay on inner peace

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De Vita Beata (Mid-late)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca · c. 58 AD

Philosophical essay · Roman Stoicism

"On the happy life" — Seneca's essay on the happy life as virtue

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Eudemian Ethics

Aristotle · c. 350 BC

Systematic ethical treatise · Classical Greek philosophy

Aristotle's alternate systematic ethical treatise — the less famous companion to the Nicomachean Ethics

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Parmenides

Plato · c. 370 BC

Philosophical dialogue · Classical Greek philosophy

Plato's middle-late dialogue — the major engagement with the difficulties of the theory of Forms

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Sophist

Plato · c. 360 BC

Philosophical dialogue · Classical Greek philosophy

Plato's late dialogue on the nature of false statement and the sophist — major engagement with Parmenidean monism

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Man's Search for Meaning (Mid-late)

Viktor E. Frankl · 1946 (German original); 1959 (English translation)

Memoir + psychological theory · 20th-century existential psychology

Viktor Frankl's founding text of logotherapy — combining concentration-camp memoir with existential psychology

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Systematic Theology (Mid)

Paul Tillich · 1951-63 (Vol I 1951, Vol II 1957, Vol III 1963)

Systematic theology · German-American Protestant philosophical theology

Tillich's three-volume Systematic Theology — the major mid-20th-century Protestant philosophical-theological synthesis

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