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Books that mark the history of the Humanities since early-modern humanism
(for heuristic purposes only)

Simon During

Valla, Lorenzo. De Voluptate (On Pleasure) and De liberio arbitrio (On Free Will) (c. 1433)
Ficino, Marsilio. Theologia platonica (Platonic Theology) (1482)
Mirandola, Pico de. De hominis dignitate (Oration on the Dignity of Man) (1496)
Machievelli, Niccolo. Il Principe (The Prince) (1513)
Erasmus, Institutio principis Christiani (Education of a Christian Prince) (1516)
Vives, Juan. De Causis Corruptarum Artium (On the Reasons for the Decay of the Arts) (1531)
Montaigne, Michel de. Les Essais (Essays) (1580-)
Bruno, Giordani. De linfinito universe et mondi (On the Infinite Universe and Worlds) (1584)
Bacon, Francis. Essays (1597-)
Charron, Pierre. De la Sagesse (On Wisdom) (1601-)
Sarpi, Paolo. Istoria del Concilio Tridentino (History of the Council of Trent) (1619)
Grotius, Hugo. De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) (1625)
Descartes, Rn. Meditationes de prima philosophia (Meditations on the First Philosophy) (1641)
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan (1651)
Arnauld, Antoine and Pierre Nicole. La Logique ou I'Art de Penser (The Port Royal Logic) (1662)
Pufendorf, Samuel. De iure naturae et gentium (On the Law of Nature and Nations) (1672)
Malebranche, Nicole. De la recherche de la verite (Search after Truth) (1674-)
Spinoza, Baruch. Ethics (1677)
Simon, Richard. Histoire critique du Vieux Testament (Critical History of the Old Testament) (1678)
Bossuet, Jacques-Bnigne. Discours sur l'histoire universelle (Discourse on Universal History) (1681)
Spencer, John. De legibus Hebraeorum ritualibus ei earumque ralionibus libri ires (On the Laws of
Hebrew Ritual) (1685)
Fontenelle, Bernard de. Digression sur les anciens et les modernes (1688)
Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690-)
LeClerc, Jean. Genesis sive Mosis prophetae liber primus (Commentary on the Book of Genesis) (1692)
Bayle, Pierre. Le Dictionnaire historique et critique (Historical and Critical Dictionary) (1697-)
Fnelon, Franois. Les Aventures de Tlmaque (Telemachus) (1699)
Toland, John. Christianity not Mysterious (1699)
Temple, William. Miscellanae (1705-)
Mandeville, Bernard. The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices and Public Virtues (1705-)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Thodice (Theodicy) (1710)
Shaftesbury. Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711-)
Wolff, Christian. Vernnftige Gedanken von den Krften des menschlichen Verstandes (1712)
Collins, Anthony. A Discourse of Freethinking (1713)
Vico, Giambattista. Principi di una Scienza Nuova (The New Science) (1725)
Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature (1738-)
Middleton, Conyers. Life of Cicero (1741)
Montesquieu, De lEsprit des Lois (The Spirit of the Laws) (1748)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discours sur Les sciences et les Arts (Discourse on the Arts and Sciences) (1750)
Voltaire. Le Sicle de Louis XIV (The Age of Louis XIV) (1751)
d'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste. Discourse Prliminaire (Introduction to the Encyclopaedia) (1751)
Lowth, Robert. Praelectiones Academicae de Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum (On the Sacred Poetry of the
Hebrews) (1754)
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Hurd, Richard. Moral and Political Dialogues (1759-)

Blair, Hugh. A Critical Dissertation on the poems of Ossian (1763)
Lessing, Gothold Ephraim. Laokoon oder ber die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (Laokoon: or the
limits of poetry and painting) (1766)
Ferguson, Adam. Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)
Raynal, Guillaume. L'Histoire philosophique et politique des tablissements et du commerce des Europens
dans les deux Indes (Philosophical and Political History of the Two Indies) (1770)
Herder, Johann Gottfried. Eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit (A Philosophy of
the History for the Formation of Mankind) (1774)
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-)
Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the Poets (1779-)
Kant, Immanuel. Kritik einer reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason) (1781-)
Mendelsohn, Moses. Jerusalem (1783)
Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich. Briefe ber die Lehre Spinozas (Letters on Spinozas Teaching) (1785)
William Jones, The Sanskrit Language (1786)
Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man (1891)
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
Schiller, Friedrich. ber die sthetische Erziehung des Menschen (Letters on the Aesthetic Education of
Man) (1794)
Diderot, Denis. Le Supplment au voyage de Bougainville (Supplement to Bougainvilles Voyage)
(1795)
Condorceret, Marie Jean. Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrs de l'esprit humain (Sketch for a
Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind) (1795)
Maistre, Joseph de. Considrations sur la France (Considerations on France) (1796)
Hegel, G.W.F. Die Phnomenologie des Geistes (The Phenomenology of Spirit) (1807)
Schlegel, Frederic. ber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of the
Indies) (1808)
Sismondi, Jean Charles. Histoire des rpubliques italiennes du Moyen ge (The History of the Italian
Republics in the Middle Ages) (1807)
Mller, Adam. Elemente der Staatskunst (Elements of Statecraft) (1809)
De Stael, Germaine. De lAllemagne (On Germany) (1810)
Owen, Robert. A New View of Society (1813)
Schopenhauer, Arthur. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation)
(1819).
Coleridge, Samuel. On the Constitution of the Church and State (1830)
Clausewitz, Carl von. Hinterlassene Werke ber Krieg und Kriegfhrung (On War) (1832-)
Ranke, Leopold. Die rmischen Ppste in den letzten vier Jahrhunderten (The ecclesiastical and political
history of the popes of Rome during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) (1834-)
Tocqueville, Alexis de. De la Dmocratie en Amrique (Democracy in America) (1835-)
Droysen, Johann Gustav. Geschichte des Hellenismus (History of Hellenism) (1836-)
Feuerbach, Ludwig. Das Wesen der Christentums (On the Essence of Christianity) (1841)
Comte, August. Discours sur l'Esprit positif (A General View of Positivism) (1844)
Stirner, Max. Der Einzige und sein Eigentum (The Ego and its Own) (1845)
Grote, George. A History of Greece; from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation
Contemporary with Alexander the Great (1846-)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. The History of England (1848-)
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice (1851-)
Spencer, Herbert. Social Statics (1851)
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Newman, John Henry. The Idea of a University (1852)

Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty (1859)
Burkhardt, Jacob. Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (The Culture of the Renaissance in Italy)
(1860)
Maine, Henry. Ancient Law (1861)
Renan, Ernst. La Vie de Jsus (Life of Jesus) (1863)
Taine, Hyppolite. Histoire de la Littrature Anglaise (History of English Literature) (1864)
Gierke, Otto von. Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht (German Law of Associations) (1868)
Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Society (1869)
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die Geburt der Tragdie aus dem Geiste der Musik (The Birth of Tragedy) (1872)
Pater, Walter. Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)
Brentano, Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint) (1874)
Morelli, Giovanni. Die Werke italienischer Meister (The Works of the Italian Masters) (1880)
Dilthey, Wilhelm. Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften (Introduction to the Humanities) (1883)
Green, T.H. Prolegemena to Ethics (1884)
Royce, Josiah. The Religious Aspect of Philosophy (1885)
Frazer, James. The Sacred Bough (1890-)
Bradley, F.H. Appearance and Reality (1893)
Laski, Harold. Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1893)
Maitland, Fredric. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1895)
Bergson, Henri. Matire et Mmoire (Matter and Memory) (1896)
Husserl, Edmund. Logische Untersuchungen (Logical Investigations) (1900)
Croce, Benedetto. L'Estetica come scienza dell'espressione e linguistica generale (Aesthetic) (1902)
Hobson, John. Imperialism: a Study (1902)
James, Williams. The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
Harrison, Jane. Prolegemena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903)
Weber, Max. Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (The Protestant Ethic and the
Spirit of Capitalism) (1904)
Maurras, Charles. L'Avenir de l'intelligence (The Future of the Intelligensia) (1905)
Sorel, Georges. Rflexions sur la violence (Reflections on Violence) (1908)
Belloc, Hilaire. The Servile State (1912)
Fenollosa, Ernest. Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art (1912)
Gundolf, Friederich. Goethe (1916)
Worringer, Wihelm. Abstraktion und Einfhlung (Abstraction and Empathy) (1907)
Santanyana, George. Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante and Goethe (1910)
Durkheim, mile. Les Formes lmentaires de la vie religieuse (The Elementary Forms of Religious Life)
(1912)
Moore, George, Ethics (1912)
Saussure, Ferdinand de. Cours de linguistique gnrale (Course in General Linguistics) (1916)
Spengler, Otto. Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West) (1918-)
Rosenzweig, Franz. Der Stern der Erlosung (The Star of Redemption) (1921)
Cassirer, Ernst. Philosophie der symbolischen Formen (Philosophy of Symbolic Forms )(1923-)
Peirce, Charles. Chance, Love and Logic (1923)
Lukacs, Georg. Geschichte und Klassenbewutsein: Studien ber marxistische Dialektik (History and
Class Consciousness (1923)
Babbitt, Irving. Democracy and Leadership (1924)
Meinecke, Friedrich. Die Idee der Staatsrson in der neueren Geschichte (The Idea of Reason of State in
modern history) (1924)
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Plessner, Helmut. Grenzen der Gemeinschaft. Eine Kritik des sozialen Radikalismus, (Limits to
Community: a critique of social radicalism) (1924)
Febvre, Lucien. A Geographical Introduction to History (1925)
Mauss, Marcel. Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'change dans les socits archaques (The Gift)
(1925)
Shklovsky, Victor. The Art of Prose (1925)
Whitehead, A.N. Science and the Modern World (1925)
Benda, Julian. La trahison des clercs (The Betrayal of the Intellectuals) (1927)
Heidegger, Martin. Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) (1927)
Kantorowicz, Ernst. Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite (Frederick the Second, 1194-1250) (1927)
Carnarp, Rudolf. Der logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World) (1928)
Scheler, Max. Die Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos, (The Human Place in the Cosmos) (1928)
Mannheim, Karl. Ideologie und Utopie (Ideology and Utopia) (1929)
Richards, I.A. Practical Criticism (1929)
Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)
Gasset, Ortega y. La rebelin de las masas (The Revolt of the Masses, 1930)
Butterfield, Herbert. The Whig Interpretation of History (1931)
Leavis, Q.D. Fiction and the Reading Public (1932)
Schmitt, Carl. Der Begriff des Politischen (The Concept of the Political) (1932)
Dawson, Christopher. The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European
Unity (1932)
Dewey, John. Art as Experience (1934)
Hulme, T.E. Speculations (1936)
Ayer, A.J. Language, Truth and Logic (1936)
James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938)
Elias, Norbert. ber den Proze der Zivilisation (The Civilizing Process) (1939)
Bloch, Marc. La Socit fodale (Feudal Society) (1939)
Dumzil, Georges. Mitra-Varuna (1940)
Scholem, Gershom. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941)
Canguihelm, Georges. Le Normal et le pathologique (The Normal and the Pathological) (1943)
Leavis, F.R. Education and the University (1943)
Eliot, T.S. Notes towards a definition of culture (1943)
Bataille, Georges. L'exprience intrieure (Inner Experience) (1943)
Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer. Dialektik der Aufklrung (Dialectic of Enlightenment)
(1944-)
Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation (1944)
Burke, Kenneth. A Grammar of Motives (1945)
Popper, Karl. The Open Society and its Enemies (1945-)
Sartre, Jean-Paul. L'existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism is a Humanism) (1946)
Auerbach, Eric Mimesis (1946)
Kojve, Alexandre. Introduction la lecture de Hegel. Leons sur la Phnomnologie de
l'esprit (Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit) (1947)
Curtius, Ernst Robert. Europische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter (European Literature and the
Latin Middle Ages) (1948)
Gramsci, Antonio. Quaderni del carcere (Prison Notebooks) (1948-)
Morgenthau, Hans. Politics among Nations: the struggle for power and peace (1948)
Beauvoir, Simone de. Le Deuxime Sexe (The Second Sex) (1949)
Braudel, Ferdinand. La Mditerrane et le monde mditerranen l'poque de Philippe II (The
Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World) (1949-)
Cioran, Emil. Prcis de dcomposition ("A Short History of Decay") ((1949)
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Lwith, Karl. Weltgeschichte und Heilsgeschehen (Meaning in History) (1949)

Benjamin, Walter Illuminationen (Illuminations) (1950)
Trilling, Lionel. The Liberal Imagination (1950)
Innis, Harold. Empire and Communication (1950)
Paz, Octavio. El laberinto de la soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude) (1950)
Camus, Albert. L'homme rvolt (The Rebel) (1951)
Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
Dodds, E.R. Greeks and the Irrational (1951)
Voegelen, Eric. New Science of Politics (1951)
Frege, Gottlob. Philosophical Writings (1952)
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character
(1953)
Berlin, Isaiah. The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1953)
Strauss, Leo. Natural Right and History (1953)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophischen Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations) (1953)
Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China (1954-)
Austen, J.L. How to do Things with Words (1955)
Blanchot, Maurice. L'Espace littraire (The Space of Literature) (1955)
Marcuse, Herbert. Eros and Civilization: a philosophical enquiry into Freud (1955)
Csaire, Aim. Discours sur le colonialism (Discourse on Colonialism) (1955)
Momigliano, Arnaldo. Contributi alla storia degli studi classici e del mondo antico (Contributions to the
history of the classical world) (1955-)
Jakobson Roman. Fundamentals of Language (1956)
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies (1957)
Chomsky, Noam. Syntactic Structures (1957)
Gehlen, Arnold. Die Seele im technischen Zeitalter (Man in the Age of Technology) (1957)
Koyr, Alexander. From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957)
Starobinski, Jean. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: la transparence et lobstacle (Jean-Jacques Rousseau: the
transparency and the obstacle) (1957)
Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel (1957)
Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society: 1780-1950 (1958)
Bachelard, Gaston. La Potique de l'Espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958)
Levi-Strauss, Claude. Anthropologie structurale, (Structural Anthropology) (1958)
Bazin, Andr. Qu'est-ce que le cinma ? (What is Cinema?) (1958-)
Koselleck, Reinhart. Kritik und Krise (Critique and Crisis) (1959)
Bell, Daniel. The End of Ideology (1960)
Kelsen, Hans. General Theory of Law and State (1960)
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Wahrheit und Methode (Truth and Method) (1960)
Quine, Willard van Orman. Word and Object (1960)
Popkin, Richard. The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes (1960)
Smith, Bernard. European Vision and the South Pacific (1960)
Fanon, Frantz. Les Damns de la Terre (The Wretched of the Earth) (1961)
Kuhn, Thomas. The Structures of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
Habermas, Jrgen. Strukturwandel der ffentlichkeit (The Structural Transformation of the Public
Sphere) (1962)
Sellars, Wilfred. Science, Perception and Reality (1963)
Nolte, Ernst. Der Faschismus in seiner Epoche. Action francaise Italienischer Faschismus
Nationalsozialismus (Three Faces of Fascism) (1963)
Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class (1963)
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Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique (1963)

Bakhtin, Mikhail. Rabelais and his World (1965)
Furet, Franois. La Rvolution Franaise (The French Revolution) (1965)
Althusser, Louis. Lire le Capital (Reading Capital) (1965)
Goffman, Irving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1965)
Ricouer, Paul. De l'interprtation. Essai sur Sigmund Freud (Freud and Philosophy) (1965)
Benveniste, Emile. Problmes de linguistique gnrale (Problems of General Linguistics) (1966)
Berger, Peter and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality (1966)
Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966)
Debord, Guy. La socit du spectacle (Society of the Spectacle) (1967)
Nash, Roderick. Environmentalism and the American Mind (1967)
Derrida, Jacques. De la Grammatologie (Of Grammatology) (1967)
Venturi, Franco. Utopia e riforma nell'Illuminismo, (Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment) (1970)
Cavell, Stanley. The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (1971)
Corbin, Henri. En Islam Iranien: Aspects spirituels et philosophiques (In Iranian Islam) (1971)
Eliade, Mircea. The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (1971)
Mitchell, Juliet. Womens Estate (1971)
Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice (1971)
Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971)
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing (1972)
Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari, Anti Oedipus (1972)
Kripke, Saul. Naming and Necessity (1972)
Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1973)
Clark. T.J. The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 18481851 (1973)
Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures (1973)
Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the
European World Economy in the Sixteenth Century (1974)
Oakeshott, Michael. On Human Conduct (1975)
Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir (Discipline and Punish) (1975)
Feyerabend, Paul. Against Method (1975)
Ian Hacking. The Emergence of Probability (1975)
Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. Montaillou, village Occitan de 1294 1324 (1975).
Metz, Christian. Le Signifiant Imaginaire: Psychanalyse et Cinma (The Imaginary Signifier:
Psychoanalysis and the Cinema) (1975)
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation (1975)
Bloor, David. Knowledge and Social Imagery (1976)
Anderson, Perry. Considerations on Western Marxism (1976)
Ginzburg, Carlos. Il formaggio e i vermi. Il cosmo di un mugnaio del Cinquecento (The Cheese and the
Worms) (1976)
Hirschmann, Albert. The Passions and the Interests (1977)
Brunsdon, Charlotte and David Morley. Everyday TelevisionNationwide (1978)
Said, Edward. Orientalism (1978)
Skinner, Quentin. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978)
Levinas, Emmanuel. De l'existence l'existant (From existence to existants) (1978)
Bourdieu, Pierre. La Distinction (Distinction) (1979)
Blumenberg, Hans. Arbeit am Mythos (Work on Myth) (1979)
Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: the Meaning of Style (1979)
Nagel, Thomas. Mortal Questions (1979)
de Certeau, Michel. L'invention du quotidian (The Structure of Everyday Life) (1980)
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Fumaroli, Marc. Lge de lloquence: rhtorique et res literaria de la Renaissance au seuil de

lpoque classique (The Age of Eloquence) (1980)
Fried, Michael. Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot (1980)
Taussig, Mick. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America (1980)
MacIntyre, Alisdair. After Virtue (1981)
Marin, Louis. Le Portrait du Roi (The Portrait of the King) (1981)
Marquard, Odo. Abschied vom Prinzipiellen (Farewell to Principles) (1981)
Berman, Marshall. All that is Solid Melts into Air (1982)
Wolf, Eric. Europe and the People without History (1982)
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism (1983)
Guha, Ranijit. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (1983)
Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger (eds.) The Invention of Tradition (1983)
Loventhal, David. The Past is a Foreign Country (1984)
Lyotard, Jean-Franois. La Condition postmoderne: Rapport sur le savoir (The Postmodern Condition)
(1984)
Nora, Pierre. Les Lieux de mmoire (Places of Memory) (1984-)
Kittler, Friedrich. Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900. (Discourse Networks 1800/1900) (1985)
Pateman, Carole. The Sexual Contract (1985)
Rorty, Richard. Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (1985)
Spivak, Gayatri. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987)
Wehler, Hans-Ulrich. Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte (German Social History) (1987-)
Badiou, Alain. Ltre et lvnement (Being and Event) (1988)
Novick, Peter, 'That Noble Dream': the Objectivity Question in American History (1988)
Greenblatt, Stephen. Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance
England (1989)
Haraway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989)
MacKinnon, Catherine. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989)
Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990)
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemologies of the Closet (1990)
Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)
Jauss, Hans Robert. sthetische Erfahrung und literarische Hermeneutik (Aesthetic Experience and
Literary Hermeneutics (1991)
Fukuyama, Francis. The End of History and the Last Free Man (1992)
Brenner, Robert. Merchants and revolution : commercial change, political conflict, and London's
overseas traders, 15501653 (1993)
Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter (1993)
Williams, Bernard. Shame and Necessity (1993)
Arrighi, Giovanni. The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times (1994)
Brandom, Robert. Making it Explicit (1994)
Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of
American Culture (1995)
Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer (1995)
Grove, Richard. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of
Environmentalism, 1600-1860 (1995)
Guillory, John. Cultural Capital (1995)
Hadot, Pierre. Qu'est-ce que la philosophie antique? (What is ancient philosophy?) (1995)
Kymlicka, Will. Multicultural Citizenship (1995)
Sandel, Michael. Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1998)
Scott, James. Seeing like a State (1998)
Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom (1999)
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Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe (2000)

Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the World Economy
(2000)
Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia (2001)
Moretti, Franco. Graphs, Maps and Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History (2005)
Pocock, J.G.A. The Discovery of Islands (2005)
Assmann, Jan. Moses the Egyptian (2009)
Graeber, David. Debt: the first 5000 years (2011)
Simms, Brendan. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present (2013)