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10 best books like The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Isaac Kramnick): The Thomas Paine Reader, Selected Essays, The Basic Writings: On Liberty/The Subjection of Women/Utilitarianism, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things, The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom, The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II: 1865 to the Present, As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History, The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library, An Outline of Philosophy, Hegel: Three Studies

The Thomas Paine Reader
AuthorThomas Paine
ISBN0140444963
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737—1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key...
Selected Essays
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN0192836218
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.

As seen in these...
The Basic Writings: On Liberty/The Subjection of Women/Utilitarianism
AuthorJohn Stuart Mill
ISBN0375759182
The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill's three seminal and most widely read works: "On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism," A brilliant defense of individual rights versus the power...
Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things
AuthorAnn Laura Stoler
ISBN0822316900
Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines...
The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom
AuthorPeter Gay
ISBN0393313662
Gay provides an interesting dialectical model: the philosophes opposed ancient paganism to medieval Christianity in order to create an autonomous "modern paganism" (vol. I). And his writing is beautiful.

Ultimately, though, his picture of the Enlightenment is thoroughly teleological...
The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II: 1865 to the Present
AuthorDavid A. Hollinger
ISBN0195183401
Revised and updated, the fifth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion,...
As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History
AuthorJo-Ann Shelton
Revised to include new selections and updated bibliographical material, the second edition of this popular sourcebook offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents drawn from Latin and Greek source material--from...
The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library
AuthorKenneth Sylvan Guthrie
ISBN0933999518
As I said about the Presocratics and Stoics in other reviews, all the writings of the first Pythagoreans and of Pythagoras have disappeared and the fragments attributed to Pythagoras are contested. But, if not an exhaustive account of later Pythagorean writings and thought, this book is at least a...
An Outline of Philosophy
AuthorBertrand Russell
ISBN0415141176
Philosophy, Russell argues in An Outline of Philosophy, is concerned with the universe as a whole. Humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. Russell illuminates the ways in which we are capable of knowledge and discovering natural laws...
Hegel: Three Studies
AuthorTheodor W. Adorno
ISBN0262510804
This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The first study focuses on the relationship of reason, the individual, and society in Hegel, defending him against the criticism that...
The Portable Karl Marx
AuthorKarl Marx
I read this as part of a course on Marx and Dialectics. It is important to realize that Marx' communism is not that of any iteration of the Soviet Union, or any other modern "communist" state. This is fundamental political theory. It incorporates the very critical component of history, and utilizes the...
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
AuthorMichel Foucault
ISBN1565845587
The definitive edition of Foucault's articles, interviews, and seminars.

Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically...
The Portable Medieval Reader
AuthorJames Bruce Ross
ISBN0140150463
In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." The Portable Medieval Reader...
The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments
AuthorGertrude Himmelfarb
ISBN1400077222
In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from...
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
AuthorErnst Cassirer
ISBN0691019630
In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provides both a cogent synthesis & a penetrating analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse strands of thought of this period, he shows...
The Cultural Studies Reader
AuthorSimon During
ISBN0415137543
The first edition of The Cultural Studies Reader> established itself as the leading textbook in the field, providing the ideal introduction for students to this exciting and influential discipline. This expanded second edition offers:
* 38 essays including 18 new articles
* an editor's...
A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
AuthorJonathan I. Israel
ISBN0691142009
Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But...
The Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel
AuthorJacob Bronowski
ISBN0061330019
Before I speak to the book directly I must make comment on the copy itself. I read the paperback edition. The font size is approximately what you would expect for a book this size I found the printing quality to be very uneven in the footnotes to be blotchy. If nothing else my mistake was in not buying this...
Human, All Too Human/Beyond Good and Evil
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his views in a scintillating and bewildering series...
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926
AuthorWalter Benjamin
ISBN0674945859
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the 20th century, but few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press is now undertaking to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the general editorship...
The Great Philosophers
AuthorStephen Law
ISBN1847243983
The Great Philosophers presents lively and informative biographical portraits of 50 of the most important names in the history of human thought. Each chapter charts the personal life and intellectual breakthroughs of one essential philosopher and, crucially, focuses on a straightforward explanation...
Introducing the Enlightenment: A Graphic Guide
AuthorLloyd Spencer
ISBN1848311796
كتيب رائع جداً كمقدمة لعصر الأنوار الأوروبي. تعلمت من خلاله الكثير عن عصر كان سببا رئيسيا لما أوروبا و أميركا عليه الآن. ممتعةهي القراءة عن مركز التنوير...
Existentialism
AuthorJean-Paul Sartre
According to Satre, you can't be a hipster only by thinking hipster but by wearing hispter clothes, doing hipster things, making hipster friends etc.

In other words, he thinks that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world and defines himself afterwards. Man can only...
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