Philosophy authors and series

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  Helen Keller

  Biography, 1880–1968

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Politics, 1884–1962

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  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophy, 1889–1976

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  Michel Foucault

  Philosophy, 1926–1984

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  Karl Popper

  Philosophy, 1902–1994

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  Patanjali

  Philosophy,

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  Valmiki

  Philosophy,

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  Slavoj Žižek

  Philosophy, born 1949

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  Jacques Derrida

  Philosophy, 1930–2004

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  Theodor W. Adorno

  Philosophy, 1903–1969

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  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, 1883–1969

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  Lewis Mumford

  Philosophy, 1895–1990

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  Gilles Deleuze

  Philosophy, 1925–1995

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  Jean Baudrillard

  Philosophy, 1929–2007

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  Eckhart Tolle

  Philosophy, born 1948

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  Walter Lippmann

  Politics, 1889–1974

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  Arthur Ransome

  Children's books, 1884–1967

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  Daniel Dennett

  Philosophy, 1942–2024

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  Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France

  Michel Foucault · 5 books

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  The History of Sexuality

  Michel Foucault · 3 books

• The Republic of PlatoPlato

  

  The Republic of Plato

  Plato

• SymposiumPlato

  

  Symposium

  Plato

• The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx

  

  The Communist Manifesto

  Karl Marx

• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis BonaparteKarl Marx

  

  The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

  Karl Marx

• War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy

  

  War and Peace

  Leo Tolstoy

• Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy

  

  Anna Karenina

  Leo Tolstoy

• Freedom's BattleMahatma Gandhi

  

  Freedom's Battle

  Mahatma Gandhi

• Indian Home RuleMahatma Gandhi

  

  Indian Home Rule

  Mahatma Gandhi

• Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, HellDante Alighieri

  

  Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell

  Dante Alighieri

• The Divine Comedy of Dante AlighieriDante Alighieri

  

  The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri

• Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche

  

  Beyond Good and Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• Thus Spake ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche

  

  Thus Spake Zarathustra

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud

  

  The Interpretation of Dreams

  Sigmund Freud

• A General Introduction to PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud

  

  A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

  Sigmund Freud

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  Plato

  Philosophy, 428 BC–348 BC

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  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, 1818–1883

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  Leo Tolstoy

  Drama, 1828–1910

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Politics, 1869–1948

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  Dante Alighieri

  Poetry, 1265–1321

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  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, 1844–1900

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  Sigmund Freud

  Philosophy, 1856–1939

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  Voltaire

  Philosophy, 1694–1778

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  Aristotle

  Philosophy, 383 BC–321 BC

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  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, 1724–1804

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  Confucius

  Philosophy, 550 BC–478 BC

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  Leonardo da Vinci

  Essays, 1452–1519

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  Rabindranath Tagore

  Essays, 1861–1941

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  Niccolò Machiavelli

  Philosophy, 1469–1527

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  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Biography, 1712–1778

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  René Descartes

  Philosophy, 1596–1650

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  Martin Luther

  Essays, 1483–1546

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  Augustine of Hippo

  Philosophy, 354–430

• Plato 30 books
• Karl Marx 25 books
• Leo Tolstoy 54 books
• Mahatma Gandhi 52 books
• Dante Alighieri 10 books
• Friedrich Nietzsche 26 books
• Sigmund Freud 60 books
• Voltaire 51 books
• Aristotle 0 books
• Immanuel Kant 29 books
• Confucius 1 books
• Leonardo da Vinci 0 books
• Rabindranath Tagore 63 books
• Niccolò Machiavelli 8 books
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau 25 books
• René Descartes 12 books
• Martin Luther 29 books
• Augustine of Hippo 12 books
• Adam Smith 3 books
• Benjamin Franklin 13 books
• Laozi 1 books
• John Locke 14 books
• Friedrich Engels 20 books
• Thomas Aquinas 8 books
• Marcus Aurelius 1 books
• Bertrand Russell 76 books
• Cicero 14 books
• Francis Bacon 14 books
• Sun Tzu 1 books
• Blaise Pascal 5 books
• Geoffrey Chaucer 2 books
• Hermann Hesse 27 books
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 6 books
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 11 books
• Arthur Schopenhauer 15 books
• Carl Jung 69 books
• Gustave Flaubert 11 books
• Woodrow Wilson 18 books
• Helen Keller 15 books
• Kahlil Gibran 27 books
• Søren Kierkegaard 19 books
• William Blake 17 books
• Thomas Hobbes 9 books
• John Stuart Mill 19 books
• Ralph Waldo Emerson 27 books
• David Hume 18 books
• Avicenna 2 books
• Henry David Thoreau 15 books
• John Milton 14 books
• Omar Khayyam 1 books
• Seneca the Younger 16 books
• G. K. Chesterton 85 books
• Pythagoras 0 books
• Erasmus 20 books
• Thomas Paine 14 books
• Michel de Montaigne 2 books
• Thomas More 3 books
• Tacitus 5 books
• Mary Wollstonecraft 9 books
• William James 26 books
• Xenophon 10 books
• Henri Bergson 11 books
• John Ruskin 77 books
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge 23 books
• Percy Bysshe Shelley 20 books
• Eleanor Roosevelt 19 books
• Baruch Spinoza 0 books
• Petrarch 8 books
• John Dewey 55 books
• Maurice Maeterlinck 44 books
• Thomas Carlyle 36 books
• Denis Diderot 18 books
• John Calvin 4 books
• Ibn Khaldun 4 books
• Peter Kropotkin 19 books
• Edmund Burke 28 books
• Giordano Bruno 3 books
• Martin Heidegger 49 books
• Ptolemy 3 books
• Herbert Spencer 29 books
• Henri Poincaré 5 books
• Albert Schweitzer 25 books
• Auguste Comte 6 books
• Carl von Clausewitz 1 books
• Mikhail Bakunin 3 books
• Thomas Henry Huxley 34 books
• Alexis de Tocqueville 4 books
• Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi 0 books
• Alfred North Whitehead 18 books
• Giacomo Leopardi 8 books
• Michel Foucault 44 books
• John Donne 7 books
• Ernst Haeckel 13 books
• John Bunyan 21 books
• Karl Popper 20 books
• Wassily Kandinsky 12 books
• George Berkeley 10 books
• Lucretius 1 books
• Apuleius 3 books
• Alfred Russel Wallace 20 books
• Muhammad Iqbal 15 books
• Boethius 2 books
• Miguel de Unamuno 14 books
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 5 books
• Jane Addams 9 books
• William Howard Taft 0 books
• Rudolf Steiner 64 books
• Stendhal 0 books
• Annie Besant 56 books
• François de La Rochefoucauld 2 books
• Plotinus 1 books
• Jeremy Bentham 13 books
• James VI and I 11 books
• Helena Blavatsky 17 books
• Oswald Spengler 8 books
• Thomas à Kempis 1 books
• Thomas Robert Malthus 2 books
• James George Frazer 26 books
• George Santayana 35 books
• Ludwig Feuerbach 1 books
• Galen 0 books
• Peter Abelard 4 books
• Max Stirner 2 books
• John Henry Newman 66 books
• Marquis de Sade 12 books
• Patanjali 4 books
• Matthew Arnold 38 books
• Baháʼu'lláh 13 books
• Benedetto Croce 25 books
• Samuel Butler 15 books
• Thérèse of Lisieux 7 books
• Joseph Priestley 45 books
• John Wesley 33 books
• Hugo Grotius 5 books
• Averroes 1 books
• Bertha von Suttner 6 books
• Max Müller 47 books
• William Ewart Gladstone 12 books
• Ernest Renan 13 books
• Valmiki 11 books
• Slavoj Žižek 59 books
• Emanuel Swedenborg 8 books
• Paracelsus 1 books
• Jacques Derrida 56 books
• Christine de Pizan 2 books
• Rudolf Christoph Eucken 11 books
• Theodor W. Adorno 33 books
• Jules Michelet 13 books
• Thomas De Quincey 26 books
• Henri Barbusse 4 books
• Simone Weil 25 books
• Robert Boyle 0 books
• Humphry Davy 3 books
• Hippolyte Taine 12 books
• Charles Kingsley 37 books
• Karl Jaspers 33 books
• Joseph Smith 0 books
• Lewis Mumford 26 books
• Henry Adams 20 books
• Giuseppe Mazzini 2 books
• Gilles Deleuze 40 books
• Baron d'Holbach 6 books
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 0 books
• Samuel Smiles 23 books
• Lucian 1 books
• Robert Burton 2 books
• Jean Baudrillard 37 books
• James Allen 8 books
• Frédéric Bastiat 4 books
• Havelock Ellis 30 books
• Eckhart Tolle 25 books
• Walter Lippmann 19 books
• Marguerite de Navarre 1 books
• Wilhelm Ostwald 6 books
• Camille Flammarion 12 books
• Tommaso Campanella 1 books
• William Hazlitt 16 books
• Josephus 0 books
• Edward Burnett Tylor 5 books
• Thorstein Veblen 12 books
• François Fénelon 5 books
• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield 5 books
• Svante Arrhenius 0 books
• Elbert Hubbard 20 books
• Margaret Sanger 7 books
• Percival Lowell 9 books
• Flinders Petrie 56 books
• Erasmus Darwin 9 books
• Arthur Ransome 34 books
• Julian 0 books
• Georgi Plekhanov 4 books
• Charles Richet 4 books
• Thomas Browne 4 books
• Mary Baker Eddy 16 books
• August Bebel 5 books
• Walter Pater 12 books
• Pío Baroja 8 books
• Daniel Dennett 16 books
• Zhuang Zhou 1 books
• Paul Bourget 18 books
• Manly P. Hall 82 books
• D. T. Suzuki 25 books
• Walter Bagehot 7 books
• Alan Watts 44 books
• Ronald Ross 5 books
• William Caxton 1 books
• Ramon Llull 13 books
• Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 4 books
• Ernst Mach 0 books
• Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 10 books
• A. E. Waite 34 books
• Roger Bacon 1 books
• James Mill 12 books
• Élie Metchnikoff 0 books
• Paulo Freire 26 books
• William Osler 16 books
• François Guizot 8 books
• Georg Brandes 11 books
• Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve 4 books
• Henry Hazlitt 11 books
• Edward Carpenter 21 books
• Jami 1 books
• John Tyndall 20 books
• Edward Young 19 books
• Robert G. Ingersoll 7 books
• Georges Duhamel 12 books
• Diodorus Siculus 0 books
• Jakob Böhme 5 books
• Cesare Lombroso 3 books
• Charles Webster Leadbeater 22 books
• Okakura Kakuzō 4 books
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3 books
• Paul Lafargue 3 books
• Richard Baxter 44 books
• Otto Weininger 2 books
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 4 books
• Porphyry of Tyre 4 books
• John of Damascus 0 books
• Julian of Norwich 1 books
• Philipp Melanchthon 2 books
• Charles Fort 4 books
• Clarence Darrow 8 books
• Parmenides 0 books
• Anaximander 0 books
• Errico Malatesta 4 books
• Mortimer J. Adler 54 books
• Evelyn Underhill 38 books
• Oliver Lodge 32 books
• William Hogarth 0 books
• ʻAbdu'l-Bahá 10 books
• William Whewell 9 books
• Edvard Westermarck 13 books
• Charles Sanders Peirce 0 books
• Lev Shestov 6 books
• Arthur de Gobineau 4 books
• Marquis de Condorcet 3 books
• John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton 4 books
• Albert Pike 13 books
• John Wycliffe 0 books
• I. A. Richards 21 books
• Nitobe Inazō 3 books
• John Greenleaf Whittier 22 books
• William Wilberforce 6 books
• Giambattista della Porta 2 books
• James Lovelock 12 books
• Empedocles 0 books
• Proclus 1 books
• James Anthony Froude 23 books
• Johann Kaspar Lavater 5 books
• John Knox 3 books
• Bernard Mandeville 5 books
• David Starr Jordan 26 books
• Liberty Hyde Bailey 24 books
• Hugo Münsterberg 13 books
• Remy de Gourmont 3 books
• Jane Ellen Harrison 16 books
• Victoria Woodhull 13 books
• Dwight L. Moody 19 books
• William Paley 7 books
• Harold Laski 19 books
• Douglas Hofstadter 8 books
• Ellen Key 14 books
• Marilynne Robinson 11 books
• Edmund Gosse 37 books
• Jean-François Lyotard 10 books
• Emily Post 8 books
• Henri-Frédéric Amiel 3 books
• Hendrik Willem van Loon 15 books
• Leslie Stephen 19 books
• Adam Ferguson 9 books
• Robert M. Pirsig 4 books
• Xenophanes 0 books
• Giovanni Papini 7 books
• Emmanuel Levinas 11 books
• Hippolytus of Rome 2 books
• David Strauss 8 books
• Henry Sidgwick 6 books
• Richard Rorty 14 books
• R. H. Tawney 14 books
• A. J. Ayer 20 books
• William Lloyd Garrison 5 books
• Henry Steel Olcott 7 books
• William of Ockham 1 books
• Owen Barfield 13 books
• Max Nordau 3 books
• Susanne Langer 6 books
• Zeno of Elea 0 books
• Henry Ward Beecher 16 books
• Vernon Lee 34 books
• Alain Badiou 22 books
• Fredric Jameson 20 books
• Catharine Beecher 15 books
• Max Heindel 12 books
• Amos Bronson Alcott 7 books
• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl 7 books
• Bruno Latour 19 books
• Augustus De Morgan 0 books
• Leszek Kołakowski 15 books
• George Henry Lewes 14 books
• Alexander Bain 18 books
• A. C. Benson 36 books
• G. E. Moore 0 books
• Lysander Spooner 4 books
• Joseph Butler 6 books
• Albertus Magnus 2 books
• Francis Younghusband 18 books
• William Jennings Bryan 23 books
• Abu al-Ala al-Maarri 0 books
• Byung-Chul Han 24 books
• Ken Wilber 26 books
• George William Russell 11 books
• John Morley 16 books
• Victor Cousin 10 books
• Giorgio Agamben 23 books
• Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon 10 books
• Nicholas of Cusa 3 books
• Vātsyāyana 0 books
• Émile Faguet 5 books
• Mary Astell 7 books
• Douglas Fairbanks 5 books
• Vladimir Solovyov 6 books
• Celsus 1 books
• Zeno of Citium 0 books
• Alfred Binet 0 books
• Horace Mann 4 books
• George Grote 13 books
• Richard Whately 11 books
• Ernest Gellner 22 books
• Saul Kripke 3 books
• Harry Emerson Fosdick 22 books
• Christopher Alexander 19 books
• August Wilhelm Schlegel 1 books
• Josiah Royce 20 books
• Leonard Hobhouse 13 books
• Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney 4 books
• Jacob Bronowski 14 books
• Ninon de l'Enclos 0 books
• Roger Williams 3 books
• William Carey 4 books
• Roscoe Pound 16 books
• Frances Power Cobbe 6 books
• Ibn Tufayl 0 books
• William Ralph Inge 19 books
• Walther Rathenau 3 books
• William Ellery Channing 6 books
• Peter Sloterdijk 18 books
• William Stanley Jevons 0 books
• Xavier de Maistre 2 books
• Voltairine de Cleyre 1 books
• John Bowring 4 books
• Isaac Barrow 0 books
• Thomas Clarkson 8 books
• Ferruccio Busoni 0 books
• Enrico Ferri 3 books
• Clive Bell 6 books
• Frederic W. H. Myers 11 books
• Agnes Mary Clerke 5 books
• Iwan Bloch 6 books
• Heinrich Bullinger 10 books
• Apolinario Mabini 1 books
• Derek J. de Solla Price 4 books
• George Herbert Mead 0 books
• Felix Adler 7 books
• John Bates Clark 12 books
• Éliphas Lévi 0 books
• Charles Ives 0 books
• Nicolas Malebranche 2 books
• Ralph Barton Perry 18 books
• F. C. S. Schiller 9 books
• Giovanni Gentile 0 books
• Antonio Labriola 2 books
• Jean-Marie Guyau 4 books
• William Muir 6 books
• Nikolaj Velimirović 3 books
• Émile Souvestre 7 books
• Jaime Balmes 3 books
• Ernest Becker 9 books
• Shoghi Effendi 0 books
• George Romanes 15 books
• George Holyoake 32 books
• G. E. M. Anscombe 8 books
• Josephine Butler 0 books
• John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury 0 books
• Theodore Parker 41 books
• Alexander Goldenweiser 4 books
• Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede 14 books
• Henry Home, Lord Kames 12 books
• Ptahhotep 0 books
• Izaak Walton 1 books
• Philip Doddridge 8 books
• Alfred Schütz 5 books
• William Quan Judge 3 books
• Auguste Forel 0 books
• Mary Midgley 21 books
• Richard de Bury 1 books
• Aleksandr Dugin 3 books
• Iamblichus 2 books
• Balfour Stewart 8 books
• T. H. Green 5 books
• Thomas Reid 4 books
• Mario Bunge 12 books
• Gianni Vattimo 14 books
• Alfred Korzybski 0 books
• Rudolf Otto 0 books
• Eudoxus of Cnidus 0 books
• Charles Bradlaugh 0 books
• Benjamin N. Cardozo 10 books
• Ethan Allen 5 books
• Charles Nicolle 0 books
• James Harrington 9 books
• Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro 4 books
• Anna J. Cooper 1 books
• Ameen Rihani 6 books
• Hayden White 4 books
• Wilhelm Dilthey 2 books
• Nick Land 6 books
• J. A. Hobson 0 books
• T. E. Hulme 2 books
• Allan Bloom 5 books
• Brian Christian 4 books
• Timothy Dexter 0 books
• Paul Virilio 14 books
• J. B. Bury 0 books
• Philippe de Mornay 6 books
• Alain Finkielkraut 8 books
• John Wilkins 0 books
• Sandra Harding 6 books
• Carl Gustav Hempel 3 books
• Paolo Mantegazza 0 books
• Ferdinand I of Bulgaria 1 books
• John Scotus Eriugena 0 books
• Washington Allston 5 books
• Johann Arndt 0 books
• Kitarō Nishida 4 books
• William Stukeley 0 books
• Evelyn Fox Keller 7 books
• James Legge 0 books
• Hans Driesch 0 books
• Lorenz Oken 0 books
• Paul Janet 5 books
• Albert Gallatin 19 books
• Posidonius 0 books
• Joseph Dietzgen 0 books
• John Fiske 0 books
• John Taylor 0 books
• Nassau William Senior 0 books
• Daniel Garrison Brinton 0 books
• Avempace 0 books
• Solomon ibn Gabirol 0 books
• Louis Figuier 0 books
• Wu Qi 0 books
• Andrew Murray 0 books
• Daniel Halévy 6 books
• Simon Dubnow 0 books
• Pseudo-Longinus 0 books
• Salomon Maimon 0 books
• Eduard Zeller 7 books
• Florence Scovel Shinn 0 books
• Wallace Wattles 0 books
• Erwin Chargaff 2 books
• Hermann Lotze 11 books
• Joseph McCabe 0 books
• John Zerzan 6 books
• Brother Lawrence 0 books
• Terence MacSwiney 3 books
• Bernard Bosanquet 0 books
• Albert Seward 0 books
• Henry Stephens Salt 0 books
• Ernst Troeltsch 4 books
• Robert Garnier 2 books
• Édouard Le Roy 0 books
• John William Dawson 0 books
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• Roman Ingarden 2 books
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• Mary Wigman 2 books

Philosophy FAQ

Who are the best philosophy authors?

The best-known philosophy authors here, ranked by how widely they are read and written about, are Plato, Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi and Dante Alighieri.

What are the best philosophy series?

Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France by Michel Foucault and The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault — each listed in reading order.

Can I read philosophy books for free?

Yes. 2,594 philosophy books by these authors are in the public domain in the US and free to read here.