The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

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The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith (1928–1998), a British vis mere poet, critic, and biographer.

Note, the list has 101 books listed because the original list has Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as one work - here, they are listed separately.
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VærkKategoriOrder LabelÅr
The Annals of Tacitus af P. Cornelius Tacitus
+ 120 AD0117
Plutarch's Lives af Plutarch
+ 120 AD0100
Sextus Empiricus I: Outlines of Pyrrhonism af Sextus Empiricus
150-210 AD+ 150–2101901
Kejser Marcus Aurelius tanker til sig selv af Marcus Aurelius
+ 167 AD0170
The Works of Philo af C. D. Yonge
1st century+ 1st1991
The Nag Hammadi Library in English, Fourth Revised Edition af James M. Robinson
2nd Century+ 2nd1996
The Six Enneads af Plotinus
3rd century+ 3rd1952
Augustins bekendelser af Saint Augustine
+ 400 AD0397
The Greek New Testament af Eberhard Nestle
ca. 50–100 AD+ 50–100 (ca.)1898
Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment (Classics of Western Spirituality) af Daniel Chanan Matt
12th century+12th1982
Vergils Aeneide af Virgil
- 19 BCE0029
The Dhammapada af Anonymous
- 252 BCE0300
The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1, books 1-2 af Euclid
- 280 BCE1956
Staten af Plato
- 380 BCE0380
Avesta: The Religious Books of the Parsees. Volumes 1-3 af Arthur Henry Bleeck
3rd century BCE – 3rd century CE- 3rd–+3rd1974
Hippocratic Writings (Penguin Classics) af Hippocrates
9, 400 BCE- 400–91978
The Basic Works of Aristotle af Aristotle
4th century BCE- 4th1941
On the Nature of Things af Titus Lucretius Carus
- 55 BCE0054
The Upanishads af Anonymous
7th–5th century BCE- 7th–5th1884
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text af The Jewish Publication Society of America
13th–4th century BCE-13th–4th1917
The I Ching or Book of Changes af Richard Wilhelm
1 - 14th century BCE-14th–1st1924
Beyond Freedom & Dignity af B. F. Skinner
1971
Citater fra formand Mao Tse-Tung af Mao Tse-Tung
1966
The Feminine Mystique af Betty Friedan
1963
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions af Thomas S. Kuhn
1962
Syntactic Structures af Noam Chomsky
1957
Philosophical Investigations af Ludwig Wittgenstein
1953
Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man af G. I. Gurdjieff
1950
1984 af George Orwell
1949
Det andet køn af Simone de Beauvoir
1948
Cybernetics, or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine af Norbert Wiener
1948
Vejen til Trældom af F. A. Hayek
1943
Væren og Intet - et essay om fænomenologisk ontologi af Jean-Paul Sartre
1943
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money af John Maynard Keynes
1936
The Logic of Scientific Discovery af Karl R. Popper
1934
Processen af Franz Kafka
1925
Jeg og du af Martin Buber
1923
Psykologiske typer af C. G. Jung
1921
Relativity: The Special and General Theory af Albert Einstein
1916
The Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology af Vilfredo Pareto
1916
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking af William James
1908
Drømmetydning bind 1-2 af Sigmund Freud
1900
Således talte Zarathustra af Friedrich Nietzsche
1883-1885
A treatise on electricity and magnetism af James Clerk Maxwell
1873
Krig og fred af Leo Tolstoy
1869
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation af Gregor Mendel
1866
First Principles af Herbert Spencer
1862
Arternes Oprindelse ved Udvælgelse eller ved de heldigst stillede Formers Sejr i Kampen for Tilværelsen af Charles Darwin
1859
Om friheden af John Stuart Mill
1859
Civil lydighedsnægtelse og udvalgte breve af Henry David Thoreau
1849
Det kommunistiske manifest af Karl Marx
1848
Enten - eller af Søren Kierkegaard
1843
Introduction to Positive Philosophy af Auguste Comte
1830-1842
Om krig af Carl von Clausewitz
1832
Verden som vilje og forestilling af Arthur Schopenhauer
1819
Åndens fænomenologi af G. W. F. Hegel
1807
An Essay on the Principle of Population af Thomas Malthus
1803
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness af William Godwin
1793
Et forsvar for kvindens rettigheder af Mary Wollstonecraft
1792
Tanker om den franske revolution af Edmund Burke
1790
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire af Edward Gibbon
1776-1787
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {abridged by Hadas} af Edward Gibbon
1776-1787
Critique of Pure Reason af Immanuel Kant
1787
The Confessions af Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1781
Common Sense af Thomas Paine
1776
En undersøgelse af nationernes velstand, dens natur og årsager af Adam Smith
1776
Encyclopedia: Selections af Denis Diderot
1751-1772
Candide eller Optimismen af Voltaire
1759
A Dictionary of the English Language af Samuel Johnson
1755
A Treatise of Human Nature af David Hume
1740
The New Science af Giambattista Vico
1725
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge af George Berkeley
1710
Principia Mathematica af Isaac Newton
1687
Pilegrimmens Vandring fra denne Verden til den tilkommende : fortalt under Lignelsen af en Drøm af John Bunyan
1684
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding af John Locke
1684
Ethics af Baruch Spinoza
1677
Tanker af Blaise Pascal
1670
Philosophical Writings af Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1663
Leviathan eller Materie, form & magt i et almenvel civilt og kirkeligt af Thomas Hobbes
1651
Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy af René Descartes
1637
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican af Galileo Galilei
1632
The First Folio of Shakespeare af William Shakespeare
1623
The New Organon af Francis Bacon
1620
Harmonies of the World af Johannes Kepler
1619
Essais 1-3 af Michel de Montaigne
1580
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres af Nicolaus Copernicus
1543
Institutes of the Christian Religion af John Calvin
1536
Gargantua og Pantagruel, 1-5 af François Rabelais
1534
Three Treatises af Martin Luther
1520
Fyrsten af Niccolò Machiavelli
1513
Tåbelighedens lovprisning af Desiderius Erasmus
1509
Dantes guddommelige komedie af Dante Alighieri
1308
The Guide for the Perplexed af Moses Maimonides
1190
Homers Iliade af Homer
8th – early 7th century BCE0750
Odysseen af Homer
8th – early 7th century BCE0750
The Koran af al-Qur'an
7th century0632
Herodots Historie af Herodotus
2 - 5th century BCE0420
Tao Te King af Lao Tzu
3rd century BCE0400
The History of the Peloponnesian War af Thucydides
5th century BCE0400
The Analects af Confucius
5th–4th century BCE0070
Summa Theologica, Volume 5 (IIIa QQ. 74-90, Supplement QQ. 1-99, Chart, Analytical Index) af St. Thomas Aquinas
1266–1273
Summa Theologiae af Thomas Aquinas
1266–1273
Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (IIa IIae QQ. 1-148) af Thomas Aquinas
1266–1273
St.Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica Volume I af Saint Thomas Aquinas
1266–1273
The Summa Theologica of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Volume II af Daniel J. Sullivan
1266–1273
Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (IIa IIae QQ. 149-189, IIIa QQ. 1-73) af Aquinas Thomas
1266–1273
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The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith (1928–1998), a British poet, critic, and biographer.

Note, the list has 101 books listed because the original list has Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as one work - here, they are listed separately. (English, Member-written)
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today è un libro scritto da Martin Seymour-Smith (1928 - 1998): la prima edizione è del 1998 (Italian, Member-written)

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