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OWC NewsNovember 27, 2018
Twelve philosophy books everyone should read
Every year the third Thursday in November marks World Philosophy Day, UNESCO’s collaborative “initiative towards building inclusive societies, tolerance and peace.” To celebrate, our Philosophy staff have curated a reading list of historical texts by great philosophers that shaped the modern world and who had important things to say about the issues that we wrestle with today such as freedom, authority, equality, sexuality, and the meaning of life. Find out more about these revolutionary texts on the OUP Blog.
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Plato (427-347 B.C.E.) |
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Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) |
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John Locke (1632-1704) |
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A Treatise of Human Nature |
David Hume (1711–76) |
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Rousseau (1712-1778) |
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Adam Smith (1723 -1790) |
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Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) |
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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
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La Nausée |
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
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The Second Sex |
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
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The History of Sexuality |
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) |
Oxford World’s Classics offer comprehensive editions of several of these works (see links above).
