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| Author | Martin Seymour-Smith |
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| Cover artist | Francis Cugat |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Published | September 1998, Citadel |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| ISBN | 978-0806520001 |
| OCLC | 38258131 |
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, a British poet, critic, and biographer.
The list includes books such as the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), MAHABHARTA (a Indian satire from the Age of Krishna) and The World as Will and Representation (a book of German philosophy).
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- The Hebrew Bible, by several authors; Compilation of classic Hebrew books
- The Iliad and Odyssey, by Homer (according to tradition)
- The Upanishads, by several authors (Rishis [sages]); Compilation of classic Indian books
- Tao Te Ching, by Laozi
- The Avesta, by several authors (including Zoroaster); Compilation of classic Persian books
- Analects, by Confucius
- History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
- Hippocratic Corpus, several authors, one of whom is Hippocrates, who gives the collection its name.
- Corpus Aristotelicum, by Aristotle, compilation of books of the author
- Histories, by Herodotus
- Republic, by Plato
- Elements, by Euclid
- The Dhammapada, by Siddartha Gautama
- Aeneid, by Virgil
- De rerum natura, by Lucretius
- Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws, by Philo of Alexandria
- The New Testament, by Saint Paul and other authors; compilation of early Christian writings
- Parallel Lives, by Plutarch
- Annals, by Cornelius Tacitus
- Gospel of Truth, by Valentinus
- Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
- Outlines of Pyrrhonism, by Sextus Empiricus
- The Enneads, by Plotinus
- Confessions, by Augustine of Hippo
- The Quran, traditionally believed to have been dictated to Mohammad by Allah, later written down by early Muslims; definitive text produced by Uthman ibn Affan
- The Guide for the Perplexed, by Moses Maimonides
- The Zohar, by several authors; Compilation of texts of the Kabbalah
- Summa Theologica, by Thomas Aquinas
- Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
- In Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus
- The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
- On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, by Martin Luther
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, by François Rabelais
- Institutes of the Christian Religion, by John Calvin
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, by Nicolaus Copernicus
- Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
- Harmonices Mundi, by Johannes Kepler
- Novum Organum, by Francis Bacon
- The First Folio, by William Shakespeare, compilation of works of the author
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, by Galileo Galilei
- Discourse on the Method, by René Descartes
- Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
- Works, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Pensées, by Blaise Pascal
- Ethics, by Baruch de Spinoza
- The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
- Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, by Isaac Newton
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
- The New Science, by Giambattista Vico
- A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
- Encyclopédie, by Denis Diderot
- A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson
- Candide, by François-Marie de Voltaire
- Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
- The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon
- Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant
- Confessions, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, by William Godwin
- An Essay on the Principle of Population, by Thomas Robert Malthus
- The Phenomenology of Spirit, by George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- The World as Will and Representation, by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Course of Positive Philosophy, by Auguste Comte
- On War, by Carl von Clausewitz
- Either/Or, by Søren Kierkegaard
- The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
- On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
- On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
- First Principles of a New System of Philosophy, Herbert Spencer
- Experiments on Plant Hybridization, by Gregor Mendel
- War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
- Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, by James Clerk Maxwell
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud
- Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, by William James
- Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, by Albert Einstein
- The Mind and Society, by Vilfredo Pareto
- Psychological Types, by Carl Gustav Jung
- I and Thou, by Martin Buber
- The Trial, by Franz Kafka
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery, by Karl Popper
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, by John Maynard Keynes
- Being and Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich von Hayek
- The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir
- Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, by Norbert Wiener
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
- Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
- Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Syntactic Structures, by Noam Chomsky
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by T. S. Kuhn
- The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
- The Little Red Book, by Mao Zedong
- Beyond Freedom and Dignity, by B. F. Skinner
