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Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant)
1.  Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant
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  "Arguably the most important philosophy book ever written. Academies around the world still try to get in terms with what Kant left behind."
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Treatise of Human Nature
2.  Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
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  "A great inspiration for Kant, but also for many others. An extremely radical and skeptical attack on to what extend knowledge is indeed possible"
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The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
3.  The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by Peter H. Nidditch
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  "Often regarded as the foundation of Empirical Philosophy, an important, wide and deep digging book that sets aside every possibility of the brain to gain knowledge on its own."
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Francis Bacon: The New Organon (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
4.  Francis Bacon: The New Organon (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Francis Bacon
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  "Although the credit often goes to Locke, the credit actually should go to Bacon. This book contains much of the foundations of Modern Science as we practice it today."
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Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
5.  Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Jonathan Israel
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  "Due to the radical conclusion this book has, this book only could be published in the Netherlands. Radical in every meaning of the word and one of the texts that triggered the Enlightenment."
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
6.  The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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  "Wow, this an amazing book. Everybody that tries to understand 20th Century politics and history, should read this book. Be sure to get this one and not the Penguin edition."
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Philosophical Investigations
7.  Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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  "Controversial, confusing, fragmentary and deep. But, certainly the most important philosophy text of the 20th Century. It's about time we're listen to Wittgenstein and follow the advised in this book."
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Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
8.  Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor
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  "The Phenomenology Of Spirit, but then lesser abstract and completely with historical references. The book that Hegel should have written."
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Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present)
9.  Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Max Horkheimer
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  "Hegel promoted the idea that history was pushing more freedom & self awareness, but Adorno & Horkheimer showed us that this self awareness at the same time also would be our downfall."
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The Civilizing Process
10.  The Civilizing Process by Norbert Elias
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  "Every government that denies his responsibility and doesn't set an example, should read this book."
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How to Do Things with Words (William James Lectures)
11.  How to Do Things with Words (William James Lectures) by Jl Austin
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  "The book that made language do more than only expression feelings, thoughts, etc."
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
12.  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn
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  "True or not true, but Kuhn showed us more than anyone else how science develops and works."
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Penguin Social Sciences)
13.  Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Penguin Social Sciences) by Michel Foucault
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  "All the works of Foucault are mandatory, but this was the one that scarred me most.  Right from the first page a gripping read."
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Orientalism
14.  Orientalism by Edward W. Said
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  "The way Said critisized oriental studies, should be applied on every different field of humanities, with the result to become more aware about their own pretensions."
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Routledge Classics)
15.  Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Routledge Classics) by Tony Bennett
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  "I don't think I have read any other philosopher, that had a better and more adequate idea of society, the way it works and how societies use education to maintain social stratification."
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
16.  The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society by Jurgen Habermas
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  "Habermas wrote many important books, but it all started with this one, the most influential PHD ever published."
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
17.  Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams
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  "Williams showed here how the meaning of words changed over time and began to mean something completely different.  Should be read together with Culture & Society."
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Of Grammatology
18.  Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
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  "Derrida's most important work. Complex and complicated but an amazing read."
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Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
19.  Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
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  "Enough said. The foundation of Modern Philosophy and rationalism in particulair. Very few philosophers wrote so vivid and light."
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory & History of Literature)
20.  The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory & History of Literature) by Jean-Francois Lyotard
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  "Lyotard made the world aware of where we are and where to go."
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition
21.  Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition by David Bromwich
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  "The book that addressed the idea that language was not always a perfect reflection of reality."
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Against Method
22.  Against Method by Paul K. Feyerabend
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  "Former student of Popper, but went against everything that his master had taught him."
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge Classics)
23.  The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge Classics) by Karl Popper
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  "Popper's most influential work."
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Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
24.  Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books) by G. W. F. Hegel
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  "Extremely important book. But, to understand better what Hegel meant, one can better read Taylor's Sources Of The Self."
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The World as Will and Representation - Volume 1: v. 1
25.  The World as Will and Representation - Volume 1: v. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer
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  "Proclaimed himself as the true inheritor of Kant's ideas, and wrote an austounding masterpiece which was unfortunatly not recognised as such in his own time. Read part 2 as we'll : 0486217620"
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