Baldesar Castiglione How to Achieve True Greatness
Francis Bacon Of Empire
Thomas Hobbes Of Man
Sir Thomas Browne Urne-Burial
Voltaire Miracles and Idolatry
David Hume On Suicide
Carl von Clausewitz On the Nature of War
Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling
Henry David Thoreau Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Thorstein Veblen Conspicuous Consumption
Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus
Hannah Arendt Eichmann and the Holocaust
Plutarch In Consolation to his Wife
Robert Burton Some Anatomies of Melancholy
Adam Smith The Invisible Hand
Edmund Burke The Evils of Revolution
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
Søren Kierkegaard The Sickness unto Death
John Ruskin The Lamp of Memory
Friedrich Nietzsche Man Alone with Himself
Leo Tolstoy A Confession
William Morris Useful Work v. Useless Toil
Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Marcel Proust Days of Reading
Leon Trotsky An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe
Sigmund Freud The Future of an Illusion
Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Albert Camus The Fastidious Assassins
Frantz Fanon Concerning Violence
Michel Foucault The Spectacle of the Scaffold
Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching
Writings from the Zen Masters
Thomas More Utopia
Michel de Montaigne On Solitude
William Shakespeare On Power
John Locke Of the Abuse of Words
Samuel Johnson Consolation in the Face of Death
Immanuel Kant An Answer to the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’
Joseph de Maistre The Executioner
Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address
Karl Marx Revolution and War
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Grand Inquisitor
William James On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
Robert Louis Stevenson An Apology for Idlers
W. E. B. Du Bois Of the Dawn of Freedom
Virginia Woolf Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
George Orwell Decline of the English Murder
John Berger Why Look at Animals?