AN IMAGE OF AFRICA

Chinua Achebe

THE FREEDOM TO BE FREE

Hannah Arendt

EICHMANN AND THE HOLOCAUST

Hannah Arendt

ONE SWALLOW DOEN NOT MAKE A SUMMER

Aristotle

MEDITATIONS

Marcus Aurelius

THE PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE

Charles Baudelaire

STEPS TOWARDS A SMALL THEORY OF THE VISIBLE

John Berger

THE NARRATIVE OF TRAJAN’S COLUMN

Italo Calvino

THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION 

Walter Benjamin

WHY LOOK AT ANIMALS

John Berger

THE EVILS OF REVOLUTION

Edmund Burke

THE FASTIDIOUS ASSASSINS

Albert Camus

THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS

Albert Camus

REFLECTIONS ON THE GUILLOTINE

Albert Camus

WE WILL ALL GO DOWN FIGHTING TO THE END

Winston Churchill

THE FIRST TEN BOOKS

Confucius

WHAT IS EXISTENCIALISM?

Simone de Beauvoir

ON NATURAL SELECTION

Charles Darwin

CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER

Thomas de Quincey

ON SOLITUDE

Michel de Montaigne

MEDITATIONS

Rene Descartes

NIGHTH WALKS

Charles Dickens

OF HUMAN FREEDOM

Epictetus

NATURE

Ralph Waldo Emerson

BEING HAPPY

Epicurus

THE CHRISTIANS AND THE FALL OF ROME

Edward Gibbon

THE PLEASURE OF HATING

William Hazlitt

THE JEWISH STATE

Theodor Herzl

CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Sigmund Freud

WHY ARE WOLVES WHITE

Sigmund Freud

THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION

Sigmund Freud

FEAR OF TREMBLING

Soren Kierkegaard

LOVE ONE’S ENEMY

Martin Luther King Jr

ANARCHIST COMMUNISM

Peter Kropotkin

DIALOGUE BETWEEN FASHION AND DEATH

Giacomo Leopardi

ON SUICIDE

David Hume

IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION:  WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?

Immanuel Kant

THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH

Soren Kierkegaard

IMPERIALISM, THE HIGHEST STAGE OF CAPITALISM

Lenin

OF THE ABUSE OF WORDS

John Locke

WOMEN SO EMPOWERED ARE DANGEROUS

Audre Lorde

ON CONSPIRACIES

Nicolo Machiavelli

THE PRINCE

Nicolo Machiavelli

WHY I AM SO WISE

Friedrich Nietzsche

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

Karl Marx

UTOPIA

Thomas More

USEFUL WORK VERSUS USELESS TOIL

William Morris

MAN ALONE WITH HIMSELF

Friederich Nietzsche

GOD IS DEAD

Friedrich Nietzsche

BUSHIDO

Inazo Nitobe

WHY I WRITE

George Orwell

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE COMMON TOAD

George Orwell

BOOKS AND CIGARETTES

George Orwell

DECLINE OF THE ENGLISH MURDER

George Orwell

COMMON SENSE

Thomas Paine

BRIEF NOTES ON THE ART AND MANNER OF ARRANGING ONE’S BOOKS

Georges Perecs

THE SYMPOSIUM

PLATO

HUMAN HAPPINESS

Blaise Pascal

DAYS OF READING

Marcel Proust

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

Jean-Jackes Rousseau

ON ART AND LIFE

John Ruskin

WHY VEGAN?

Peter Singer

THE LAMP OF MEMORY

John Ruskin

THE HORRORS AND ABSURDITIES OF RELIGION

Arthur Schopenhauer

ON THE SUFFERING OF THE WORLD

Arthur Schopenhauer

ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE

Seneca

THE INVISIBLE HAND

Adam Smith

AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS

Robert Louis Stevenson

ON LIBERTY

John Stuart Mill

CONFESSIONS OF A SINNER

Saint Augustine

THE ART OF WAR

Sun-Tzu

NATIONALISM

Rabindranath Tagore

WHERE I LIVED AND WHAT I LIVED FOR

Henry David Thoureau

A CONFESSION

Leo Tolstoy

AIN’T I A WOMAN?

Soujourner Truth

THE TAO OF NATURE

Chuang Tzu

TAO TE CHING

Lao Tzu

AN APPEAL TO THE TOILING, OPPRESSED AND EXHAUSTED PEOPLES OF EUROPE

Leo Tolstoy

CONSPICUOUS CONSUPTION 

Thorstein Veblen

WRITINGS FROM THE ZEN MASTERS

Various

THREE JAPANESE BUDIST MONKS

Various

MIRACLES AND IDOLATRY

Voltaire

THE POWER OF WORDS

Simone Weil

THE DECAY OF LYING

Oscar Wilde

A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN

Virginia Woolf

SUFFRAGATTE MANIFESTOS

HOW TO BE A STOIC

A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN

Mary Woolstonecraft