The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War (TLS)
Books of the 1940s
- Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
- Marc Bloch: The Historian's Craft
- Fernand Braudel: The Mediterranean and the
Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
- James Burnham: The Managerial Revolution
- Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
- Albert Camus: The Outsider
- R. G. Collingwood: The Idea of History
- Erich Fromm: The Fear of Freedom
- Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno: Dialectic of
Enlightenment
- Karl Jaspers: The Perennial Scope of Philosophy
- Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon
- André Malraux: Man's Fate
- Franz Neumann: Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of
National Socialism
- George Orwell: Animal Farm
- George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-four
- Karl Polanyi: The Great Transformation
- Karl Popper: The Open Society and Its Enemies
- Paul Samuelson: Economics: An Introductory Analysis
- Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism and Humanism
- Joseph Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
- Martin Wright: Power Politics
Books of the 1950s
- Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Raymond Aron: The Opium of the Intellectuals
- Kenneth Arrow: Social Choice and Individual Values
- Roland Barthes: Mythologies
- Winston Churchill: The Second World War
- Norman Cohn: The Pursuit of the Millennium
- Milovan Djilas: The New Class: An Analysis of the
Communist System
- Mircea Eliade: Images and Symbols
- Erik Erikson: Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and
History
- Lucien Febvre: The Struggle for History
- John Kenneth Galbraith: The Affluent Society
- Erving Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- Arthur Koestler and Richard Crossman (eds): The God That
Failed: Six Studies in Communism
- Primo Levi: If This is a Man
- Claude Lévi-Strauss: A World on the Wane
- Czeslaw Milosz: The Captive Mind
- Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
- David Riesman: The Lonely Crowd
- Herbert Simon: Models of Man, Social and Rational
- C. P. Snow: The Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
- Leo Strauss: Natural Right and History
- J. L. Talmon: The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
- A. J. P. Taylor: The Struggle for Mastery in Europe
- Arnold Toynbee: A Study of History
- Karl Wittfogel: Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of
Total Power
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations
Books of the 1960s
- Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the
Banality of Evil
- Daniel Bell: The End of Ideology
- Isaiah Berlin: Four Essays on Liberty
- Albert Camus: Notebooks 1935-1951
- Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power
- Robert Dahl: Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an
American City
- Mary Douglas: Purity and Danger
- Erik Erikson: Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of
Militant Nonviolence
- Michel Foucault: Madness and Civilization: A History of
Insanity in the Age of Reason
- Milton Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom
- Alexander Gerschenkron: Economic Backwardness in
Historical Perspective
- Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks
- H. L. A. Hart: The Concept of Law
- Friedrich von Hayek: The Constitution of Liberty
- Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Carl Gustav Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie: The Peasants of Languedoc
- Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Savage Mind
- Konrad Lorenz: On Aggression
- Thomas Schelling: The Strategy of Conflict
- Fritz Stern: The Politics of Cultural Despair
- E. P. Thompson: The Making of the English Working
Class
Books of the 1970s
- Daniel Bell: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
- Isaiah Berlin: Russian Thinkers
- Ronald Dworkin: Taking Rights Seriously
- Clifford Geertz: The Interpretation of Cultures
- Albert Hirschmann: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
- Leszek Kolakowski: Main Currents of Marxism
- Hans Küng: On Being a Christian
- Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia
- John Rawls: A Theory of Justice
- Gershom Scholem: The Messianic Idea in Judaism
- Ernst Friedrich Schumacher: Small is Beautiful
- Tibor Scitovsky: The Joyless Economy
- Quentin Skinner: The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago
- Keith Thomas: Religion and the Decline of Magic
Books of the 1980s and beyond
- Raymond Aron: Memoirs
- Peter Berger: The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty
Propositions about Prosperity, Equality and Liberty
- Norberto Bobbio: The Future of Democracy
- Karl Dietrich Bracher: The Totalitarian Experience
- John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman (eds): The
New Palgrave: The World of Economics
- Ernest Gellner: Nations and Nationalism
- Vaclav Havel: Living in Truth
- Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time
- Paul Kennedy: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
- Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved
- Roger Penrose: The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning
Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
- Richard Rorty: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
- Amartya Sen: Resources, Values and Development
- Michael Walzer: Spheres of Justice
"Certain seminal works were published before the Second World War
but which have had a major influence since the war were set aside.
That list would certainly include:"
- Karl Barth: Credo
- Marc Bloch: Feudal Society
- Martin Buber: I and Thou
- Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process
- Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
- Élie Halévy: The Era of Tyrannies
- Martin Heidegger: Being and Time
- Johan Huizinga: The Waning of the Middle Ages
- Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
- Franz Kafka: The Castle
- John Maynard Keynes: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
- John Maynard Keynes: The General Theory of Unemployment
- Lewis Namier: The Structure and Politics at the Accession
of George III
- José Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses
- Karl Popper: The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
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