Only for non-fic anthologies/readers of particular authors' works, or that act as a foundational summation of the given field and its paradigmatic concepts or that acts as a "historical canon" for that field. This list does NOT include non-fiction anthologies/readers that are just compilations of the latest research articles in a field, especially if concerned with niche details, i.e. what I like to call a research field "update."
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Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 by Georges Bataille
Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of …
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Essential Readings in Biosemiotics by Donald Favareau (Biosemiotics, #3)
Synthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines – from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – the …
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The Freud Reader by Sigmund Freud
The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.
What to read from the vast …
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Aesthetics by Steven M. Cahn, Aaron Meskin, Sandra L. Shapshay
A revised second edition of the bestselling anthology on the major figures and themes in aesthetics and philosophy of art, …
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Ethical Theory by Russ Shafer-Landau (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies, #17)
"The second edition of Ethical Theory: An Anthology features a comprehensive collection of more than 80 essays from classic and …
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Philosophical Writings by John Duns Scotus
The philosophical writings of Duns Scotus, one of the most influential philosophers of the Later Middle Ages, are here presented …
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The Zizek Reader by Slavoj Žižek (Blackwell Readers)
"The Zizek Reader" - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides …
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A Spinoza Reader by Benedictus de Spinoza
This anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, the Ethics , in …
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Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Arthur Hyman, James J. Walsh, Thomas Williams
Thomas Williams' revision of Arthur Hyman and James J. Walsh's classic compendium of writings in the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish …
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Japanese Philosophy by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, John C. Maraldo (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture)
With Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, readers of English can now access in a single volume the richness and diversity of …
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Plato: Complete Works by Plato (The Collected Works, #1-4)
Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include …
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Analytic Philosophy by Aloysius Martinich (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies, #13)
"Featuring updates and the inclusion of nine new chapters, Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology, 2nd Edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative …
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The Hegel Reader by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Blackwell Readers)
The Hegel Reader is the most comprehensive collection of Hegel's writings currently available in English.
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The Frege Reader by Gottlob Frege
This is the first single-volume edition and translation of Frege's philosophical writings to include all of his seminal papers and …
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The Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume I by Aristotle
The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as …
