1. Plato's Republic; 2. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics; 3. Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy; 4. Hobbes's Leviathan; 5. Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding; 6. Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge; 7. Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; 8. Rousseau's Social Contract; 9. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason; 10. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit; 11. Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation. 12. Marx's Communist Manifesto; 13. Mill's Utilitarianism; 14. Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra; 15. James's Pragmatism; 16. Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; 17. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic; 18. Sartre's Being and Nothingness; 19. de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; 20. Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
James Garvey is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and Secretary of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. He is co-author, with Jeremy Stangroom, of The Great Philosophers (Arcturus, 2005).
"James Garvey's lucid, elegant and insightful book should be read
by anybody who wants to know how the great books of philosophy have
shaped the history of the discipline." --Sanford Lakoff
"[Garvey's] distillations are master classes in concisions, clarity
and accuracy. He doesn't make it all look easy, just no more
difficult than it need be, which is more than can be said of many
of the original authors under discussion...For prospective students
and complete beginners, the book is an excellent introduction to
the kind of texts they are going to have to tackle directly sooner
or later....Garvey seems to understand more deeply, write better
and explain more clearly than anyone else."--Sanford Lakoff
"Any collection strong in philosophy, especially at the
introductory and high school level, should have a copy of "The
Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books "on the shelf: it covers the works
of Descartes, Hobbes, Plato, Sartre and others and reviews the
major points of these philosophers, surveying their works,
thinking, and influence on fellow philosophers and the course of
the genre as a whole. A top pick for any beginner who would build a
definitive foundation of philosophy titles."- "California
Bookwatch"--Sanford Lakoff
Garvey's Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books cuts through the musty
mystique of such great thinkers as Plato, Descartes and Kant, and
explains some of the thinking behind their great books. He suggests
philosophers are fun people prone to being arrested, poisoned,
exiled or ending up running for their lives just because of what
they think. His discussions are fresh and appealing, and his chosen
books are resonant with relevance.' South China Morning Post,
January 2007
"Anycollection strong in philosophy, especially at the introductory
and high schoollevel, should have a copy of "The TwentyGreatest
Philosophy Books "on the shelf: it covers the works of Descartes,
Hobbes, Plato, Sartre and others and reviews the major points of
thesephilosophers, surveying their works, thinking, and influence
on fellowphilosophers and the course of the genre as a whole. A top
pick for anybeginner who would build a definitive foundation of
philosophy titles."- "California Bookwatch"--,
To come from Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, Anthony O'Hear
(Director, Royal Institute of Philosophy), Ted Honderich, Tim Crane
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