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Philosophy
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Walden
Thoreau's account of the two years and two months he spent living in a cabin he built himself beside Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, on land owned by…
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Concluding Unscientific Postscript
A long, often comic book published in 1846 under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus, as a 'postscript' many times longer than the Philosophical Fragments it follows. Its question is…
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Civil Disobedience
An essay first given as a lecture in Concord in 1848 and published in 1849 as 'Resistance to Civil Government'; the title 'Civil Disobedience' was used in a…
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The Essence of Christianity
A critique of religion published in 1841 by a former student of Hegel, and translated into English in 1854 by Marian Evans, better known as the novelist George…
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The first of Douglass's three autobiographies, published in Boston in 1845, seven years after his escape from slavery, with a preface by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter…
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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
A set of notebooks written by the young Marx in Paris in 1844 and first published in full in 1932, when they changed how many readers understood him.…
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The Fixation of Belief and How to Make Our Ideas Clear
Two essays published in Popular Science Monthly in November 1877 and January 1878 as the opening papers of his series 'Illustrations of the Logic of Science'; together they…
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Capital, Volume I
The only volume of Capital that Marx saw through the press; the second and third were edited by Engels from his drafts. It is a critique of political…
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A General View of Positivism
A programmatic book published in Paris in 1848 and later used as the opening discourse of Comte's System of Positive Polity; J. H. Bridges translated it into English…
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The Communist Manifesto
A short pamphlet written for the Communist League and published in German in London in February 1848, just before revolutions broke out across Europe. It opens by announcing…
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