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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