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Columbia Core: Contemporary Civilization
20 books, 3,654,111 words, in reading order.
Books in this course
243.6 h read
The Republic
Plato
c. 380 BC
The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
c. 340 BC
The King James Version of the Bible
Anonymous
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo
397 AD
Summa Theologica, Part I
Thomas Aquinas
1274
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
1532
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
1651
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1: MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2
Locke, John
1704
Second Treatise of Government
Locke, John
1704
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Hume, David
1776
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1762
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
1776
The Critique of Pure Reason
Kant, Immanuel
1804
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
1788
On Liberty
Mill, John Stuart
1873
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
1848
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
1886
The Genealogy of Morals: The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
1900
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
1899
The Souls of Black Folk
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
1963