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November 29, 2004
OCLC Top 1000 Books
OCLC has a top 1000 of books in member libraries. I'm wondering why Lucretius is the highest philosophical work at #47. There's representation by Plato, Aristotle (in spades), Lucretius, Plotinus, Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Rousseau, Mill, and Nietzsche. I didn't see any other major figures, though Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Plutarch, Bacon, and Wollstonecraft count as minor ones by most standards. I don't know if people like Machiavelli, Newton, Voltaire, Thoreau, and Marx count. I'd include some of Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois' work as philosophy, but not most of their writings. There may be others I wasn't sure if I should include, but what's more interesting is who is absent: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Hegel, the American pragmatists, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Quine, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, and Rawls. Some of those are especially surprising. Hat Tip: Crooked Timber
Posted by Jeremy at November 29, 2004 5:37 PM
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