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The Times Literary Supplement "Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War" List

(including sixteen "seminal works published before the Second World War but which have had a major influence since the war")

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1. The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Simone De Beauvoir
  
2. Historian's Craft
by Marc Bloch
  
3. Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II.
by Fernand Braudel
  
4. The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
by James Burnham
  
5. The Myth of Sisyphus (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Albert Camus
  
6. The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Albert Camus
  
7. The Idea of History: With Lectures 1926-1928
by R. G. Collingwood
  
8. The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics)
by Erich Fromm
  
9. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Max Horkheimer
  
10.
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 The Perennial Scope of Philosophy.
by Karl Jaspers
  
11. Darkness at Noon: A Novel
by Arthur Koestler
  
12. Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine)
by Andre Malraux
  
13. Behemoth : the Structure and Practice of National Socialism 1933-1944
by Franz Neumann
  
14. Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
  
15. 1984
by George Orwell
  
16. The Great Transformation
by Karl Polanyi
  
17. Open Society and Its Enemies, The (Routledge Classics)
by Karl Popper
  
18. Economics: The Original 1948 Edition
by Paul A. Samuelson
  
19.
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 Existentialism & Humanism
by Jean-Paul Sartre
  
20. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
by Joseph A. Schumpeter
  
21.
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 Power Politics
by Martin Wright
  
22. The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power
by Hannah Arendt
  
23. The Opium of the Intellectuals
by Raymond Aron
  
24. Social Choice and Individual Values, Second edition (Cowles Foundation Monographs Series)
by Kenneth J. Arrow
  
25. Mythologies
by Roland Barthes
  
26. Winston S. Churchill: The Second World War
by Winston Churchill
  
27. Pursuit of the Millennium
by Norman Cohn
  
28. The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System (Harvest/Hbj Book)
by Milovan Djilas
  
29. Images and Symbols
by Mircea Eliade
  
30. Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (Austen Riggs Monograph, No 4)
by Erik H. Erikson
  
31.
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 The Struggle for History (Combats pour l'Histoire)
by Lucien Febvre
  
32. The Affluent Society (Penguin Business)
by John Kenneth Galbraith
  
33.
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 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman
  
34. The God That Failed  
35. If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Primo Levi
  
36.
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 A World on The Wane
by Levi-Strauss. C.
  
37.
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 The Captive Mind (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Czeslaw Milosz
  
38. Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
  
39. The Lonely Crowd
by David Riesman
  
40.
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 Models of man : social and rational
by Herbert Alexander Simon
  
41.
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 The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
by C. P. Snow
  
42.
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 Natural Right and History
by Leo Strauss
  
43.
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 The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
by Jacob Leib Talmon
  
44. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918 (Oxford History of Modern Europe)
by Alan J. P. Taylor
  
45. A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X (Study of History)
by Arnold J. Toynbee
  
46.
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 Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power
by Karl A. Wittfogel
  
47. Philosophical Investigations: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  
48. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)
by Hannah Arendt
  
49. The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"
by Daniel Bell
  
50. Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
by Isaiah Berlin
  
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