Lists of Bests: Norwegian Book Clubs Culture Library - 100 most influential non-fiction books http://www.listsofbests.com/list/59682 Chosen by 100 Norwegian university professors in 1998 I don't speak Norwegian, so sorry for any mistakes Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:40:05 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Radical Thinkers) (Radical Thinkers) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1087120 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1087120"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1844670511.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121468364_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodor Adorno</div> The King's Mirror (Speculum Regale--Konungs Skuggsja) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5272056 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Light of Faith: The Compendium of Theology (Aquinas) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4013455 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by St. Thomas Aquinas</div> Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> Nicomachean Ethics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147409 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147409"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420926004.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131656426_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Poetics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Confessions of St. Augustine (Signet Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114791 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114791"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augustine of Hippo</div> Rabelais and His World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92159 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92159"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0253203414.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056427143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Bakhtin</div> Mythologies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8581 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8581"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374521506.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roland Barthes</div> Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206694 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206694"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1572734345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregory Bateson</div> Modernity and the Holocaust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/517702 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/517702"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0801487196.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V66849401_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zygmunt Bauman</div> The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972198 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972198"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679420169.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone De Beauvoir</div> Illuminations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24681 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24681"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805202412.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056493051_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Benjamin</div> The Two Sources of Morality and Religion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106358 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106358"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0268018359.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henri Louis Bergson</div> Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays, With an Introductory Survey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5271235 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niels Bohr</div> Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18345 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18345"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674212770.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464335_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Bourdieu</div> I and Thou http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002961 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002961"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743201337.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114558666_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Buber</div> Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4334 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4334"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839780.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund Burke</div> The Myth of Sisyphus (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82619 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82619"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182008.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Crowds and Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8568 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8568"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374518203.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elias Canetti</div> The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies (Cassirer Lectures Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2179513 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2179513"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300081154.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056429220_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernst Cassirer</div> Cicero: On Duties (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535384 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535384"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521348358.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Tullius Cicero</div> On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection (Thrift Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2302780 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2302780"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486450066.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Darwin</div> Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3649753 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3649753"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/114ef%2B-9YmL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Descartes</div> Suicide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/301476 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/301476"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684836327.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emile Durkheim</div> Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882581 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/882581"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039822.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4157 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4157"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/015679201X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mircea Eliade</div> In Praise of Folly http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3804500 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3804500"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416DMXoYUmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Desiderius Erasmus</div> The Wretched of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979564 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979564"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802141323.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frantz Fanon</div> HISTORY OF MADNESS http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/527520 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/527520"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415277019.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel Foucault</div> Pedagogy of the Oppressed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26082 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26082"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0826412769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paulo Freire</div> Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26759 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26759"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0871401185.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056502425_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sigmund Freud</div> The Interpretation Of Dreams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200863 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200863"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1566195764.01-AHYFIEJ2WTD9G._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45451576_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sigmund Freud</div> The Feminine Mystique http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10963 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10963"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393322572.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Betty Friedan</div> A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Volume I: Renaissance and Reformation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4260075 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4260075"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51e%2Brbh7u1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Egon Friedell</div> Truth And Method (Continuum Impacts) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/688925 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/688925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/082647697X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1107814749_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hans-Georg Gadamer</div> Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9359 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9359"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037575766X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Galileo</div> All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections (Continuum Impacts S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1848227 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1848227"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0826417396.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mahatma Gandhi</div> The Mismeasure of Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10869 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10869"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393314251.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Jay Gould</div> The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41536 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41536"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0262581086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139893947_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jürgen Habermas</div> A Brief History of Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15903 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15903"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553380168.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Hawking</div> Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674059 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674059"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198245971.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056424497_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. W. F. Hegel</div> Being and Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4112264 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4112264"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41L3juJo3uL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Heidegger</div> The Histories (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> On Ancient Medicine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4502431 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4502431"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MMB7KWM3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hippocrates</div> Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4986578 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4986578"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410lexr60vL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hobbes</div> Selected Essays: http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5261143 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5261143"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31gbHMJwceL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ludvig Holberg</div> Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Cultural Memory in the Present) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24433 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24433"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0804736332.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Max Horkheimer</div> A Treatise of Human Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2426292 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2426292"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0760771723.01-AYYR0ACOOOJL7._SCTHUMBZZZ_V35137313_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Hume</div> The Muqaddimah: an Introduction to History (In Three Volumes) Box set. (Bollingen Series XLIII) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4954866 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4954866"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41u6EJeKupL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ibn Khaldun</div>