---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 19:10:26 -0000 From: srlclark <srlclark(a)EASYNET.CO.UK> To: PHILOS-L(a)LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK Subject: Random House's 100 Random House has announced its list of 100 best non-fiction works first published in English during 1900-99 (the famous 99-year century). http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best/list.html It's an odd list. Here are the (broadly) *philosophical* works with their numbers. The top book, by way of contrast, is: 1. The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams 2. The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James 17. The Proper Study of Mankind, Isaiah Berlin 18. The Nature and Destiny of Man, Reinhold Niebuhr 23. Principia Mathematica, Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell 28. A Theory of Justice, John Rawls 32. Principia Ethica, G. E. Moore 33. Philosophy and Civilization, John Dewey 64. The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl Popper 69. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn 98. The Taming of Chance, Ian Hacking They ask for other suggestions on the website cited above.