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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.