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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,293,342 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 464,801 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 390,069 ratings — published 1532
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,812 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.37 — 906,913 ratings — published 1946
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 229,391 ratings — published -400
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.17 — 601,809 ratings — published 2011
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,218,765 ratings — published -800
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.69 — 203,704 ratings — published 1848
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,015 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 584,019 ratings — published -500
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,071,562 ratings — published 1601
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 120,810 ratings — published 2015
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,516 ratings — published 1978
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,699 ratings — published 1949
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 65,049 ratings — published 2012
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.28 — 364,594 ratings — published 180
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,301 ratings — published -1800
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,724 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,206 ratings — published 1988
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 116,976 ratings — published 1886
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.93 — 520,950 ratings — published -800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,871 ratings — published -19
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 904,238 ratings — published 2005
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,975 ratings — published -350
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.22 — 428,888 ratings — published 2003
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,832 ratings — published 2010
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,277 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 336,194 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,291 ratings — published 1949
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 209,526 ratings — published 1321
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,099 ratings — published 2009
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 185,355 ratings — published -350
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 180,274 ratings — published 1883
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 41,906 ratings — published 1945
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,404 ratings — published 1957
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,661 ratings — published 1975
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,240 ratings — published 2004
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,482 ratings — published 2021
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,706 ratings — published 2009
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,605,483 ratings — published 1948
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 92,637 ratings — published -380
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 113,787 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,996,153 ratings — published 1960
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.00 — 76,108 ratings — published 400
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,982 ratings — published 1859
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,192 ratings — published -335
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,996 ratings — published 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 878,307 ratings — published 2008
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,929 ratings — published 1967
“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was to foster and protect the kind of values for which a philistine social order had precious little time. The modern humanities and industrial capitalism were more or less twinned at birth. To preserve a set of values and ideas under siege, you needed among other things institutions known as universities set somewhat apart from everyday social life. This remoteness meant that humane study could be lamentably ineffectual. But it also allowed the humanities to launch a critique of conventional wisdom.”
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“The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized, so long have we acceded to that marginalization--not to sound either defensive or naive. The humanities, done right, are the crucible in which our evolving notions of what it means to be fully human are put to the test; they teach us, incrementally, endlessly, not what to do, but how to be. Their method is confrontational, their domain unlimited, their "product" not truth but the reasoned search for truth, their "success" something very much like Frost's momentary stay against confusion.”
― Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
― Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
