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Early Modern Philosophy7 works

Inquiries into reason, experience, knowledge and human nature in early modern thought.

Thomas Hobbes in old age, with long hair and a broad lace collar, from Hollar’s etchingBacon · Hobbes · Hume — 1605–1757
East and West4 works

Literature, history and thought across Eastern and Western traditions.

Edward Granville Browne in Persian dressJones · Hammer-Purgstall · Browne — 1799–1893
The Romantic Critics4 works

Poetry, drama and the imagination in the criticism of the Romantic era.

Thomas Love Peacock at seventy-twoHazlitt · Peacock · Shelley — 1817–1840
Victorian Sages5 works

Victorian reflections on society, culture and the moral questions of a changing world.

John Stuart Mill about 1870Carlyle · Mill · Arnold — 1833–1869
The American Renaissance14 works

Nineteenth-century American literature exploring nature, individuality and society.

Benjamin Paul Blood in old ageEmerson · Thoreau · Melville · Whitman · Blood — 1841–1920
American Pragmatism3 works

Belief, truth and the practical consequences of ideas in American philosophy.

Charles Sanders PeircePeirce · James — 1877–1902