📚 Philosophy

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The questions that do not go away — what is real, what is right, what can we know — argued in public for 2,500 years.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject philosophy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	1626	643
De rerum natura	Titus Lucretius Carus	1486	537
Jenseits von Gut und Böse	Friedrich Nietzsche	1885	415
Der Antichrist	Friedrich Nietzsche	1895	385
Συμπόσιον	Plato	1559	351
The Problems of Philosophy	Bertrand Russell	1900	288
Tractatus logico-philosophicus	Ludwig Wittgenstein	1921	212
Democracy and Education	John Dewey	1916	184
Discours de la méthode	René Descartes	1644	163
The Story of Philosophy	Will Durant	1926	150
State and Revolution	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	1900	132
The Kybalion	Three Initiates	1912	122
A Study of History	Arnold J. Toynbee	1900	120
The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides	Moses Maimonides	1473	116
Sein und Zeit	Martin Heidegger	1927	115
The Art of Loving	Erich Fromm	1956	107
Plato and Platonism	Walter Pater	1893	97
Physics	Aristotle	1472	88
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung	Arthur Schopenhauer	1819	82
The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)	Karl Popper	1945	76
Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	2006	73
Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους	Plato	1834	72
Misère de la philosophie	Karl Marx	1847	71
Philosophy and living	Olaf Stapledon	1935	67
The Nature of the Physical World	Arthur Stanley Eddington	1928	57
First principles	Herbert Spencer	1860	54
What is history?	Edward Hallet Carr	1961	53
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions	Thomas S. Kuhn	1955	47
Chto takoe iskusstvo? / What is art?	Лев Толстой	1898	44
The Human Condition	Hannah Arendt	1958	42

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 29 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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