The Greatest Books of All Time on Metaphysics

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
458 Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1781 German German
769 A Voyage To Arcturus David Lindsay 1920 Scottish English
1239 The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne John Donne 1952 British English
1449 Corpus Aristotelicum Aristotle -322 Greek Greek
1515 The World as Will and Idea Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
1526 A History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1945 British English
1540 Decline of the West Oswald Spengler 1918 German German
1803 The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1912 British English
2736 Philosophical Writings Novalis 1798 German German
3245 The Transcendent Unity Of Religions Frithjof Schuon 1953 French French
3290 On Being And Essence Thomas Aquinas 1256 Italian Latin
3309 The Theater and Its Double Antonin Artaud 1938 French French
3561 Insight Bernard Lonergan 1957 Canadian English
3638 Cause, Principle, And Unity Giordano Bruno 1584 Italian Italian
3638 An Outline Of Occult Science Rudolf Steiner 1910 Austrian German
3851 Fourth Mansions R. A. Lafferty 1969 American English
4686 In Search Of The Miraculous P.D. Ouspensky 1947 Russian English
4757 Claros Del Bosque María Zambrano 1977 Spanish Spanish
5852 Works Empedocles -439 Greek Ancient greek
5889 Louis Lambert Honoré de Balzac 1832 French French
6002 Nietzsche And Philosophy Gilles Deleuze 1962 French French
6002 Les Métamorphoses Du Cercle Georges Poulet 1961 Belgian French
6351 The Perennial Scope Of Philosophy Karl Jaspers 1949 German German
6514 Language, Truth, And Logic A. J. Ayer 1936 British English
6687 Le Drame De La Vie & Le Discours Aux Animaux Valère Novarina 1984 French French
6840 Other Inquisitions Jorge Luis Borges 1952 Argentinian Spanish
7215 The Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast Giordano Bruno 1584 Italian Italian
7215 Eureka Edgar Allan Poe 1848 American English
8088 Process And Reality Alfred North Whitehead 1929 British English
8259 The Poetry Of Thought George Steiner 2011 British English
8318 A Brief History Of Everything Ken Wilber 1996 American English
8508 From A Logical Point Of View Willard Van Orman Quine 1953 American English
8822 The Baphomet Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
9856 Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1817 British English
10239 A History of Philosophy Frederick Charles Copleston 1946 British English
10239 The Great Chain of Being Arthur Lovejoy 1936 American English
10278 Naming And Necessity Saul Kripke 1980 American English
10303 What Is Called Thinking? Martin Heidegger 1954 German German
10448 Why Does The World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt 2012 American English
11939 The Thought and Character of William James Ralph Barton Perry 1935 American English
12224 The Tao of Physics Fritjof Capra 1975 Austrian English
14110 Enneads Plotinus -270 Greek Greek
14212 Plato And Platonism Walter Pater 1893 British English
14829 Abhinavagupta Abhinavagupta 1016 Indian Sanskrit
14888 What Is Metaphysics? Martin Heidegger 1929 German German
14983 The Dancing Wu Li Masters Gary Zukav 1979 American English
14983 The Bounds Of Sense P. F. Strawson 1966 British English
15897 Science and the Modern World Alfred North Whitehead 1925 British English
15897 An Introduction to Metaphysics Henri Bergson 1903 French French
15897 First Principles Herbert Spencer 1862 British English
15897 The Guide for the Perplexed Moses Maimonides 1190 Jewish Arabic
15897 Works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1700 German Latin
15897 The Fundamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield -150 Unknown Sanskrit
15897 An Inquiry Into The Good Nishida Kitarō 1911 Japanese Japanese
15897 The Padārthatattvanirūpaṇam Of Raghunātha śiromaṇi Karl H. Potter 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15897 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15897 Idealism And The Endgame Of Theory F. W. J. Schelling 1800 German German
15897 Zibaldone Giacomo Leopardi 1898 Zibaldone Italian
16503 Science Of Logic G. W. F. Hegel 1812 German German
16484 The Ages Of The World F. W. J. Schelling 1815 German German
16637 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17117 Universal Consciousness alexis karpouzos 2016 Greek Unknown
17117 Evil In Modern Thought Susan Neiman 2002 American English
17117 The Philosophical Works Of Al Kindi Peter Adamson, Peter E. Pormann 2012 Unknown English
17117 The Routledge Handbook Of Panpsychism William Seager 2020 Canadian English
17117 Individuals P. F. Strawson 1959 British English
17117 Confessions Of A Philosopher Bryan Magee 1997 British English
17117 Realism And Truth Michael Devitt 1991 American English
17117 Real Materialism And Other Essays Galen Strawson 2008 British English
17117 Eastern Philosophy Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2005 British English
17117 A Short History Of Modern Philosophy Roger Scruton 1982 British English
17117 The Courtier And The Heretic Matthew Stewart 2006 American English
16828 The Crisis Of The Modern World (Guenon, Rene. Works.) René Guénon 1927 French French
16810 Revolt Against The Modern World Julius Evola 1934 Italian Italian
16939 An Autobiography RG Collingwood 1939 British English
17117 Metaphysics As A Guide To Morals Iris Murdoch 1992 British English
16932 The World As Will And Representation, Volume I Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
17026 Inquisiciones Jorge Luis Borges 1925 Argentinian Spanish
17117 Fanged Noumena Nick Land 2011 British English
16977 The World As Will And Representation, Volume Ii Arthur Schopenhauer 1844 German German
17117 Heavenly Participation Boersma, Hans 2011 Canadian English
17117 Autobiography Of A Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 2013 Russian Russian
17117 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
17117 Astrotopia Mary-Jane Rubenstein 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 Unknown English
17117 Parfit David Edmonds 2023 Unknown English
16944 Ride The Tiger Julius Evola 1961 Italian Italian
17117 Worldviews Richard DeWitt 2004 Unknown English
17117 A Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics Immanuel Kant German Unknown
17117 Fields Of Sense: A New Realist Ontology Markus Gabriel 2013 German English
17117 Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff 2009 British English