The Greatest Books of All Time on Ontology

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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
517 Being and Time Martin Heidegger 1927 German German
2510 Metaphysics Aristotle -347 Greek Ancient greek
3290 On Being And Essence Thomas Aquinas 1256 Italian Latin
4864 What Is Cinema? André Bazin 1967 French French
6005 Nietzsche And Philosophy Gilles Deleuze 1962 French French
8089 Process And Reality Alfred North Whitehead 1929 British English
8263 Ideas Edmund Husserl 1913 German German
8512 From A Logical Point Of View Willard Van Orman Quine 1953 American English
8557 Word And Object Willard Van Orman Quine 1960 American English
10246 The Great Chain of Being Arthur Lovejoy 1936 American English
10309 What Is Called Thinking? Martin Heidegger 1954 German German
14890 What Is Metaphysics? Martin Heidegger 1929 German German
15916 The Fundamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield -150 Unknown Sanskrit
15916 The Padārthatattvanirūpaṇam Of Raghunātha śiromaṇi Karl H. Potter 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15916 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15916 The Apriori Foundations Of The Civil Law Adolf Reinach 1913 German German
15916 The Literary Work Of Art Roman Ingarden 1931 Polish German
16520 Science Of Logic G. W. F. Hegel 1812 German German
17164 The Routledge Handbook Of Panpsychism William Seager 2020 Canadian English
17164 Individuals P. F. Strawson 1959 British English
17164 Realism And Truth Michael Devitt 1991 American English
17164 Historied Thought, Constructed World Joseph Margolis 1995 American English
17164 Real Materialism And Other Essays Galen Strawson 2008 British English
17041 The Visible And The Invisible Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1964 French French
17164 Fanged Noumena Nick Land 2011 British English
17164 Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
17164 Fields Of Sense: A New Realist Ontology Markus Gabriel 2013 German English
17164 Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff 2009 British English