The Greatest Books of All Time on Subjectivity

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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
2564 The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology Edmund Husserl 1936 German German
3008 Camera Lucida Roland Barthes 1980 French French
4115 For a New Novel Alain Robbe-Grillet 1963 French French
6005 Inner Experience Georges Bataille 1943 French French
6575 Phenomenology Of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1945 French French
6811 Écrits Jacques Lacan 1966 French French
8263 Ideas Edmund Husserl 1913 German German
15686 Literature And Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre French French
16763 Concluding Unscientific Postscript To Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1 Soren Kierkegaard 1846 Danish Danish
16675 Personal Knowledge Michael Polanyi 1958 British English
17159 The View From Nowhere Thomas Nagel 1986 American English
17159 The Machinic Unconscious Félix Guattari 1979 French French
17159 Essays Critical And Clinical Gilles Deleuze 1993 French French
17159 Journals And Papers Soren Kierkegaard 1839 Danish Danish
17159 Life And Words Veena Das 2006 Indian English
17159 Remaking A World Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman 2001 American English
17159 What Is Existential Anthropology? Michael D. Jackson New Zealand English
17159 Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation To Imagination Donnel B. Stern 1997 American English
16864 Ensayos I Michel de Montaigne 1580 French French
17159 Schizoanalytic Cartographies Félix Guattari 1989 French French