📚 Modern Philosophy

Books with modern philosophy on their catalogue record, first published between 1644 and 2010, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject modern philosophy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 11,185 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Jenseits von Gut und Böse	Friedrich Nietzsche	1885	415
	Discours de la méthode	René Descartes	1644	163
	First principles	Herbert Spencer	1860	54
	Unpopular Essays	Bertrand Russell	1901	38
	Experience and nature	John Dewey	1925	38
	La libertà religiosa nel pensiero di Spinoza	Benedictus de Spinoza	1883	34
	From Aristotle to Plotinus	Thomas Vernor Smith	1934	30
	Von Hegel zu Nietzsche	Karl Löwith	1941	30
	The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays	Albert Camus	1955	30
	Philosophical studies	George Edward Moore	1922	29
	Histoire et vérité	Paul Ricœur	1955	27
	Text-book of pathology	Muir, Robert Sir	1924	26
	Wahrheit und Methode	Hans-Georg Gadamer	1960	26
	Cartesianische Meditationen	Edmund Husserl	1931	21
	A Kierkegaard anthology	Søren Kierkegaard	1936	21
	First Principles	Herbert Spencer	1867	20
	The Western Intellectual Tradition from Leonardo to Hegel	Jacob Bronowski	1960	20
	Principles of Mahomedan law	Mulla, Dinshah Fardunji Sir	1905	19
	杜威全集	John Dewey	2010	19
	The persistent problems of philosophy	Mary Whiton Calkins	1907	18
	De la création de l'ordre dans l'humanité ou Principes d'organisation politique	P.-J. Proudhon	1843	16
	The spirit of modern philosophy	Josiah Royce	1892	15
	The age of enlightenment	Isaiah Berlin	1956	15
	En torno a Galileo	José Ortega y Gasset	1958	15
	Geschichte der neuern Philosophie	Kuno Fischer	1872	14
	Essays in radical empiricism	William James	1912	14
	Précis de décomposition	Emil Cioran	1949	14
	The light of nature pursued	Abraham Tucker	1768	13
	Selections from Berkeley	George Berkeley	1879	13
	The philosophy of Kant	Immanuel Kant	1888	13

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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