📚 Ontology

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with ontology on their catalogue record, first published between 1480 and 2003, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ontology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,668 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Sein und Zeit	Martin Heidegger	1927	115
L'être et le néant	Jean-Paul Sartre	1943	86
Ich und du	Martin Buber	1922	69
Σοφιστής	Plato	1863	60
Wissenschaft der Logik	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	1812	51
De ente et essentia	Thomas Aquinas	1480	36
Introduction to metaphysics	Martin Heidegger	1953	34
Totalité et Infini	Emmanuel Levinas	1899	29
Gift from the sea	Anne Morrow Lindbergh	1955	25
Art of Being	Erich Fromm	1992	17
On being and essence	Thomas Aquinas	1869	16
The pathway to reality	Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane of Cloan	1903	16
Weltalter	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling	1942	15
The great chain of being	Arthur O. Lovejoy	1936	14
Mystère de l'être	Gabriel Marcel	1900	13
The nature of existence	John McTaggart	1921	13
Ontology	Fernand van Steenberghen	1946	12
La tentation d'exister	Emil Cioran	1956	12
Sept leçons sur l'être	Jacques Maritain	1934	10
Being and some philosophers	Étienne Gilson	1949	10
Etre et l'événement	Alain Badiou	1988	9
Realms of being	George Santayana	1927	8
L' être et l'essence	Étienne Gilson	1948	8
Being and having	Gabriel Marcel	1949	8
Finite and infinite games	James P. Carse	1986	8
Knowledge of the external world	Bruce Aune	1991	8
Unfolding meaning	David Bohm	1995	8
Heidegger's Analytic	Taylor Carman	2003	8
The realm of essence	George Santayana	1927	7
The paradoxical structure of existence	Frederick D. Wilhelmsen	1973	7

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

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