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• New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (2012), by Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin, contrib. by Rosi Braidotti, Manuel De Landa, Karen Michelle Barad, and Quentin Meillassoux (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics (2008), by Sam Gillespie (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• Modern Science and Materialism (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919), by Hugh Elliot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History, by Antonio Labriola (HTML at marxists.org)
• The System of Nature: or, Laws of the Moral and Physical World, by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, trans. by H. D. Robinson (PDF files at McMaster)
• The System of Nature: or, The Laws of the Moral and Physical World, by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, trans. by Samuel Wilkinson (HTML with commentary at Freethought Archives)
• The System of Nature: or, The Laws of the Moral and Physical World, by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, trans. by Samuel Wilkinson, contrib. by Robert D. Richardson
  • Part I: Gutenberg text
  • Part II: Gutenberg text

• Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, by Joseph Priestley (page images here ay Penn)
• Man a Machine, by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, trans. by Gertrude Carman Bussey (HTML with notes at bactra.org)
• Man a Machine (with Frederick the Great's eulogy of the author; Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1912), by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, trans. by Gertrude Carman Bussey and Mary Whiton Calkins, contrib. by King of Prussia Frederick II
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Contes Cruels (in French; Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1889), by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contes Cruels (sixth edition, in French; Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1893), by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Atheist's Bible: Diderot's Éléments de Physiologie (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Caroline Warman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Screwtape Letters (c1942), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Craig's Wife: A Drama (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1926), by George Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c2016), ed. by Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway, contrib. by Ruth Mack, Jonathan Brody Kramnick, David Alvarez, Sara Landreth, Sarah Ellenzweig, Kate E. Tunstall, Joanna Stalnaker, and Vivasvan Soni
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Darwinism: Science or Philosophy? Proceedings of a Symposium Entitled "Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?" Held on the Southern Methodist University Campus in Dallas, Texas, USA, March 26-28, 1992, ed. by Jon A. Buell and Virginia Hearn (HTML at leaderu.com)

• Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), ed. by Andrea Bayer (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Idealismus und Naturalismus in der Gotischen Skulptur und Malerei (in German; Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1918), by Max Dvořák (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Claire Solomon (PDF at Ohio State)
• Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c1994), by Irene Gammel (PDF files at University of Calgary)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Defence of Idealism: Some Questions and Conclusions (London: Macmillan and Co., 1917), by May Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dynamic Idealism: An Elementary Course in the Metaphysics of Psychology, First Entered Upon in Lectures Before Students in Philosophy at the University of Michigan (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1898), by Alfred H. Lloyd
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The New Idealism (New York: Macmillan, 1922), by May Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Word (new edition; London: A. C. Fifield, 1908), by Allen Upward
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The New Word: An Open Letter Addressed to the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on the Meaning of the Word Idealist (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1910), by Allen Upward (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley (Gutenberg text)
• Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, in opposition to Sceptics and Atheists (from the 1713 and 1734 editions), by George Berkeley (HTML and PDF in Ireland)
• The Buried Temple (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alfred Sutro (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Buried Temple (London: G. Allen and Unwin Ltd., reprinted 1924), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alfred Sutro (Gutenberg text)
• A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley (Gutenberg text)
• A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (based on the Jacob Tonson edition of 1734), by George Berkeley (multiple formats in Ireland)

• Beiträge zur Philosophie des Deutschen Idealismus: Folge der Beheifte (1918-1927) (partial serial archives)

• Form and Good in Plato's Eleatic Dialogues: The Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Kenneth Dorter (HTML at UC Press)

• Idealismus und Naturalismus in der Gotischen Skulptur und Malerei (in German; Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1918), by Max Dvořák (page images at HathiTrust)

• Knowledge and Freedom: Essays in German Idealism (Melbourne: Re.press, 2015), by Dessislav Valkanov (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism (2014), by Joseph Carew (PDF at Open Humanities Press)

• The Thirteen Pragmatisms and Other Essays (originally published 1963; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Pragmatism and the Crisis of Democracy (Public policy pamphlet #12; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934), by Charles W. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metaphysics of Pragmatism (Chicago and London: Open Court Pub. Co., 1927), by Sidney Hook, contrib. by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pragmatism and Theory in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #39; London: Stevens and Sons, 1987), by P. S. Atiyah (PDF in the UK)
• Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1923), by Charles S. Peirce, ed. by Morris R. Cohen, contrib. by John Dewey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pragmatism, by D. L. Murray, contrib. by F. C. S. Schiller (Gutenberg text)
• Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1917), by John Dewey, Addison Webster Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George Herbert Mead, Boyd Henry Bode, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts, and Horace Meyer Kallen (Gutenberg text)
• Die Philosophie des Als Ob: System der Theoretischen, Praktischen und Religiösen Fiktionen der Menschheit auf Grund eines Idealistischen Positivismus, Mit Einem Anhang Über Kant und Nietzsche (7th and 8th edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1922), by Hans Vaihinger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dogmatism and Evolution: Studies in Modern Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Theodore De Laguna and Grace Andrus De Laguna (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in Radical Empiricism, by William James (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Meaning of Truth, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• The Philosophy of William James, Drawn From His Own Works (New York: Modern Library, c1925), by William James, ed. by Horace Meyer Kallen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism (2 volumes; London: J. Lane; et al., 1912), by Vernon Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Last Stand of Dialectic Materialism: A Study of Sidney Hook's Marxism (New York: Polemic Publishers, 1934), by Max Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)

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