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• Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics, by C. S. Lewis (Gutenberg text)

• Thackeray: The Sentimental Cynic (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Lambert Ennis (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Irony and Clerisy (1999), ed. by Deborah Elise White (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Clyde de L. Ryals (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952), by Marvin Mudrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tennyson's Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns (1975), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1985), by Helene P. Foley (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling (Standard Novels #32; London: R. Bentley, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• The Misogynist Dinner of the American Chemical Society, Boston, August 27, 1880 (New York: Russell Bros., ca. 1880), ed. by Henry Morton (page images with commentary at scihistory.org)

• Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2013), by Don Herzog (multiple formats at Michigan)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• A Short History of Trans Misogyny (London and Brooklyn: Verso, c2024), by Jules Gill-Peterson (Epub at OAPEN)

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• Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry (New York: AMS Press, 1966), by Wilhelm Alfred Braun (Gutenberg text)
• Pesymizm, Romantyzm a Podstawy Chrześcijaństwa (2 volumes in Polish; Krakow: Drukarni "Czasu", 1915), by Marjan Zdziechowski
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Philosophy of Despair, by David Starr Jordan (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Pessimism, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
• Facing Life Fearlessly: The Pessimistic Versus the Optimistic View of Life, by Clarence Darrow (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry (Columbia University dissertation; 1905), by Wilhelm Alfred Braun (page images at HathiTrust)

• Timon of Athens: Shakespeare's Pessimistic Tragedy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Rolf Soellner, contrib. by Gary Jay Williams (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Proprieties and Vagaries: A Philosophical Thesis from Science, Horse Racing, Sexual Customs, Religion, and Politics (originally published 1961; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Albert L. Hammond (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)
• The Reason, the Understanding, the Time (originally published 1961; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Reflections on Human Nature (originally published 1961; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Philosophical Salon: Speculations, Reflections, Interventions (London: Open Humanities Press, 2017), ed. by Michael Marder and Patricia I. Vieira (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• What is Philosophy? Embodiment, Signification, Reality (Melbourne: Re.press, 2014), by Jere Paul Surber (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• Negations: Essays in Critical Theory (London: MayFlyBooks, 2009), by Herbert Marcuse, trans. by Jeremy J. Shapiro (PDF at monoskop.org)
• Logical and Spiritual Reflections (c2008), by Avi Sion (HTML at thelogician.net)
• The Philosophic Principles of Rational Being (2007), by Roger Ellman (PDF files with commentary at the-origin.org)
• On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), by Kenneth Burke, ed. by William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays (c1999), by Isaiah Berlin, ed. by Henry Hardy, contrib. by Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (PDF files in the UK)
• Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (32 volumes (omits 33rd index volume); Toronto: University of Toronto Press; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963-1991), by John Stuart Mill, ed. by John M. Robson (at oll.libertyfund.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Reading Hegel: The Introductions (2008), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ed. by Aakash Singh and Rimina Mohapatra (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• Plato's Euthydemus: Analysis of What Is and Is Not Philosophy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Thomas H. Chance (HTML at UC Press)
• The Philosophical Works of Descartes (2 volumes; New York: Dover Publications, c1955), by René Descartes, trans. by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane and G. R. T. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Philosophy of Human Nature (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1953), by George P. Klubertanz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking (2008), ed. by Paul Ashton, Toula Nicolacopoulos, and George Vassilacopoulos (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• Franciscan Institute Publications (full serial archives)
• Dark Deleuze (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), by Andrew Culp (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Reproduced From the Edition of 1661, With a Bibliographical Note (Facsimile Text Society series 3 v6; New York: Columbia University Press, 1931), by Joseph Glanvill, contrib. by Moody E. Prior (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics (2008), by Sam Gillespie (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• Philosophy and the Social Problem (second edition; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928), by Will Durant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Numinous Subjects: Engendering the Sacred in Western Culture, An Essay (2007), by Lucy Tatman (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1926), by Will Durant
  • 6th printing: page images at HathiTrust
  • 14th printing: multiple formats at archive.org
• Characteristics, by Thomas Carlyle (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures (Cincinnati: Office American Israelite and Deborah, 1876), by Isaac Mayer Wise (PDF at americanjewisharchives.org)
• 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)
• Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas (London: Grant Richards, 1922), by Remy de Gourmont, trans. by William Aspenwall Bradley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Dialogues of Plato, Translated Into English with Analyses and Introductions (third edition, 5 volumes; Oxford University Press, 1892), by Plato, ed. by Benjamin Jowett (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• The Discovery of the Future (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1913), by H. G. Wells
  • Gutenberg text and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Discovery of the Future: A Discourse Delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902 (London: T. F. Unwin, 1902), by H. G. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Elements of Intellectual Philosophy, by Hubbard Winslow (page images at MOA)
• An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being an Argument in Favour of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind; To Which Are Added Some Remarks on the Systems of Hartley and Helvetius (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1805), by William Hazlitt
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Essays on Philosophical Subjects, by the Late Adam Smith, LL.D., Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, &c., &c.; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1795), by Adam Smith, ed. by James Hutton and Joseph Black, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fichtes Werke (6 volumes in German; Leipzig: F. Meiner, ca. 1911-1912), by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, ed. by Fritz Medicus (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes (Harvard Classics v34; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1910), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by René Descartes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, and Thomas Hobbes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Gift of Fire, by Richard Mitchell (with other works by the author: multiple formats in Australia)
• An Introduction to Philosophy (New York and London: MacMillan, 1915), by George Stuart Fullerton (Gutenberg text)
• Introduction to Philosophy: An Inquiry After a Rational System of Scientific Principles in Their Relation to Ultimate Reality (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by George Trumbull Ladd
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Le Monde Comme Volonté et Comme Représentation (2 volumes in French; Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus; et al., n.d.), by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by J. A. Cantacuzène
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 1 (bound with another work): multiple formats at archive.org
• L'Énergie Spirituelle: Essais et Conférences (7th edition, in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1922), by Henri Bergson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Reason, by George Santayana (Gutenberg text)
• Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays (reprint of the 1917 edition), by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Based on the Doctrine of Evolution (London: Macmillan and Co., 1874), by John Fiske
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• Philosophical Studies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1905), by David G. Ritchie, ed. by Robert Latta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophy and the Social Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Will Durant
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Philosophy as Absolute Science, Founded in the Universal Laws of Being, and Including Ontology, Theology, and Psychology Made One, as Spirit, Soul, and Body (only 1 volume published; Boston: Walker, Wise, and Co., 1864), by Ephraim L. Frothingham and Arthur L. Frothingham
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• 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)
• Plato the Teacher: Being Selections from the Apology, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Symposium, Phaedrus, Republic, and Phaedo of Plato (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Plato, ed. by William Lowe Bryan and Charlotte Lowe Bryan, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (London, 1692), by Anne Conway (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Promenades Philosophiques: Deuxième Serie (8th edition, in French; Paris: Mercure de France, 1920), by Remy de Gourmont (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Promenades Philosophiques: Troisième Serie (7th edition, in French; Paris: Mercure de France, 1921), by Remy de Gourmont (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reconstruction in Philosophy (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920), by John Dewey
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Scepsis Scientifica: or, The Vanity of Dogmatizing (based on multiple early editions, with modernized spelling), by Joseph Glanvill (multiple formats with commentary at exclassics.com)
• The Sciences of Nature Versus the Science of Man, by Noah Porter (page images at MOA)
• Selections from the Principles of Philosophy, by René Descartes, trans. by John Veitch (Gutenberg text)
• Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard, by Søren Kierkegaard, trans. by Lee M. Hollander (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Søren Kierkegaards Samlede Vaerker (14 volumes in Danish; Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1901-1906), by Søren Kierkegaard, ed. by A. B. Drachmann, J. L. Heiberg, and H. O. Lange
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV: multiple formats at archive.org
• Talks With Socrates About Life: Translations From the Gorgias and Republic of Platro (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1887), by Plato, trans. by Ellen Francis Mason (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Treasure of the Humble (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., n.d.), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alfred Sutro, contrib. by Arthur Bingham Walkley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist; Eternal Recurrence; Notes to Zarathustra (from a set of Nietzsche's complete works; 1911), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Anthony M. Ludovici (page images at HathiTrust)
• Understanding Reality: A Commonsense Theory of the Original Cause (without appendices), by Stefan Hlatky and Philip Booth (HTML with commentary in the UK)
• The Wisdom and Religion of a German Philosopher: Being Selections From the Writings of G. W. F. Hegel (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1897), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ed. by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images in Hong Kong
  • page images at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The World as Will and Idea (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., ca.1909), by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by Richard Burdon Haldane and John Kemp
  • Volume I (7th ed.): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (6th ed.): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (6th ed.): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Philosophy of Man (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., c1948), by Henri Renard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historied Thought, Constructed World: A Conceptual Primer for the Turn of the Millennium (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Joseph Margolis (HTML at UC Press)
• Kantstudien: Ergänzunshefte (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen (fourth edition, in German; Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1895), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen (in German; Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Anselm of Canterbury, by Saint Anselm, trans. by Jasper Hopkins and Herbert Richardson (PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Diderot's Early Philosophical Works (Chicago and London: Open Court Pub. Co., 1916), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Margaret Jourdain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Elements of Logic: Together With an Introductory View of Philosophy in General, and a Preliminary View of the Reason (New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1844), by Henry Philip Tappan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Elements of Logic: Together With an Introductory View of Philosophy in General, and a Preliminary View of the Reason (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1856), by Henry Philip Tappan (page images at MOA)
• The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1910), by John Dewey
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Range of Reason, by Jacques Maritain (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Religion: A Dialogue, Etc., by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
• Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Thomas Common (Gutenberg text)
• The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring (11 volumes in 22; Edinburgh: W. Tait; et al., 1838-1843), by Jeremy Bentham, ed. by John Bowring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic, by Benedetto Croce, trans. by Douglas Ainslie (Gutenberg text)
• The Amateur Philosopher (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), by Carl H. Grabo
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science, by Friedrich Engels, trans. by Emile Burns (HTML at marxists.org)
• Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (library edition, 3 vollumes; London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1891), by Herbert Spencer
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Father Payne (1915), by Arthur Christopher Benson (Gutenberg text)
• Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1865), by Herbert Spencer (Gutenberg text)
• Plato ein Vorgänger Kants? Kritische Bemerkungen zu P. Natorps "Platos Ideenlehre: Eine Einführung in den Idealismus" (extract from Königliches Gymnasium zu Rössel: Bericht Über das Schuljahr, in German; Reszel: B. Kruttke, 1906), by Ernst Hohmann
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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