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• Der Genussmensch: Ein Cicerone im Rücksichtlosen Lebensgenuss (in German; Munich: Hyperion, 1920), by Willem van Wulfen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Verhältnis der Eudemischen zur Nikomachischen Ethik (dissertation in German; 1912), by Ernst Kapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• Morality and Utility (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Jan Narveson (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Fragment on Government, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at McMaster)
• Utilitarianism (seventh edition; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1879), by John Stuart Mill (Gutenberg text)
• Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1881), by Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (PDF at McMaster)
• An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, by Jeremy Bentham
  • HTML at Texas
  • PDF at McMaster
• 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)

• Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• The English Utilitarians, by Leslie Stephen
  • volume 1: HTML at McMaster
  • volume 2: HTML at McMaster
  • volume 3: HTML at McMaster

• A History of the British Secular Movement, by John Edwin McGee (HTML at infidels.org)

• Philebus, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Beyond the Pleasure Principle (translated from the 2nd German edition; London and Vienna: The International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1922), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by C. J. M. Hubback
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Der Genussmensch: Ein Cicerone im Rücksichtlosen Lebensgenuss (in German; Munich: Hyperion, 1920), by Willem van Wulfen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jenseits des Lustprinzips (in German; 1921), by Sigmund Freud (Gutenberg text)
• The Pleasures of Life (longer edition, from 1890 or later), by John Lubbock (Gutenberg text)
• The Pleasures of Life (shorter version than later editions; New York: John Alden, 1887), by John Lubbock (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• The Problem of Pain (c1940), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Pain: Its Origin, Conduction, Perception and Diagnostic Significance (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1921), by Richard J. Behan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Translational Pain Research: From Mouse to Man (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2010), ed. by Lawrence Kruger and Alan R. Light (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Translational Pain Research: From Mouse to Man (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2010), ed. by Lawrence Kruger and Alan R. Light (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• The Journal of Headache and Pain (most articles open access, and all open access from 2011-) (partial serial archives)

• The Journal of Headache and Pain (most articles open access, and all open access from 2011-) (partial serial archives)

• Pain Physician (issues online 1999-) (partial serial archives)

• Pain Physician (issues online 1999-) (partial serial archives)

• The Patient's Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, by Bruce F. Campbell, contrib. by Charles W. Lapp (HTML with commentary at cfidsselfhelp.org)

• Sexual Ecstasy From Ancient Wisdom, by Summum Bonum Amen Ra (zipped HTML at sexualecstasy.org)

• The Assembly of Gods, ed. by Jane Chance (HTML at metseditions.org)

• Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (Punctum Books, c2017), ed. by Noreen Giffney and Eve Watson
  • PDF with commentary at punctumbooks.com
  • PDF files with commentary at Project Muse
• Love and Power: The Psychology of Interpersonal Creativity (1966), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)
• The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1994), by Teresa De Lauretis (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Power of Sexual Surrender (New York: New American Library, 1962), by Marie Nyswander Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Socioeconomic Determinants of Fertility Behavior in Developing Nations: Theory and Initial Results (1982), by Barbara Entwisle (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Nature of Civilization: A Psychological Analysis (1977), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)
• Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Ina Linge (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Mental Traits of Sex: An Experimental Investigation of the Normal Mind in Men and Women, by Helen Thompson Woolley (HTML at York)
• Psychoanalysis of Freud and Adler, or Sex-Determinism and Character-Formation (dissertation; 1922), by F. C. Sumner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sex and Love, by Francesco Alberoni (PDF at alberoni.it)
• Disguises of Love: Psycho-Analytical Sketches (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Stekel, trans. by Rosalie Gabler
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Homo-Sexual Life (Little Blue Book #692; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., c1925), by William J. Fielding (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1916), by C. G. Jung, trans. by Beatrice M. Hinkle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Movies, Delinquency, and Crime (New York: Macmillan, 1933), by Herbert Blumer and Philip M. Hauser
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Geschlecht und Charakter: Eine Prinzipielle Untersuchung (in German; Vienna and Leipzig: W. Braumuller, 1903), by Otto Weininger
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images in Austria
• Geschlecht und Charakter: Eine Prinzipielle Untersuchung (11th edition, in German; Vienna and Leipzig: W. Braumuller, 1909), by Otto Weininger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Pol i Kharakter: Teoreticheskoe Izsli︠e︡dovanīe (Sex and Character translated into Russian; St. Petersburg: Kn-vo Posiev, 1909), by Otto Weininger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sex and Character, by Otto Weininger (PDF and partial HTML with commentary at theabsolute.net)
• Sex and Character (authorized translation from the sixth German edition; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906), by Otto Weininger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Theory of Psychoanalysis (New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co., 1915), by C. G. Jung
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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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