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• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)
• A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy (1909), by William James (Gutenberg text)
• A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), by William James (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)
• The New Idealism (New York: Macmillan, 1922), by May Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Culture Machine (1999-) (full serial archives)

• Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays (compilation of essays published in "boundary 2"; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), ed. by Paul A. Bové (page images at HathiTrust)
• À Chacun sa Quête: Essais sur les Nouveaux Visages de la Transcendance (in French; Sainte-Foy, QC: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2000), ed. by Yves Boisvert and Lawrence Olivier (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Geoff Eley and Keith Nield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (second edition, 2001), by Thomas Bridges (PDF at crvp.org)
• The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue With Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Lois Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Tobin Siebers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, by Steven Shivaro (HTML at dhalgren.com)
• Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, by Douglas Kellner (PDF at UCLA)

• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• Absolutes or Not (Springfield, MO: Global University, 2009), by David Kowalski (PDF at globalreach.org)
• Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001), by Merold Westphal (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Charmed Circle of Ideology: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Žižek (c2008), by Geoff Boucher (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, by Steven Shivaro (HTML at dhalgren.com)
• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene (WWW edition), by Arthur Kroker (HTML at archive.org)

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

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

• The Philosopher's Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gregory L. Ulmer (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• What is Philosophy? Embodiment, Signification, Reality (Melbourne: Re.press, 2014), by Jere Paul Surber (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• The Dance of Life (1923), by Havelock Ellis (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies (London et al.: Constable and Co., ca. 1922), by George Santayana (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Modern French Philosophy: A Study of the Development Since Comte, by John Alexander Gunn (Gutenberg text)
• Our Philosophy, by Muhammad Baqir Sadr, trans. by Shams Constantine Inati (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• The Spirit of Modern Philosophy (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, c1892), by Josiah Royce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion, by George Santayana (Gutenberg text)
• Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Christopher Rocco (HTML at UC Press)
• Le Origini della Filosofia Contemporanea in Italia (3 volumes in 4, in Italian; Messina: G. Principato, 1917-1923), by Giovanni Gentile (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in Radical Empiricism, by William James (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library (with selected published and unpublished works, and commentary), by Isaiah Berlin, ed. by Henry Hardy (HTML and PDF in the UK)

• Les Helviennes: ou, Lettres Provinciales Philosophiques (6th edition, 4 volumes, in French; Paris: Mequignon et Boiste, 1823), by Abbé Barruel
  • Book 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 4: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? (annotated 1784 German text and modern English translation), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Stephen Orr (HTML with commentary at github.io)
• Letters on England, by Voltaire, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Letters on the English, by Voltaire (HTML at Bartleby)
• Baron d'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France, by Max Pearson Cushing (Gutenberg text)

• History, Man, and Reason: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought (originally published 1971; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Maurice Mandelbaum (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)
• A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy (1909), by William James (Gutenberg text)
• A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), by William James (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theory is Like a Surging Sea (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Michael Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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 at Open Humanities Press)

• 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)

• History of Modern Philosophy: Descartes and His School (translated from the third and revised German edition; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887), by Kuno Fischer, ed. by Noah Porter, trans. by John P. Gordy (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Modern Philosophy: Descartes and His School (translated from the third and revised German edition; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1890), by Kuno Fischer, ed. by Noah Porter, trans. by John P. Gordy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• MANAS (with supplementary commentary; 1948-1998), ed. by Henry Geiger (full serial archives)
• Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez (in Spanish) (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.