Past Masters is an Oxford University Press book series published from 1980. The series aims to provide a brief introduction to the ideas and beliefs of important thinkers from the past. A number of the books were subsequently republished in the Oxford Very Short Introductions series which began to replace the Past Masters series from around 1995.
Note: This list may not be complete. ISBNs given refer mainly to the paperback editions.
Aquinas, A. J. P. Kenny, 1980. ISBN 9780192875006
Burke, C. B. Macpherson, 1980. ISBN 9780192875181
Dante, George Holmes, 1980. ISBN 9780192875044
Francis Bacon, Anthony Quinton, 1980. ISBN 9780192875242
Galileo, Stillman Drake, 1980. ISBN 0192875264*
Homer, Jasper Griffin, 1980. ISBN 9780192875327
Hume, A. J. Ayer, 1980. ISBN 9780192875280
Jesus, Humphrey Carpenter, 1980. ISBN 9780192830166
Marx, Peter Singer, 1980.
Pascal, A. J. Krailsheimer, 1980. ISBN 9780192875129
Confucius, Raymond Dawson, 1981. ISBN 9780192875365
Engels, Terrel Carver, 1981.*
Machiavelli, Quentin Skinner, 1981. ISBN 9780192875174
Montaigne, Peter Burke, 1981. ISBN 9780192875228
Aristotle, Jonathan Barnes, 1982.
Berkeley, J. O. Urmson, 1982. ISBN 9780192875464
Carlyle, A. L. Le Quesne, 1982. ISBN 9780192875624
Darwin, Jonathan Howard, 1982. ISBN 9780192875563
Kant, Roger Scruton, 1982. ISBN 9780192875778*
Tolstoy, Henry Gifford, 1982. ISBN 9780192875440
Bayle, Elisabeth Labrousse, 1983. ISBN 9780192875402
Clausewitz, Michael Howard, 1983.*
Cobbett, Raymond Williams, 1983. ISBN 9780192875754
Diderot, Peter France, 1983. ISBN 9780192875501
George Eliot, Rosemary Ashton, 1983. ISBN 9780192876263
Hegel, Peter Singer, 1983.*
Muhammad, Michael Cook, 1983. ISBN 9780192876058
Plato, R. M. Hare, 1983. ISBN 9780192875853
Proust, Derwent May, 1983. ISBN 9780192876119
The Buddha, Michael Carrithers, 1983.*
Thomas More, Anthony Kenny, 1983. ISBN 9780192875730
William Morris, Peter Stansky, 1983. ISBN 9780192875716
Chaucer, George Kane, 1984. ISBN 9780192875952
Goethe, T. J. Reed, 1984. ISBN 9780192875020
Lamarck, L. J. Jordanova, 1984. ISBN 9780192875877
Leibniz, George MacDonald Ross, 1984. ISBN 9780192876201
Locke, John Dunn, 1984. ISBN 9780192875600*
Petrarch, Nicholas Mann, 1984. ISBN 9780192876102
Adam Smith, D. D. Raphael, 1985. ISBN 9780192875587
Bergson, Leszek Kołakowski, 1985. ISBN 9780192876454
Cervantes, P. E. Russell, 1985. ISBN 9780192875693
Gibbon, J. W. Burrow, 1985. ISBN 9780192875525
Mill, William Thomas, 1985. ISBN 9780192875204
Ruskin, George P. Landow, 1985. ISBN 9780192876034
Vico, Peter Burke, 1985. ISBN 9780192876188
Augustine Henry Chadwick, 1986. ISBN 9780192875341*
Shakespeare, Germaine Greer, 1986. ISBN 9780192875389*
Spinoza, Roger Scruton, 1986.*
Virgil, Jasper Griffin, 1986. ISBN 9780192876546
Descartes, Tom Sorell, 1987. ISBN 9780192876355
Malthus, Donald Winch, 1987. ISBN 9780192876522*
Montesquieu, Judith N. Shklar, 1987. ISBN 9780192876485
Kierkegaard, Patrick Gardiner, 1988.*
Wittgenstein, A. C. Grayling, 1988.*
Arnold, Stefan Collini, 1989. ISBN 9780192876607
Bentham, J. R. Dinwiddy, 1989. ISBN 9780192876225
Hobbes, Richard Tuck, 1989.*
Freud, Anthony Storr, 1989.*
Paine, Mark Philp, 1989. ISBN 9780192876669
Disraeli, John Vincent, 1990. ISBN 9780192876812
Erasmus, James McConica, 1991. ISBN 9780192875990
Paul, E. P. Sanders, 1991. ISBN 9780192876799*
Schiller, T. J. Reed, 1991. ISBN 9780192876706
Durkheim, Frank Parkin, 1992. ISBN 9780192876720
Samuel Johnson, Pat Rogers, 1993. ISBN 9780192875938
Jung, Anthony Stevens, 1994.*
Nietzsche, Michael Tanner, 1994. ISBN 9780192876805
Schopenhauer, Christopher Janaway, 1994.*
Tocqueville, Larry Siedentop, 1994. ISBN 9780192876904
Rousseau, Robert Wokler, 1995.*
Keynes, Robert Skidelsky, 1996. ISBN 9780192876898
Russell, A. C. Grayling, 1996.*
Gandhi, B. C. Parekh, 1997. ISBN 9780192876928*
Heidegger, Michael Inwood, 1997. ISBN 9780585110806*
Past Masters: German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer & Nietzsche, Roger Scruton et al., 1997.
Three Great Economists: Smith, Malthus, Keynes, Keith Thomas et al., 1997. ISBN 9780192876942
Frege, Joan Weiner, 1999. ISBN 9780192876959
*Also published as a Very Short Introduction.
