Past Masters (book series)

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Authors George Holmes, Raymond Stanley Dawson, Anthony John Patrick Kenny Books Aquinas: A Collection of Critical Essays, Hume Similar The Beatles albums, Rock music albums

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.

Publication history

Note: This list may not be complete. ISBNs given refer mainly to the paperback editions.

1980s

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.*

1990s

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.

Songs

1Day Tripper2:50
2We Can Work It Out2:16
3Paperback Writer2:19

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Contents

Publication history

1980s

1990s

Songs

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