Past Masters (book series)

Dante by George Holmes, 1980.

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.^[1] 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.

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