c. 385 BCE: Plato, Meno
c. 3rd century BCE: Plato, Phaedo
c. 4th century BCE: Aristotle, Metaphysics
397-400: Augustine, Confessions
1485: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
1641: Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
1677: Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics
1686: G.W. Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics
1714: G.W. Leibniz, Monadology
1781: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
1783: Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
1785: Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
1788: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
1790: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment
1807: G.W.F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit
1843: Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
1896: Friedrich Nieztsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
1921: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus
1927: Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
1953: Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics
1953: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
1954: Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology
1963: James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
1967: Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology
1969: Jacques Derrida, Dissemination
1976: Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality”
- Author Bio: Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
1977: Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind
1987: Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”
1987: Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book”
1989: Diana Fuss, Essentially Speaking
1989: Stuart Hall, “Ethnicity: Identity and Difference”
1990: Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
1990: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet
1992: Donna Haraway “Ecce Homo, Ain’t (Ar’n’t) I a Woman”
1993: Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter
1996: Stuart Hall, “Introduction: Who Needs Identity?“
1997: Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection
2002: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling
2004: Judith Butler, Undoing Gender
2004: Lee Edelman, No Future
2007: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
2010: Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter
2010: Lucas Cassidy Crawford, “Breaking Ground on a Theory of Transgender Architecture”
2010: Marilynne Robinson, Absence of Mind
2011: Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism
2011: Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure
2016: Jared Hickman, Black Prometheus
2016: Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
2017: Fred Moten, Black and Blur
2017: C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
2018: Graham Harman, Object Oriented Ontology
2018: Fred Moten, Stolen Life
2018: Fred Moten, The Universal Machine
2018: Calvin Warren, Ontological Terror
2019: Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures
2020: Zakkiyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human
2020: Frank B. Wilderson III, Afropessimism
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