Oxford University Press book series
Dante by George Holmes, 1980.Past Masters is an Oxford University Press book series published from 1980. Directly inspired by Isaiah Berlin's approach to the history of ideas, the series was created by Henry Hardy in 1980, with Keith Thomas as General Editor. Its aim was to provide a brief, lively introduction to the ideas and beliefs of important thinkers from the past who have influenced the way we think today.[1] In 1995 it was expanded to form the Very Short Introductions series, in which a number of Past Masters were subsequently republished.
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 , Terrell 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 .
See also
References ^ Past Masters Oxford University Press USA. Retrieved 20 March 2015.