Oedipus the King
Sophocles · Ancient · Tragedy
Subject guide
Knowledge
Explore 37 works associated with Knowledge in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes · Early Modern · Philosophy
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Faust, Parts One and Two
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Romantic · Drama, poetry
Meno
Plato · Ancient · Philosophy / dialogue
Gorgias
Plato · Ancient · Philosophy / dialogue
Phaedrus
Plato · Ancient · Philosophy / dialogue
Phaedo
Plato · Ancient · Philosophy / dialogue
Timaeus
Plato · Ancient · Philosophy / dialogue
Laws
Plato · Ancient · Philosophy / dialogue
Tamburlaine
Christopher Marlowe · Early Modern · Drama
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe · Early Modern · Drama
Edward II
Christopher Marlowe · Early Modern · Drama
Essays
Francis Bacon · Early Modern · Essays / philosophy
The Advancement of Learning
Francis Bacon · Early Modern · Essays / philosophy
Novum Organum
Francis Bacon · Early Modern · Essays / philosophy
New Atlantis
Francis Bacon · Early Modern · Essays / philosophy
Religio Medici
Thomas Browne · Early Modern · Essays
Urn Burial
Thomas Browne · Early Modern · Essays
The Answer to Sister Filotea
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz · Baroque / Colonial · Poetry / essay
First Dream
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz · Baroque / Colonial · Poetry / essay
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
George Berkeley · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Rameau’s Nephew
Denis Diderot · Enlightenment · Philosophy / fiction
D’Alembert’s Dream
Denis Diderot · Enlightenment · Philosophy / fiction
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot · Enlightenment · Philosophy / fiction
Principia Mathematica
Bertrand Russell · Modern · Philosophy / logic
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · Modern · Philosophy / logic
A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · Modern · Philosophy / logic
Madness and Civilization
Michel Foucault · Contemporary · Philosophy / history
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem · Postwar · Science fiction
The Cyberiad
Stanislaw Lem · Postwar · Science fiction
The Order of Things
Michel Foucault · Contemporary · Philosophy / history
Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault · Contemporary · Philosophy / history
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
Michel Foucault · Contemporary · Philosophy / history
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco · Postmodern · Historical mystery