Treatise on the Effects and Use of Bloodletting (Traité des effets et de l’usage de la saignée) – François Quesnay

Julius Evola's The Mystery of the Grail reads the medieval Grail romances as an initiatory Hyperborean mystery and…

Lunacharsky presents Marx's thought as a living guide to revolutionary action rather than a closed body of doctrine.

Agassiz's 1847 New York lectures on the orders of animals, transcribed from his blackboard talks on natural history.

Agassiz's essay shows fossil fishes occur in an ordered succession, making them reliable guides for identifying and correlating…

Lyotard's close reading of Kant's analytic of the sublime reconstructs how a subjective feeling can claim universal validity.

Raymond Aron analyzes the 1958 constitution of France's Fifth Republic and the political crisis that produced it.

Raymond Aron's study explains Clausewitz's theory of war as a political instrument and defends its philosophical depth against…

A Russian collection of essays edited by Anatoly Lunacharsky, the first Soviet Commissar of Education, exploring art and…

Beccaria's treatise argues that punishment is justified only by necessity, measuring the penal system against reason and the…

Paulo Freire's early work on education, democracy, and Brazil's transition from a closed society to an open, participatory…

Beccaria's systematic treatise on public economy treats population, agriculture, commerce, money, and taxation as an interconnected science of…

Shen Kuo's Dream Pool Essays is a Song-dynasty biji miscellany of observations, technical notes, and scholarly reflections across…