Branches of knowledge
The corpus arranged by field: each branch gathers the catalogue authors that belong to it. One entry can sit in several branches — Aristotle is politics, rhetoric, aesthetics and science at once — because these are tags, not drawers.
Politics, power and strategyFrom Plato's Republic to The State and Revolution: the whole theory of power, critics included — anarchists, socialists and conservatives alike.Psychology and social sciencesFrom the founders of scientific psychology to the fathers of sociology: James, Freud in the German originals, Durkheim in French, Weber, Simmel and Comte.Rhetoric, letters and memoirsThe art of speaking and the art of telling one's life: Aristotle's Rhetoric, Cicero the orator, Seneca's letters and the confessions of Augustine, Teresa of Ávila and Tolstoy.Mythology, legends and folkloreFrom Hesiod's gods to the Norse Edda, from Gilgamesh to the Popol Vuh: the founding narratives of cultures, in primary sources.Economics and social thoughtFrom Adam Smith to Rosa Luxemburg: value, labour, property and crises, explained by the classics that set the terms of the debate.Art, aesthetics and cultural theoryWhat beauty is and why it matters: from the Poetics and the Critique of Judgement to Hegel's aesthetics and Tolstoy's What Is Art?History of scienceHow knowledge was won: Aristotle's biology, Lucretius' atomism, Bacon's method and Darwin's revolution.