This is an update to an earlier effort to look at the most-cited philosophical books written in English on four major figures in the German tradition: Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. (The "philosophical" category is a bit harder to apply in the case of Marx, of course, since his major work concerned political economy, on which Anglophone scholars have written important studies.)
KANT
Total citations
|
Rank |
Author |
Book |
Year published |
Citations |
|
1 |
P.F. Strawson (late of Oxford) |
The Bounds of Sense |
1966 |
3220 |
|
2 |
Henry Allison (late of UC San Diego, BU, UC Davis) |
Kant’s Transcendental Idealism |
1983 |
3210 |
|
3 |
Henry Allison |
Kant’s Theory of Freedom |
1990 |
2230 |
|
4 |
Allen Wood (Indiana) |
Kant’s Ethical Thought |
1999 |
2040 |
|
5 |
Lewis White Beck (late of Rochester) |
A Commentary on Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason |
1963 |
1580 |
Citations by year
|
Rank |
Author |
Book |
Year published |
Citations per year since publication through 2023 |
|
1 |
Arthur Ripstein (Toronto) |
Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal & Political Philosophy |
2009 |
101 |
|
2 |
Allen Wood |
Kant’s Ethical Thought |
1999 |
85 |
|
3 |
Henry Allison |
Kant’s Transcendental Idealism |
1983 |
80 |
|
4 |
Henry Allison |
Kant’s Theory of Freedom |
1990 |
68 |
|
5 |
P.F. Strawson |
The Bounds of Sense |
1966 |
57 |
HEGEL
Total citations
|
Rank |
Author |
Book |
Year published |
Citations |
|
1 |
Charles Taylor (McGill, emeritus) |
Hegel |
1975 |
3330 |
|
2 |
Charles Taylor |
Hegel and Modern Society |
1979 |
1730 |
|
3 |
Robert Pippin (Chicago) |
Hegel’s Idealism |
1989 |
1430 |
|
4 |
Terry Pinkard (Georgetown) |
Hegel’s Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason |
1994 |
1310 |
|
5 |
Allen Wood (Indiana) |
Hegel’s Ethics |
1990 |
1300 |
Citations by year
|
Rank |
Author |
Book |
Year published |
Citations per year since publication through 2023 |
|
1 |
Charles Taylor |
Hegel |
1975 |
69 |
|
2 |
Robert Pippin |
Hegel’s Practical Philosophy |
2008 |
62 |
|
3 |
Frederick Neuhouser (Barnard/Columbia) |
Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory |
2009 |
51 |
|
4 |
Terry Pinkard (Georgetown) |
Hegel’s Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason |
1994 |
45 |
|
5 |
Robert Pippin |
Hegel’s Idealism |
1989 |
42 |
MARX
Total citations
|
Rank |
Author |
Book |
Year published |
Citations |
|
1 |
G.A. Cohen (late of Oxford) |
Karl Marx’s Theory of History |
1978 |
4180 |
|
2 |
Jon Elster (Columbia) |
Making Sense of Marx |
1985 |
3010 |
|
3 |
Shlomo Avineri (late of Hebrew U) |
The Social & Political Thought of Karl Marx |
1968 |
1980 |
|
4 |
David Harvey (CUNY) |
A Companion to Marx’s Capital |
2010 |
1773 |
|
5 |
Steven Lukes (NYU) |
Marxism and Morality |
1986 |
960 |
Citations by year
|
Rank |
Author |
Book |
Year published |
Citations per year since publication through 2023 |
|
1 |
David Harvey |
A Companion to Marx’s Capital |
2010 |
136 |
|
2 |
G.A. Cohen |
Karl Marx’s Theory of History |
1978 |
93 |
|
3 |
Jon Elster |
Making Sense of Marx |
1985 |
79 |
|
4 |
William Clare Roberts (McGill) |
Marx’s Inferno |
2016 |
40 |
|
5 |
Shlomo Avineri |
Social & Political Thought of Karl Marx |
1968 |
36 |
NIETZSCHE
Total citations
|
Rank |
Author |
Book |
Year first published |
Total citations |
|
1 |
Alexander Nehamas (Princeton, emeritus) |
Nietzsche: Life as Literature |
1985 |
2800 |
|
2 |
Walter Kaufmann (late of Princeton) |
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist |
1950 |
2630 |
|
3 |
Maudemarie Clark (UC Riverside) |
Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy |
1990 |
1220 |
|
4 |
Brian Leiter (Chicago) |
Nietzsche on Morality |
2002 |
1200 |
|
5 |
Arthur Danto (late of Columbia) |
Nietzsche as Philosopher |
1965 |
1020 |
Citations by year
|
Rank |
Author |
Book |
Year first published |
Citations per year since publication through 2023 |
|
1 |
Alexander Nehamas |
Nietzsche: Life as Literature |
1985 |
74 |
|
2 |
Brian Leiter |
Nietzsche on Morality |
2002 |
57 |
|
3 |
Bernard Reginster (Brown) |
The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihlism |
2006 |
47 |
|
4 |
Maudemarie Clark |
Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy |
1990 |
37 |
|
5 |
Walter Kaufmann |
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist |
1950 |
36 |
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