Critique of Pure Reason
1781 · 784 pages
Western thought divides at this book. Kant argues that space, time, and cause belong to the mind doing the looking rather than to the world, and marks the boundary reason cannot cross.
★ 8.8
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The Nightmare
1781 · Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
An incubus squats on a sleeping woman's chest while a wild-eyed horse pushes through the curtains. It made Fuseli famous immediately.
★ 7.8
The Robbers
1781 · 472 pages
Karl Moor, disinherited by his brother's forged letter, takes a robber band into the Bohemian forests and learns that idealism under arms turns to butchery. Romantic literature has been rewriting him ever since.
★ 6.0
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
Confessions (Rousseau) · 1781
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1781
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1781
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1781
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets · 1781