From: "Ian C. Dengler" <cargan-AT-delrio.com>
Subject: Re: All's quiet on the methodological front...
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 19:18:25 -0600


Another subject: how do philosophers (and their methods) rank in
popularity? A few suggestions:

A German view of the most popular philosophers in the 18th century, by
numbers of books in the Wolfenbuettel library.  Source: Mechthild Raabe.
Leser und Lektuere im 18. J.h. Herzong Auagust Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel
1714-1799 
J.B. de Argens 19 (Chinesische Briefe, la philosophie du bonsens)
Leibniz 15
F. Bacon 15
Chr. Wolff 11
Augustine 11
Bayle 10
Montaigne 9
Spinoza 6
Voltaire 5
Pascal 5
J.B. Basedow (Praktische philosophie, various)
Cudworth 3
Hobbes 3
Gallus 3
Montesquieu 3
P. des Maiseaux 3 (on Bayle, Leibniz, Clark and Newton)
Gassendi 2
Brucker 2 (History of Philosophy, 1742/44)
Locke 2 ((De l'education)
Fenelon 2
R. Bacon 2
Sextus Empiricus 2
all others 1:
Confucius (Acta philosophorum Confucius sinarum philosophis 1687)
Bidpai (Les conseils et les maximes de Pilpay, philosophe indien. Paris
1709)
H. Conring
R. Cumberland (Natural law)
W. Wollaston (Ebauche de la religion naturelle)
s'Gravesende
H. Ernst (Moral philosophy)
F. K. Hagen (Memoriae philosophorum)
O. Heurneus (Ancient philosophy)
Hrabanus Maurus
La Rochefoucauld
de Jariges 
T. Stanley (History of philosophy)
J. Volland (History of philosophy)
J. Jonsius
Christian Kortholt (Chinese philosophy)
Lambert
La Mettrie
K.G. Ludovici (on Leibniz)
D'Alembert
W. Mechov (Phil. paraenetica)
T. Morus
T. Sagittarius (Questiones illustrium philosophicorum)
J.E. Schubert (History of logic)

I have no idea why Kant is not on this list; he doesn't make it to #one
until about the first World War, (Kayser's Buecher Lexikon 1907-1910;
1911-1914
Della Libreria Italiana 1900-1920
Humanities Index 1906-1915
Catalogue generale de la librarie francaise. 1913-1915)

He was still # 1 as of:
1990 Most Number of Mentions Cumulative Book Index, Humanities Index
1989-1990
1. Kant
2. Aristotle
3. Plato
4. Hegel
5. Nietzsche
6. Marx
7. Heidegger
8. Descartes
9. Wittgenstein
10. Husserl
11. Aquinas 
12. Hume
13. Freud
14. Rousseau
15. Sartre
16. Derrida
17. Foucault
18. Habermas
19. Leibniz
20. Spinoza
21. Russell
22. Schopenhauer
23. Benjamin
24. Ricoeur
25. Schleiermacher
26. Rawls



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> From: kenneth.mackendrick <kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca>
> To: Method-and-Theory List
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> Subject: All's quiet on the methodological front...
> Date: Friday, December 05, 1997 2:53 AM
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> I'm getting some murmurs backchannel... 
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> Are any of the theoretical mice are getting hungry....
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> or should we move over to the surrealism list for some grub....
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