Most cited Anglophone books on Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche

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