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Books like The Hymns of the Ṛgveda

12 books with a reading profile close to The Hymns of the Ṛgveda by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, Jagdish Lal Shastri. Deep, contemplative and open-ended; a demanding read.

1

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Alonso Quijano, an elderly man from La Mancha, loses his grip on reality after consuming a constant diet of chivalric tales.
2

The Struggle for Recognition

by Axel Honneth

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

Axel Honneth constructs a social theory centered on the premise that human identity depends on successful interaction within three distinct spheres of recognition: love, rights, and solidarity.
3

The Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Also deep · philosophy, academic

Jean-Jacques Rousseau argues that political legitimacy stems from the collective agreement of individuals rather than divine right or force.
4

The Paradoxes of Art

by Alan Paskow

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

In "The Paradoxes of Art," Alan Paskow addresses the ontological status of fictional entities and why humans feel genuine emotions toward characters they know do not exist.
5

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

by Aeschylus

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Aeschylus's trilogy, the only complete surviving set of Greek tragedies, follows the house of Atreus after the Trojan War.
6

The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Dante Alighieri narrates his own passage through the three realms of the afterlife, beginning in a dark forest where the Roman poet Virgil meets him.
7

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Dante Alighieri narrates his descent through nine concentric circles of hell under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil.
8

Art as Experience

by John Dewey

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

John Dewey argues that art is not a finished object stored in a museum, but a continuous process of human interaction with the environment.
9

On Free Choice of the Will

by Augustine, Thomas Williams

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

In this dialogue, Augustine investigates the origin of evil and the mechanics of human volition.
10

Essays of three decades

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

This collection brings together sixteen of Mann’s non-fiction pieces written between 1911 and 1937, focusing on the intellectual heritage of Europe.
11

After Virtue

by Alasdair MacIntyre

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

Alasdair MacIntyre argues that contemporary moral discourse is in a state of terminal disarray because the Enlightenment project failed to provide a rational justification for objective morality.
12

The Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic

Aristotle argues that the ultimate human goal is eudaimonia, a state of flourishing achieved through living in accordance with reason.

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