My ideal library:
- The complete works of Heidegger (the German version has been out for a while, there hasn’t been a standard English version yet…especially since not all have been translated)
- Same with Nietzsche
- Complete works of Kierkegaard. i guess i’d go for the English standard translation as i don’t know Dutch very well (i.e. at all).
- At least Church Dogmatics, unabridged, by Karl Barth (all 5 volumes with all the various parts). i’m not sure if i’d want/need any other of Barth’s works, nor am i sure that i want the English standard translation or the original German.
- Aquinas’s Summa Theologicae, parallel Latin and English version.
- Tillich’s Systematic Theology (wow, something in English!)
- Kant’s three Critiques (Pure Reason, Practical Reason, Judgement), plus the Prolegomena. English translation (i don’t think there’s a standard translation, but i’d be partial to Kemp-Smith’s translation).
- Various French philosophers (Badiou, Derrida, Deleuze, and Foucault) major works.
- Major works of Wittgenstein (Brown Book, Blue Book, Tractatus, etc)
- Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Logic
- Various major works of the Greeks (Plato, Aristotle, Socrates) and Pre-Socratics
- Various other works (Zizek, MacIntyre, Plantinga, etc)
- Whatever else i forgot to mention
Of course, for it to be the ideal library, i will have read all of those as well.
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