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Whose entire body of work is worth reading? - Marginal REVOLUTION

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I’d be curious to see Tyler’s “completist” list. In other words, authors whose entire body of work merits reading. If this does get a response, I’m most interested in seeing the list begin with literature. I’ll repeat my earlier mention of Geza Vermes. And to make the exercise meaningful, let’s rule out people who wrote one or two excellent books and then stopped. Adam Smith is too easy a pick. I won’t start with literature, however, but here are some choices: 1. Fernand Braudel. 2. George Orwell. Plato. Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. Hume. William James. 3. Franz Kafka, he died young. 4. T.J. Clark, historian of art and European thought. 5. J.C. D. Clark, the British historian. Let’s stop here and take stock. Many historians will make the list, because if they are good they will find it difficult to produce crap. Without research, they cannot put pen to paper, and with research a careful, thoughtful historian is likely to be interesting. With thought you could come up with a few

Ryan T. asks : I’d be curious to see Tyler’s “completist” list. In other words, authors whose entire body of work merits reading. If this does get a response, I’m most interested in seeing the list begin with literature. I’ll repeat my earlier mention of Geza Vermes . And to make the exercise meaningful, let’s rule out people who wrote one or two excellent books and then stopped. Adam Smith is too easy a pick. I won’t start with literature, however, but here are some choices: 1. Fernand Braudel. 2. George Orwell. Plato. Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. Hume. William James. 3. Franz

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