* The Idea of the Modern, 1950
* Irrational Man:A Study in Existential Philosophy, 1958
* Filosofi i det tjuende århundre, 1962
* Hva er eksistensialisme?, 1964 (redaktør)
* Tid, eksistens og historie:The Philosophical Anthropology of Karl Jaspers, 1966 (oversatt fra tysk)
* Truth is Our Passion:The Philosophy of Ernst Bloch, 1968
* The Illusion of Technique, 1978
Religiøse og kulturelle emner
* Lilies of the Field, 1962 (manus, basert på filmen fra 1963)
* Death of the Soul:From Freud to Heidegger, 1986 (posthumt)
Essays og litteraturkritikk
* Prosastilen til Samuel Johnson (1941)
* Hva er litteratur? (1941)
* The Modern Spirit (1946)
* The Coming Forum of Religion (1946)
* The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1947)
* Partisan Review (1948)
* The Moment of the Modern Mind:A Collection of Critical Essays (1949)
* The Failure of the Intellectuals (1949)
* Åndens frukter (1949)
* Zen Buddhism:Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki (1956)
* Zen og vesten (1956)
* The American Intellectual:A Survey (1959)
* The End of the Liberal Era:A Study of Changes in American Political Thought (1961)
* Irrational Man:A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958)
* Prosessen med eksistensiell psykoterapi:en klinisk tolkning av eksistensialisme og dens forhold til psykoterapi (1961)
* The Death of Narcissism:A New Ethics for Modern Man (1962)
* Tid, eksistens og historie:The Philosophical Anthropology of Karl Jaspers (1966)
* The Voices of Time:A Cooperative Survey of Man's Views of Time as expressed by the Sciences and by the Humanities (1966)
* Truth is Our Passion:The Philosophy of Ernst Bloch (1968)
* The Illusion of Technique (1978)
* Sjelens død:Fra Freud til Heidegger (1986)
* Death and the Life of Symbol:The Mystery of Meaning in Human Existence (1987)
* The New Humanism:A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century (1990)