- "Herland:A Lost Feminist Utopian Novel" (1979)
- "Islands of Truth:The Politics of Knowledge in the American and French Enlightenments" (1989)
- "Å kjenne en kvinne" (1989)
- "Katolsk intellektualisme i Frankrike:Et århundre med dialog med moderniteten" (1990)
- "The Improvement of Mankind" (1991)
- "Dagens orden" (1991)
- "The Signature of the City:Discourses of Capital from Baudelaire to Benjamin" (1992)
- "The Life and Teachings of a Country Squire" (1993)
- "The Spirit of Modern Republicanism" (1994)
- "The Challenge of Democracy:The Problem of Political Membership" (1997)
- "Diderot and the Idea of Nature:The Problem of System and the Organization of Knowledge" (2001)
- "Descent into Discourse" (2003)
- "A Little History of the World" (2005)
- "Kulturen i fransk radikal politikk, 1789-1799" (2007)
- "Against the Grain:The British Working Class and the Politics of Revolution, 1790-1848" (2011)
- "Diderot and Political Thought:The Art of Politics" (2013)