Authored
- Alienation (Garden City: Doubleday, 1970) Doubleday Anchor (paperback) edition: 1971
- British edition (hard cover and paperback): 1971 (London: George Allen & Unwin)
- Hegel and After: Studies in Continental Philosophy Between Kant and Sartre (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975) Pitt Paperback edition: 1975
- Nietzsche (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983) Routledge Paperback ed.: 1985. Reissued 1994.
- Classical Modern Philosophers: Descartes to Kant (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984). Reissued 1994.
- The Future of Alienation (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994)
- Making Sense of Nietzsche (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995)
- Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring, with Philip Kitcher (Oxford University Press, 2004)