* The Idea of the Modern, 1950
* Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy, 1958
* Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, 1962
* What Is Existentialism?, 1964 (editor)
* Time, Existence, and History: The Philosophical Anthropology of Karl Jaspers, 1966 (translated from the German)
* Truth is Our Passion: The Philosophy of Ernst Bloch, 1968
* The Illusion of Technique, 1978
Religious and cultural topics
* Lilies of the Field, 1962 (screenplay, based on the 1963 film)
* Death of the Soul: From Freud to Heidegger, 1986 (posthumous)
Essays and literary criticism
* The Prose Style of Samuel Johnson (1941)
* What is Literature? (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)
* The Fruits of the Spirit (1949)
* Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki (1956)
* Zen and the West (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)
* The Process of Existential Psychotherapy: A Clinical Interpretation of Existentialism and Its Relationship to Psychotherapy (1961)
* The Death of Narcissism: A New Ethics for Modern Man (1962)
* Time, Existence and History: 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)
* The Death of the Soul: From Freud to 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)