What are the books/pieces of literature that are read/mentioned/seen in Psycho-Pass?

Question

In Psycho-Pass, not only Makishima Shogo but Shinya Kogami were reading certain pieces of literature, but this pieces of literature shaped the series in a sense.

So far what I could see in the series that they were reading is the following:

1. 1984 - George Orwell
2. A Revolution Sabotaged Before it Began - Yasumi Iwakura
3. Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
4. Holy Bible

I know they have other references and books shown in the series, I have read some of these but I'm curious about.

What are other books/pieces of literature that are read/mentioned/seen?

Answer 1

I might be missing a few referenced, but from what I can recall from skimming through the series again (in no particular order):

• Midnight Plus One by Gavin Lyall
• Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Toward a Philosophy of History by José Ortega y Gasset
• Economy and Society by Max Weber
• Various works by William Shakespeare, such as Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, and Hamlet
• Carmilla and In a Glass Darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Various William Gibson works, such as Johnny Mnemonic and the The Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive)
• Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
• Pensées (Thoughts) by Blaise Pascal
• The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
• An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham
• The Republic by Plato
• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Violence: A New Approach by Michel Wieviorka
• The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
• The Red and the Black by Stendhal
• Oathbreakers by Mercedes Lackey (in reference to the subtitle of Ep. 16)
• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Principles of Philosophy by René Descartes
• Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson by Tom Graves (in reference to the subtitle for Ep. 12)
• There are references to works of Project Itoh (Genocidal Organ?) and Kierkegaard (The Sickness Unto Death?), but no works are specifically named.

As mentioned before by others:

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• A Revolution Sabotaged Before it Began (あらかじめ裏切られた革命) by Iwakami Yasumi
• Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
• The Bible (New and Old Testament; e.g., Matthew 13:24-30, Book of Genesis)
• Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
• Justine by Marquis de Sade

Certain movies are referenced as well:

• The Man Who Stole the Sun (in Ep. 5)
• The Deer Hunter (in Ep. 11)
• Shuuji Terayama's theater drama play "Saraba, eiga yo (さらば、映画よ)."

In Psycho-Pass: The Movie:

• Peau noire, masques blancs and The Wretched of the Earth both by Frantz Fanon

Answer 2

From this AMV, some other real-life books that could be recognized on the bookshelves:

• Power/Knowledge by Michel Foucault
• Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
• The OTHER Heading by Jacques Derrida
• OF GRAMMATOLOGY by Jacques Derrida
• The ear of the other by Jacques Derrida

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The Japanese-titled books are related to farming/agricultural technology. Instead of real-life books, these are more specific to Psycho-Pass universe regarding the advancement in those technologies:

• センターピボットがもたらす農業改革[...] ([...] Agricultural Reform Caused by Center Pivot)
• [...]組み換え植物の極？を？[...] ([...] a Recombinant Plant [...])
• 最強の農業ドローンシステム (The Strongest Agricultural Drone System)
• 総合防除と生物農業の干？[...] ([...] Integrated Pest Control and Biological Agriculture)
• [...]ウィルス拡散の脅威 (Threat of [...] virus spread)
• ウカノミタマ (Uka-no-Mitama)
• 無敵の盾 (Invincible shield)
• [...]品目による自給体制のリ[...] ([...] Self-sufficiency System with Items [...])
• [...]与える農薬の影響 ([...] Influence of Pesticide Given)
• ハイパーオーツは人類を賄う (Hyper-oats Maintain Humanity)