What to Read After The Social Contract
Readers who loved The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Social Contract is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Social Contract
Two Treatises on Government
Discourse on the method for conducting one's reason well and for seeking truth in the sciences
On Liberty
The Critique of Practical Reason (Large Print Edition)
A treatise of human nature
Rights of Man
Leviathan
Reflections on the revolution in France
The second treatise of government
Utilitarianism
Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.
Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
A theory of justice
Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Ethics (Penguin Classics)
Plato Five Dialogues
Essay concerning human understanding
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics)
Nicomachean Ethics
The trial and death of Socrates
The Constitution of the United States of America