What to Read After The Social Contract and Discourses
Readers who loved The Social Contract and Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Social Contract and Discourses 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 and Discourses
Two Treatises on Government
Holy Madness
The Terror
On revolution
How societies remember
Prince
Contingency, irony, and solidarity
Power and powerlessness
Classics of moral and political theory
The Prince
Democracy and its critics
Emile or Education
One-Dimensional Man
Philosophical essays
Lord of the Flies
The second treatise of government
Rights of Man
Basic Political Writings
Enneads
A theory of justice
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Ego and His Own
Leviathan
Society must be defended