By Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Banned for some time prior to the French Revolution, worshipped by Robespierre, Rousseau’s Emile advanced revolutionary ideas about how to educate a young boy. “Man was born free but everywhere was in chains” complained Rousseau. Emile’s eduction was supposed to fix all that.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. 1762.

Thomas Hobbes .

The great epic of Thomas Hobbes remains the most frightening idea (or is it ideal?) of humanity and the civilizations that it has spawned. His observations were rooted in the West, but are universally recognizable.

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. 1651.