Great Books on Politics

1. Plato (427–348BC): The Republic
2. Aristotle (384–322BC): Politics
3. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527): The Prince
4. Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679): Leviathan
5. John Locke (1632–1704): Two Treatises of Government
6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778): The Social Contract
7. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831): The Phenomenology of Spirit
8. John Stuart Mill (1806–1873): On Liberty
   
9. Marx (1818–1883) & Engels (1820–1895): The Communist Manifesto
10. Max Weber (1864–1920): The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism
11. Karl Popper (1902–1994): The Open Society and Its Enemies
12. John Rawls (1921–2002): A Theory of Justice
13. Francis Fukuyama (1952- ):The Origins of Political Order, Political Order and Political Decay