Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius

by Leo Damrosch

It’s quite racily-written, very readable. Other biographies of Rousseau are very scholarly.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius

by Leo Damrosch

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Republic by Plato

Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by David Hume

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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Republic
by Plato

Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
by David Hume

Walden
by Henry David Thoreau

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Meditations on First Philosophy
by René Descartes

Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant