Historical and Political Thought Syllabus

Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan

John Locke
Second Treatise of Government

Niccolo Machiavelli
Selected Political Writings

Rousseau
The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism

Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in
France

Douglass
The Portable Frederick Douglass

Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America

Marx 
Selected Writings

Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals

W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk

Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Women