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1 Baumgold, Deborah. 2010. Contract Theory in Historical Context: Essays on Grotius, Hobbes and Locke. Leiden: Brill. (A nice overview of contract theory).

2 Gay, Peter 1996. The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. New York: Norton, rev. ed. (Still perhaps the best overview).

3 Israel, Jonathan I. 2001. Radical Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Excellent on Descartes, Spinoza, and the early pre-Kantian Enlightenment).

4 Kuehn, Manfred 2001. Kant: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (An exceptionally good biography that also introduces Kant’s theory and situates it in the Age of Enlightenment.)

5 Reisman, David A.1976. Adam Smith’s Sociological Economics. London: Croom Helm. (An excellent study showing how the sociological and economic dimensions of Smith’s work are intertwined).

6 Schmidt, James(ed.) 1996. What Is Enlightenment? Eighteenth Century Answers and Twentieth Century Questions. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Situates Kant in relation to several contemporaries asking similar questions and also shows why those remain current questions today.)

7 Shklar, Judith 1969. Men and Citizens: A Study of Rousseau’s Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Still one of the best accounts.)

8 Winch, Donald 1978. Adam Smith’s Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (A broader study than the title implies, contesting narrow readings of Smith as “just” an economist.)