The Origins of Rousseau

Closing of the American mind is written by Alan Bloom. He's kind of the left wing response to Hobbes in a sense. It's definitely like the beginning of evolutionary thinking, at least like social evolutionism. And from there, you can imagine it's just a short leap to Malthus and economic theory and then Darwin's application of that to populations of animals. There's a lot also that anticipates marks that anticipates Kant that anticipates like Rousseau, not even anticipating produces.