Philosopher Kings Reading List

I am NOT the original creator of this list. I got these book titles from the Youtube video by Hint of Film titled 'Captain Fantastic: The Unofficial Reading List' that I have placed below. Hint of Film also has a couple other film analysis videos that I really liked. I liked this list for myself and wanted to put it in a place where I could See it laid out and in reach. Which is why it is here.

Apart from being a post this list will also have its own page on my blog so that should you wish to come back to this reading list or any reading list I create you will not have to dig through the blog to find it. The Link for this list's page is here: https://ybarrabookstacks.blogspot.com/p/philosopher-kings.html

"We Created Paradise Out Of Plato's Republic. Our Children Shall Be Philosopher Kings"

Above is a quote from the movie 'Captain Fantastic'. Below is a list of books that are seen, mentioned, quoted, and referenced in the movie. For anyone who has not seen 'Captain Fantastic' I personally recommend it. The movie gives us a look into the life of a family that has completely moved out into the mountains and forest of Oregon to raise their kids in what can in a way be described as a personal survivalist compound. They live off of the land without electricity or pluming. Throughout the movie we see the family hunt, climb the face of a mountain, sing and read by the fire, venture out into a town close by to sell products they have made and get mail. What is most noticeable in the film is the children's intelligence and literacy. These are displayed by conversations the family has, as well as a particular scene when their aunt questions the children's schooling and the youngest child is put up against both of the aunts children to answer questions. She then goes on to answer the questions her cousins could not even guess at, making the aunt look a bit stupid to herself  for ever even making her argument. It becomes clear that the children are assigned to read books picked out by their parents, this is their form of education and the books below are the ones seen in the movie though there are a great many stacks of books who's titles we never get to see.

'The Brothers Karamazov' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

'Guns, Germs, and Steel' - Jared Diamond

'The Fabric of The Cosmos' - Brian Greene

'Middlemarch' - George Eliot

'Marxism In Our Time'  - Isaac Deutsher

'Trotskyism and Maoism: Theory and practice in France and the United States' - A. Belden Fields

'Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the turn of the millennium' - Alter Litvin and John Keep

'Maoism In Action' - C.L. Chiou

'Three "Whys" of The Russian Revolution' - Richard Pipes 

'Fascism vs. Capitalism' - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

'Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare' - Philip Short

'Coolidge' - Amity Shlaes

'Lolita' - Vladimir Nabokov

'The Hammer and The Cross' -  Michael Scott Rohan

'The Chomsky Reader' - Noam Chomsky

'The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower' - Robert F. Barsky

'Because We Say So' - Noam Chomsky

'Who Rules the World' - Noam Chomsky

'Noam Chomsky: Class Warfare, Interviews with David Barsamian'

'Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky'

'The Joy of Sex' - Dr. Alex Comfort

'Maus' - Art Spiegelman

The U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights

'Samadhi: Personal Journeys to Spiritual Truth' - Derek Biermann

'The Holy Bible'

'Plato's 'Republic'

'The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus' - Aliki

'The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care' - Dr. Benjamin Spock