[moorobot]

Hmmm...as for taking off...definitely take off Hegel's books. His works are extremely difficult and obscure and almost no social scientists in the English speaking world are heavily influenced by him. An introduction to him by a contemporary author should be enough. (Relatedly, Rawls Theory of Justice definitely should be read in lieu of Nozick if you are only going to read one contemporary classic...It is exponentially more influential; most political theorists compare their own theory to Rawls's explicitly and do not even mention Nozick; in fact of you only read one book on political theory/philosophy period it probably should be Rawls's Theory of Justice; you simply can't understand contemporary political theory without underestanding it).