Give me a list of essential political books one must read
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Give me a list of essential political books one must read
the art of war
ender's game
1984
brave new world
i am america and you can too! by colbert
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley
>>7733962
Social contract
Capitalism socialism democracy
State and revolution
Reflections on the revolution in France
The Republic
>>7733962
in oder:
at least sections from aristotles politics, the social contract, leviathan, wealth of nations, two treatises of gov., communist manifesto, justice as fairness/a theory of justice
that's usually what intro classes on political theory cover too.
>>7733962
Hi,
Assuming you took a glance at Plato and Aristotle,
By Arendt :
"The Human Condition", "Between Past and Future", "On Revolution" ;
About everything by Rancière if you could find it in English ;
Leo Strauss "What Is Political Philosophy", if you got a good teacher at hand, otherwise it's a bad idea (very misleading without an extensive knowledge of philosophy) ;
"The Prince" and "Discourses on the first decade of Titus Livy" by Machiavelli, and if you can find it, what Claude Lefort says about it