/lit/ - Literature

>>10391586
The Hardy Boys

>>10391594
Thanks for your recommendation, I'm looking for a more political orientated selection of books though.

>>10391586
The Fountainhead, Mein Kampf and The Wealth of Nations is all you need.

Off the top of my head,
i. Leviathan by Hobbes
ii. Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Spinoza
iii. Aristotle's Politics (though you really need to read De Anima, the Metaphysics and the Physics to really grasp it)
iv.The Republic and The Laws by Plato
v. Liberalism and Social Action by John Dewey
vi. The Closed Commercial State by Fichte
vii. Elements of the Philosophy of Right by Hegel
viii. Anything by Machiavelli

also, because i feel lazy now, Locke, Paine, Burke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, De Maistre, Price, St. Aquinas, Foucault, Deleuze, Marxism in general, Gentile, Derrida, Rorty and now because i feel very lazy i am going to stop

though, you would be better served by reading works on metaphysics instead of political philosophy to be honest - most who engage in political philosophy that i have met have just staggeringly awful or uncritical baseline notions

Carl Schmitt's The Concept of the Political is a very fundamental analysis of how politics functions.

>>10391586
Use syllabi from colleges you respect and libgen

>>10391628
>Wealth of Nations
this you should actually read though

this

>>10391586
if you’re a fascist you can find a big stack of books at the bottom of the Marianas trench but you can only reach them if you jump down there alone, no scuba gear with cinder blocks fastened firmly to your ankles sieg heiling furiously for der Führer

>>10391586
what's your favorite -ism OP?

>>10391720
Rationalism

>>10391727
lmao

>>10391735
Why do you think I'm like that? I haven't given any political views yet I have been met with people calling a fascist.

>>10391735
All three of the people in that strawman, before the neckbeard, are absolute idiots. Fuck off, bourgeois.

>>10391754
hi Eliezer

>>10391735
>whatever the fuck that, lesswrong and r/atheism is
>rationalism

>>10391754
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>>10391813
>it's real
http://www.hpmor.com/notes/81/
*breathes in*

History of the Peloponnesian war - Thucydides
Leviathan - Hobbes
Reflections on the revolution in France - Burke

read those three, then come back for more recommendations if you like them.

>>10391735
>woman
>AI research
LMAO

>>10391674
>de anima, physics and metaphysics before politics

Come on, maybe nichomaqean ethics. Those three are a bit hard for starters

>>10391586
Gulag Archipelago, but only when read in the snarkiest, most sarcastic English accent possible. It’s a manual on how to grind a society into mush, by social terror and paranoia.

> ctrl-f Thomas Sowell
> Nothing

Disappointing /lit/.

"A Conflict of Visions" and "Knowledge and Decisions" are in my opinion, critical books to help broaden your understanding of political systems, economic systems, and "the ideological origins of political struggles". These two books generally do not deal with the ideas of right/wrong, justice/injustice, but rather attempt to show how our presuppositions, organizational structures, and our simple needs and wants, drive why and how we make the decisions about right/wrong and justice/injustice in the first place.

>>10393314
kys retard
>>10393432
kys retard
>>10392988
kys monarchist bootlicking faggot anime pedo

>>10393439

>>10391698
Hehe, that's right! Bash the fash!

>>10391698
>t.

>>10391586

In my experience most political books are bland and boring. I prefer to indulge in science and aesthetics and build my own. I suggest looking at complex systems.
Suggested reads: The Origin of Wealth, pic related, Big Gods, The Dictators Handbook, anthropology (text)books, political psychology (Our Political Nature, Predisposed) and so on and so on.

>>10393439
Buttblasted communist