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What books would be good to read if I want to study political theory?

>> No.18461224
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>> No.18461245

>>18461217
Get a 4th year or masters textbook of political theories and methodology. Politics is a decaying research programme that’s bourgeois instrumentalist. Their theories are trivial and unproductive.

It’s basically the kiddies pool full of piss.

>> No.18461305

>>18461217
carl schmitt

>> No.18461440

>>18461217
Assuming you want to learn about politics in reality versus Continental bullshit theory, there's a good intro textbook called Political Philosophies in Moral Conflict by Peter Wenz.

>> No.18461463

Some of those new gay polsci books which will tell you it's okay to turn your country into a third world dump

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>>18461217
Aristotle, but only the revised Oxford translation...
https://youtu.be/hn546b23KVE

>> No.18461516

>>18461463
Sorry but western economies will need to contract by up to 90%. It's science.

>> No.18461741 [DELETED] 

>>18461440
Sounds Jewish so you can fuck off

>> No.18463441

Political theory or political philosophy?

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i don't know how good this guide is but it seems to at least list a lot of relevant books

>> No.18463642

>>18461217
My list: https://ghostbin.co/paste/v23pch
But essentially: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Bossuet, Edmund Burke, Tocqueville, Marx & Engels, Carl Schmitt, Werner Sombart, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Julius Evola, Alasdair MacIntyre, Alain de Benoist

>> No.18463652

Why do faggots interpret reading recommendations as a call to indoctrinate people in their ideology?

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>>18463441
They're the same thing

>> No.18464764

Start with Political Ideologies by Andrew Heywood & Political Philosophy: the Essential Texts by Steven M Cahn

>> No.18464781

>>18461217
Start with Plato Republic or with one of the 3 contract theories - Hobbes, Locke Rosseau.

Or get a textbook on the subject before you go into the source material.

You can also read Machiavelli The Prince, but that is more politics and history than theory.

Also you can't go wrong with Kissinger's Diplomacy.

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>>18464781
How is Diplomacy? What did you find valuable about it?

>> No.18464892

>>18461217
the german ideology
critique of the gotha programme
that's it desu

>> No.18464909

I took a class on political philosophy once and the outline was basically as follows
>Machiavelli
>Bodin
>Hobbes
>Locke
>Rousseau
>Montesquieu
>The Federalist Papers
>Kant
>Hegel
>Tocqueville
>Mill
>Marx
>Weber
>Schmitt
>Arendt

usual liberal leaning college curriculum but he included the nazi theorist too which surprised me, in my estimation you can take out Bodin and everything after Montesquieu if you just want to start out

>> No.18466222

>>18463567
Looks just about right desu