What's a good book to get started into political science and political philosophy?
If there any politics/IR students here can you recommend a good introductory book?
I really got into politics in the past year and I want to gain a solid foundation in political theory so that I don't sound like a retard.
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Begin with The Prince
Proceed to The Art of War
Take time off and watch people in public places.
Visit "Poly Sci" section of your local li berry.
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Poli-sci you fucking idiot. It's not poly as in several sciences you god damn troglodyte
Wilson's War - great read about Woodrow Wilson the inception of international relations as it's known in its modern diplomacy based structure
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Why do you post this disgusting trash? Fuck you OP.
Sucks that you're British - you're slate of home nation positive material hasn't even existed since the 1750's, you've been our colony ever since :)
Bastiat's The Law
Read it or you will remain ignorant for life
START WITH THE GREEKS
/lit/ has arrived.
Specifically Plato's Republic, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and Aristotle's Ethics and Politics.
No you dumb leaf.
Always start with Homer.
This would be an immense waste of OPs time wtf. Give him something modern so he doesn't go fumbling into an intro level class with 0 concept about how the world actually works you poetic shill
>This would be an immense waste of OPs time
Stopped reading there. If you think Homer is a waste of time it's because you never read it to begin with.
He wants political philosophy and you recommend epic poetry?
What practical political lessons do you get from Homer? Don't deny concubines to your finest warriors or they'll throw a temper tantrum and refuse to fight for you?
>Always start with Homer.
fedora alert lol.
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Étienne de La Boétie - Discourse on Voluntary Servitude.
Unless OP is going to writing on political theories that are immensely dated -- like Politics of Authority in Renaissance france, I would rather suggest he just watch John Mearshimer YouTube videos, might have a fighting chance in getting somewhere in the field.
lol go away
>be Sup Forums
>be anti authority anti establishment
>support a billionaire pedophile rapist drumpf
>support the goldman sachs candidate
>support the Israeli shill
>pro-war, pro-torture, anti-first amendment
>big tax cut for billionaires and estate tax for criminals like himself
>all you had to do is vote your conscience, but instead you voted for a vile bigoted racist because of memes
>Now a literal fascist has his button on the nuclear codes
she looks bad in this pic
Because as the saying goes - History never repeats itself.
>Muh white aryan history.
>Ignores the first war epic that is the Ilyad.
Watch some nice tv shows instead goyim.
copy pasta from Vox Day
VOXIVERSITY
The Landmark Thucydides
America's Great Depression
Liberal Fascism
The Divine Comedy: Inferno
On the Existence of Gods
Team Calvin: Five Questions
Dissecting the Skeptics
The Non-Dilemma of Euthyphro
The Fifth Horseman
That's a good selection.
>"stopped reading there"
>blasts someone for criticizing something they didn't read
You're going to have to choose one, faggot.
I know for a fact that you're retarded for not understanding what you just did.
It's not about the value of the texts, it's about their dexterity length and their lack of modern day context.
the literal cornucopia of texts that could be read in their places, with similar lessons proscribed, in a modern setting, would be clearly more valuable.
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You've never seen her tits if you think they're fake m80. Everything else though, yeah.
Go on.
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>Speaking In certainties
>Thread about international relations and poli-sci
Muh sides
>umironically underestimating the Greeks
The joke's on you senpai.
You're overestimating OPs contextual need for texts I never once had assigned In a 4 year IR degree or my graduate degree program thus far
Im also not underestimating them, I cleary stated it has nothing to do with the inherent value of each texts, I agree they're indeed valuable and have their time in place in the realm of political discussion and their importance to the formation of political theory, just not the place to start for a beginner.
if you've actually studied IR or Poli sci you'd have a better recommendation then this
Maybe you could recommend them something from your own country, like a heroin overdose
"Umironically"
Hobbes - Leviathon, Some Rosseau is worth checking out too
L'Engrenage by Sartre.
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If you want to go to the basics.
Aristotle's Politics
Plato's Republic
Cicero's Republic
Renaissance. Machiavelli's The Prince
Modernity starts with Hobbes' Leviathan
Locke's Second treatise of civil government
Rousseau's Social.Contract
Karl Schmitt's Mmm can't remember the name of his book
Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
Engels' Origins if family, state and private property
Marx's Das Kapital
First half XX century. Lenin's works
Post second world war. Norberto Bobbio's works
Giovanni Sartori's works
End of the XX century: Michael Hardts and Toni Negri's Imperium
Now
Chomsky if you are a leftie
Zizek I guess if you are edgy
In particular a not very famous work but Valentina Pazè "In the name if the people" is a fantastic book
Fuck I forgot Antonio Gramsci's work.
Italians are pretty based when it comes to political theory desu.