/politics/ Book Club (4)

1 Name: Citizen : 2008-12-01 04:17 ID:8FAepc/C

Would any of you be interested in reading and discussing a political work?

Following are a few suggestions of mine, please do post your own and second ones that appeal to you, and if enough people bite we'll get a consensus and start arranging things.

The Republic by Plato
Politics by Aristotle
The Defender of Peace by Marsilius of Padua
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Second Treatise by John Locke
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Capital by Karl Marx

2 Name: Citizen : 2008-12-01 15:28 ID:W4eNxh/I

The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Manual of Political Economy by Vilfredo Pareto
A Critique of Interventionism by Ludwig von Mises
The Elements of International Law by George B. Davis

3 Name: Kyoumo Unko!bKaGbR8Ka. : 2009-09-02 18:12 ID:NlLRfiqc

Politics as a Vocation by Max Weber
Chinese classics
Japanese classics

I want to read The Republic and The Laws by Plato.

4 Name: im not a neocon i swear : 2009-09-05 16:28 ID:w2eya6mY

I'm interested in reading up on the works of Leo Strauss, can anyone recommend a specific introductory work?

Having read The Republic recently, I'm looking at maybe The City and Man.

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