/lit/ - Literature

>>20859945
>VR gachas
have you been reading my outlines, anon? God, I wish I was writing it now but it's on a backlog. I have just mountains of material of autism on the internet and exacerbating it with traumatic experiences via VR is gonna turn everybody schizo.

What scares you /lit/? I'm trying to write for horror and I figured I'd ask you guys what things genuinely make you sick to your stomach with fear.

leviathan can be read in a materialist way, but hobbes did presume a kind of christian metaphysics. i actually have two effort posts related to this if you want me to dump them, and now that I think about it, I think they are at odds with each other. well, not exactly, but kinda; you'll get both sides of the argument, anyway.

>politics - aristotle
>de cive, de re publica, de officiis - cicero
>discourses on livy - machiavelli
>the spirit of the laws - montesquieu
>the social contract - rousseau
>rights of man, common sense - paine
>democracy in america - toqueville
>the human condition - arendt
>civic virtues - dagger
>republicanism - pettit
>democracy's discontent - sandel
plus definitely read pocock, as >>14370648 suggested.

>Authority - Sennett
>Economy and Society (Chapters IX - XIV) - Weber
>Elitist Theories of Sociology (The Rise and Fall of the Elites - Pareto, The Power Elite - Mill, The Ruling Class - Mosca, Political Parties - Michels)
>Selections from Prison Notebooks - Gramsci
>Discipline and Punish, Power/Knowledge - Foucault
>The Sources of Social Power (4 volumes) - Mann
>The Legitimation of Power - Beetham
>Crowds and Power - Canetti
>The Omnibus Homo Sacer - Agamben
>Communication Power - Castells
>PsychoPolitics - Han
>Politics Among Nations - Morgenthau
These i think explicitly deal with Power, but there are plenty of others that could be said to fit depending on how you define it.

Yo rapture, even if you are a big LARPer, you have a very nice library based on the pictures. I will be using it as another reference for my own reading in politics. Even if you haven't read them all, i know from matches with my own reading on various subjects that you've done you have a discerning eye.