/lit/ - Literature

a lot of austrian economics is pure nonsense. Some of the early contributions from Menger and Böhm-Bawerk plus Hayek's problem of knowledge are valuable, but it's all mixed up with bullshit like praxeology, gold bugs, anarcho-capitalism and nutjobs like Rothbard and Hoppe

as for modern liberal political philosophy:
The Open Society and its Enemies
Spheres of Justice
Anarchy, State and Utopia
A Theory of Justice

also you might want to check out some of Hayek's more academic works seeing as Road to Serfom was more of a political book. I hear good things about The Constitution of Liberty. Or just tackle Law, Legislation and Liberty, though it is a behemoth of a book

>>5106517

Cool. My reading took me through Hayek (just that book), Strauss, Rawls, Tocqueville, Oakeshott, etc. I'm just looking for excellent authors of diverse opinion, and a good place to start.

>>5106599
off-topic
why is it hosny and not hosni?
is it a shoop?

Political Theology, Carl Schmitt
Politics as a Vocation, Max Weber
The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
Thought and Change, Ernest Gellner
Nations and Nationalism, Ernest Gellner
The Opium of the Intellectuals, Raymond Aron

You already said Strauss so I won't recommend anything from him I guess.

>>5106630

Shitty source, but it'll do.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1363089/How-Mubarak-stitched-pinstripes-suit-did-tailor-spell-wrong.html

>>5106630

>>5106656
they only observed the error but didnt try to explain

my explanation: english gematria of "hosny mubarak" would be 888
same as joseph stalin or hermann goering

its freemason shit, and he was probably proud to be part of their secret society grid

>>5106645

Thanks very much.

If anyone could recommend something from Strauss I haven't read, I'd be grateful.

I've only read "An Introduction to Political Philosophy - Ten Essays by Leo Strauss". Good book, though. For an undergrad course entitled "Modern Political Thought".

Uhh... thanks.

>>5106476
>2024-10
>not being a post-marxist
i shiggy diggy do

>>5106765
How do I into gematria?

>>>/biz/

>>5106476


'political parties' by robert michels
'The Ruling Class ' by Gaetano Mosca
'Discourses on Livy' by Machiavelli
'Laws' by play dough
'popular government' by sir henry maine
'Politics' by aristoteles
'shooting niagara' and 'laterday pamphlets' by Carlyle
'The Revolt Against Civilization' by Lothrop Stoddard
'science, politics and gnosticism' by eric voeglin
'What is Neoreaction' by Bryce Laliberte
'The Evolution of Civilizations' and 'Tragedy & Hope' by Carroll Quigley
'Political Theology l-ll' by carl schmitt
'The imperial animal' by Lionel Tiger
'Chimpanzee Politics' by 'Frans de Waal'
'Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement' by Paul E. Gottfried
'The Social Construction of What?' by Ian Hacking
'cannibals all' by george fitzhugh
'antifragile' by nassim taleb
'the fatal conceit' by hayek
'A Farewell to Alms' by Gregory Clark
'Petrodollar Warfare' by William R. Clark
'War is a Racket' by Smedley D. Butler
'7 Frauds of Economic Policy' by Warren Mosler
'economics without illusions' by joseph heath
'23 things they dont tell you about capitalism' by ha-joon chang
'the management myth' by Matthew Stewart
'dead aid' by Dambisa Moyo
'Money' by Eric Lonergan
'Lords of Finance' by Liaquat Ahamed
'The Story of Money for Understanding Economics' by Vincent Lannoye
'The Truth in Money Book' by Theodore R Thoren
'Society Of The Spectacle' by Guy Debord
'Propaganda: The Formation of Mens Attitudes' by Jaques Ellul
'Propaganda' by Edward Bernays


it occurred to me while putting together this list that there arnt really any Romantic political works; 'theory and practice of being aesthetic as fuark', 'appreciating theory: how to discern sublime thinking', 'why beauty>truth>good: or, why to follow the beautiful, and why theres no room in the world for the uglies'.
i suppose theocracy comes close.

>>5106517
>a lot of austrian economics is pure nonsense. Some of the early contributions from Menger and Böhm-Bawerk plus Hayek's problem of knowledge are valuable, but it's all mixed up with bullshit like praxeology, gold bugs, anarcho-capitalism and nutjobs like Rothbard and Hoppe

Come back when you can actually make an arguement

I'm not familiar with political theory, but some of my better-read friends have suggested Hannah Arendt's 'On Revolution' and 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' and Piven & Cloward's 'Poor People's Movements'

>>5108860
Excellent.

A few I've read, most I've not.

This looks good. Thank you.

The idea of Romantic political works is interesting. I'd suggest perhaps somewhere between humanism and love of the wilderness.

Ehh, that's in the pure sense. My favorite professor right now speaks of sublime beauty in properly functioning humans and bodies politic. I see it sometimes. I suppose there's romance in there somewhere.

Justice, Wisdom is cold.

>>5107634
learn the Hebraic alphabet. Then learn the numerical value of each letter:

aleph=1
beth=2
gymel=3
daleth=4
hay=5
waw=6
zain=7
'het=8
teth=9
yod=10
caf=20
lamed=30
mem=40
nun=50
samekh=60
ain=70
peh=80
tzadik=90
kof=100
resh=200
shin=300
taw=400

Then learn the various way of calculating the value of a word (the most simple way being obviously adding the value of the letters that make up the word).

>>5108964

How is it in English?

>>5108978
position of letter in alphabet x 6

a = 6, b = 12 ... c = 18 etc

>>5108860
>Romantic political works

Literally Burke

>>5109429
Also people like Herder and Hamann on the continent, and other people in that tradition

drawing on Berlin's analysis of them here, obviously