{"id":3019,"date":"2002-11-12T11:36:54","date_gmt":"2002-11-12T11:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2002-11-12T11:36:54","modified_gmt":"2002-11-12T11:36:54","slug":"winter-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=3019","title":{"rendered":"WINTER READING"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Matt Yglesias<\/a> and Josh Chafetz<\/a> are listing some \u0091core books\u0092 for we wannabe political theorists.
\nLooking at the selections, it\u0092s hard to find fault (except in myself, in my having missed a few of the books!); I\u0092ll suggest that my bias is toward Josh, simply because I don\u0092t think you can do a good job of understanding Enlightenment thinkers without having read at least Aristotle, Aquinas, and Machievelli.
\nPlus Josh references Schumpeter and Berlin, two of my touchstone writers.
\nI\u0092ll throw a few more books onto the pile, then tomorrow or so try and boil the list down to one of my own, plus list the ones new to me that I now feel compelled to read.
\nHere are some additions:
\nDe Toqueville: The Ancien Regieme and the French Revolution. The roots of revolution are the same now as they were then; read a more-or-less contemporary account by a brilliant political thinker.
\nJurgen Habermas: The Legitimation Crisis. The self-consuming nature of legitimacy in modern society. Almost unreadable, but worth the grudging effort.
\nOrtega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses. Massification\u0085and the dissolution of intermediate social structures\u0085is one of the key social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. Here\u0092s a (florid, somewhat overblown, politically out there) seminal work in the area.
\nBerlin: The Roots of Romanticism. I\u0092ve already beaten<\/a> this one almost to death.
\n[Update for visitors from Oxblog:<\/b> I added
\nI can’t believe I forgot this one:
\nSartre’s play: Dirty Hands. An excellent examination of ideology, purity and praxis.<\/i>]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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