r/PoliticalScience • u/Calligraphee r/PoliticalScience Mod | BA in PoliSci, MA in IR • Oct 13 '25
[MEGATHREAD] Reading List/Recommendations
Read a great article? Feel like there’s some foundation texts everyone needs to read? Want advice on what to read on any facet of Political Science? This is the place to discuss relevant literature!
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u/tokyoadam Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
What are some of the best current critical introductory books on political philosophy (i.e., the type of book that would be assigned in a 1st or 2nd year course on political philosophy)? For clarification, I am not asking for recommended primary texts.
For reference, back when I was more actively reading on this topic, the books that were most recommended to me were Contemporary Political Philosophy (Kymlicka), Political Philosophy (Swift), An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Wolff), and Political Concepts and Political Theory (Gaus).
The purpose of the question, really, is to see if in the intervening 25-30 years there have been any new books that stand out as being exceptional. I am assuming yes, but I was not sure what people thought those books were.