Does anyone know where to find a good political theory discussion forum?

[rch35]

there doesnt seem to be a place for theory specifically here.

[WheelWalker]

1. What'cha got in mind?

[Fovea]

2. Durkheim? Marx? Strauss?

Phillips? Arendt?

Play em if ya got em.

[rch35]

3. I've been reading Hobbes and Emma Goldman

so thats whats fresh in my mind

nobody wants to admit to supporting Hobbes but our world is scarily close to what he proposes, when you cipher through it

[But....]

4. No likes to admit....

anything, makes it too easy to attack them:eyes:

[Fovea]

5. Hobbes and Rousseau

stand on equally wrong, diametrically opposed views of the humanity that politics serves.

Read Emile Durkheim next, to understand why old Europe's economy/political system kicks ours in the nuts.

Durkheim is not about placing mankind on the right link in the great chain of being. He's all about the social contract of the governed.

In Durkheim's view, there is an equivalent, matching set of expectations between teh governed and the government.

It's what Gingrich was making an obscene parody of in the nineties with his Contact On America.

[rch35]

6. Durkheim, i will remember that.

the social contract is a huge part of my interest in theory, and Hobbes definitely has a much different idea of it than i do, to say the least.

[Fovea]

7. While he is most known as the founder of modern sociology

he, like many such philosophers in the 19th century wore many hats.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ob4YadJo3uYC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=seven+theories+of+society&source=web&ots=RBk17Oley3&sig=n3p7RjpxNMgXNflczAURxJgk4CE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA10,M1

Here is a short precis that you might find enjoyable.

[rch35]

8. yes, none of these people fit into the familiar groups that we have today

even people as recent as friedman are vastly different than the mainstream or even the larger minorities today