Relativity Looking for further Relativity textbooks

[GravitySK]

I'm reading chapter 7 of Goldstein Classical Mechanics (the special relativity part)
I'm planning to take a deep(very deep!) study on Relativity(Both Special and General Theory) after finishing chapter 7 of Goldstein.
Which textbooks will you recommend?
If you could give me a suggestion with reason, it would help me a lot! Thank you!Also, I have only a little knowledge on Electrodynamics(like Maxwell equation, Some Electromagnetic theory)
Will it affect my study on relativity?

 

[Demystifier]

Also, I have only a little knowledge on Electrodynamics(like Maxwell equation, Some Electromagnetic theory)
Will it affect my study on relativity?

You can learn special relativity without knowledge of electrodynamics. However, before jumping to general relativity, some knowledge of electrodynamics would be very useful.

 

[andresB]

You don't need to be an expert in electrodynamics to go for relativity but It is higly advisable that you are at least very familiar with basic facts about Maxwell's equations and with the electromagnetic nature of light.

I recommend that you start your relativity with a book that starts with "why" relativity is needed, something like Antonhy French's special relativity.

 

[Abhishek11235]

How much deep?
You can go for Jackson's excellent book on Classical Electrodynamics for going somewhat deeper into application of theory. Special relativity has heavy application inside this topic(The other in Quantum mechanics called QED)(Obviously Special theory of relativity has its roots from electrodynamics only). For GR,there are lot of references (Assuming you have prerequisite). There are many standard books which follow modern approach to GR(In an algebraic fashion). Some of them are Wald's General relativity(This one is modern one), Weinberg's Gravitational and Cosmology(Somewhat old but still it is preferred),The famous MTW textbook,Gravitation(Also old),etc.

 

[vanhees71]

Almost all modern books on RT lack a treatment of continuum mechanics (which indeed is the only fully self-consistent mechanics there is in relativity). I've just found the ideal addition for that topic. It's marvelous:

https://books.google.de/books/about/Classical_Field_Theory.html?id=_epxGQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y