Confronting Leviathan

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'Bracingly intelligent ... a wonderful read' Guardian

'Incredibly timely ... presented [with] wonderful elegance and clarity' Irish Times

Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics host David Runciman, Confronting Leviathan explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics - from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, and from revolution to lock down.

While explaining the most important and often-cited ideas of thinkers such as Constant, De Tocqueville, Marx and Engels, Hayek, MacKinnon and Fukuyama, David Runciman shows how crises - revolutions, wars, depressions, pandemics - generated these new ways of political thinking. This is a history of ideas to help make sense of what's happening today.

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'Bracingly intelligent ... a wonderful read' Guardian

'Incredibly timely ... presented [with] wonderful elegance and clarity' Irish Times

Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics host David Runciman, Confronting Leviathan explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics - from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, and from revolution to lock down.

While explaining the most important and often-cited ideas of thinkers such as Constant, De Tocqueville, Marx and Engels, Hayek, MacKinnon and Fukuyama, David Runciman shows how crises - revolutions, wars, depressions, pandemics - generated these new ways of political thinking. This is a history of ideas to help make sense of what's happening today.

9781788167833

A History of Ideas

Runciman, David

History of Ideas; Talking Politics; How Democracy Ends; David Runciman; Wollstonecraft; Gandhi; Hobbes Leviathan; Political Theory; de Tocqueville; Weber on Leadership; Hayek Road to Serfdom; Hannah Arendt; Fratz Fanon the Wretched of the Earth; MacKinnon on Patriarchy; Fracis Fukuyama End of History