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Confronting Leviathan : a history of ideas / David Runciman.

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ISBN 9781788167826 (hardback)
Name Runciman, David author.
Title Confronting Leviathan : a history of ideas / David Runciman.
Published London : Profile Books, 2021.
©2021
Description viii, 279 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Notes Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics host David Runciman.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Hobbes on the state : Leviathan (1651) -- Wollstonecraft on sexual politics : a vindication of the rights of women (1972) -- Constant on liberty : 'the liberty of the ancients compared to the liberty of the moderns' (1819) -- Tocqueville on democracy : democracy in America (1835/1840) -- Marx and Engels on revolution : the communist manifest (1884) -- Gandhi on self-rule : hind swaraj (1909) -- Weber on leadership : 'the profession and vocation of politics' (1919) -- Hayek on the market : the road to serfdom (1944) -- Arendt on action : the human condition (1958) -- Fanon on violence : the wretched of the Earth (1962) -- MacKinnon on sexual oppression : toward a feminist theory of the state (1989) -- Fukuyama on history : the end of history and the last man (1992).
Summary This book 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.
Subjects World politics
Philosophy
Added Title Based on (work): History Of Ideas (Podcast)
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