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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Also by David Runciman
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Hobbes on the State: Leviathan (1651)
- 2. Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- 3. Constant on Liberty: ‘The Liberty of the Ancients Compared to the Liberty of the Moderns’ (1819)
- 4. Tocqueville on Democracy: Democracy in America (1835/1840)
- 5. Marx and Engels on Revolution: The Communist Manifesto (1848)
- 6. Gandhi on Self-Rule: Hind Swaraj (1909)
- 7. Weber on Leadership: ‘The Profession and Vocation of Politics’ (1919)
- 8. Hayek on the Market: The Road to Serfdom (1944)
- 9. Arendt on Action: The Human Condition (1958)
- 10. Fanon on Violence: The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
- 11. Mackinnon on Sexual Oppression: Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989)
- 12. Fukuyama on History: The End of History and the Last Man (1992)
- Further Reading, Watching, Listening
- Picture Credits
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