Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas
David Runciman, "Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas"
English | ISBN: 1788167821 | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1788167821 | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics host David Runciman, A History of Ideas 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.