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Confronting Leviathan : A History of Ideas - David Runciman

Confronting Leviathan

A History of Ideas

By: David Runciman

eBook | 9 September 2021

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A primer on political theory from bestselling author and host of Talking Politics David Runciman.

'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.

About the Author

David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University. He is the author of six previous books, including Where Power Stops, How Democracy Ends, Political Hypocrisy and The Confidence Trap. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and hosts the widely acclaimed weekly podcast Talking Politics, which has been downloaded 25 million times.
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