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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781788167833
Published: July 2022

Number of pages: 288
Width: 128 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 22 mm

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd