The History of Ideas
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The History of Ideas
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Author: David Runciman
ISBN: 9781800815926
Publisher: Profile Books Limited
Publish date: 3 July 2025
Pages: 320
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Subjects: History, Social History, Literary Criticism, Subjects & Themes, Politics, Political Science, Political Ideologies, Democracy, History & Theory, Geopolitics
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What is the history of ideas - and how has it shaped our world today?
In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it.
What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise our societies? How did Frederick Douglass not only expose the horrors of slavery, but champion a new approach to abolishing it? Why should we tolerate snobbery, betrayal and hypocrisy, as Judith Shklar suggested? And what does Friedrich Nietzsche predict for our future?
From Rousseau to Rawls, fascism to feminism and pleasure to anarchy, this is a mind-bending tour through the history of ideas which will forever change your view of politics today.
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