The history of ideas
equality, justice, and revolution
- ISBN: 9781800815902
- Editorial: Profile Books Ltd.
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 320
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on inequality (1755)
Jeremy Bentham, An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation (1780)
Frederick Douglas, My bondage and my freedom (1855)
Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872)
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the genealogy of morality (1887)
Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian revolution (1918)
Carl Schmitt, The concept of the political (1928/1932)
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, socialism and democracy (1942)
Simone de Beauvoir, The second sex (1949)
John Rawls, A theory of justice (1971)
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, state, and Uptopia (1974)
Judith Shklar, Ordinary vices (1984)
