Confronting Leviathan

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.