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Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

A new series of talks by David Runciman, in which he explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics – from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy... Read more

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Constant on Liberty

Constant on Liberty

Benjamin Constant’s ‘The Liberty of the Ancients Compared to the Liberty of the Moderns’ (1819) examines what it means t... Read more

29 Apr 2020

46mins

Ranked #2

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Nietzsche on Morality

Nietzsche on Morality

Friedrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece The Genealogy of Morality (1887) sets out to explain where ideas of good and evil come... Read more

2 Mar 2021

46mins

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Rousseau on Inequality

Rousseau on Inequality

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality (also known as the Second Discourse) tells the story of all human histor... Read more

2 Feb 2021

47mins

Ranked #4

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Weber on Leadership

Weber on Leadership

Max Weber’s The Profession and Vocation of Politics (1919) was a lecture that became one of the defining texts of twenti... Read more

8 May 2020

44mins

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Hayek on the Market

Hayek on the Market

Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom (1944) was written during the Second World War but Hayek was really worried about ... Read more

11 May 2020

43mins

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Tocqueville on Democracy

Tocqueville on Democracy

Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835/40) can claim to be the best book ever written about democracy and th... Read more

30 Apr 2020

44mins

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Fukuyama on History

Fukuyama on History

Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History (1992) became associated with the triumph of liberal democracy at the end of the t... Read more

25 May 2020

46mins

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Bentham on Pleasure

Bentham on Pleasure

Jeremy Bentham’s Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is a definitive early statement of the basis o... Read more

9 Feb 2021

47mins

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Marx and Engels on Revolution

Marx and Engels on Revolution

The Communist Manifesto (1848) remains the most famous revolutionary text of all. But what was the problem with politics... Read more

1 May 2020

43mins

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Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics

Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the most remarkable books in the history of ... Read more

28 Apr 2020

46mins

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