Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas, by David Runciman

Lincoln Allison enjoys an overview of the great political thinkers very different from the kind he grew up with

Published on
September 16, 2021
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September 16, 2021
Lincoln Allison
Montage of portraits of Karl Marx, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Hobbes, Gandhi and Hannah Arendt illustrating review of ‘Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas’ By David Runciman
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The question of the state, addressed by (l-r, clockwise) Marx, Wollstonecraft, Hobbes, Gandhi and Arendt, still feeds discussion

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