Description
“Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas” is a primer on political theory by David Runciman, host of the “Talking Politics” podcast. The book explores significant thinkers and ideas that have shaped modern politics, from Hobbes to Gandhi, and concepts such as democracy and patriarchy. Runciman examines how crises like revolutions, wars, depressions, and pandemics have generated new ways of political thinking, making it a history of ideas relevant to understanding contemporary events.
