تاريخ الأفكار: المساواة والعدالة والثورة

The best ideas and best books of 2024, according to The Times_ What is the history of ideas, and how has it shaped our world today? In this bold new book, the sequel to “Facing Leviathan,” David Runciman reveals the mysteries of contemporary politics and sheds light on the great intellectual men and women behind them. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us about the strangeness of the way we choose to organize our societies? How did Frederick Douglass not only expose the horrors of slavery, but advocate a new approach to its abolition? Why should we tolerate arrogance, betrayal, and hypocrisy, as Judith Schickler has pointed out? What does Friedrich Nietzsche predict for our future? From Rousseau to Rawls, from fascism to feminism, from pleasure to anarchy, this is a dizzying intellectual journey through the history of ideas that will change your view of politics today forever.