A new series of talks by David Runciman, in which he explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying... more
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A special episode in which David answers some of the audience's questions about the second series of History of Ideas.... more
Judith Shklar’s Ordinary Vices (1984) made the case that the worst of all the vices is cruelty. But that meant we... more
Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974) was designed as a rebuttal to Rawls but it was so much more... more
John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971) changed the face of modern political philosophy by reinventing the question of what... more
Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) is one of the founding texts of modern feminism and one of the... more
Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942) contains a famous, and minimal, definition of democracy as the competition between political... more
Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political (1932) has been hugely influential on the left as well as the right... more
Rosa Luxemburg wrote ‘The Russian Revolution’ (1918) from a jail cell in Germany. In it she described how the Bolshevik revolution... more
Friedrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece The Genealogy of Morality (1887) sets out to explain where ideas of good and evil come from... more
Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872) is a strange and unsettling book about a world turned upside down. Usually classified as utopian or... more
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