Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872) is a strange and unsettling book about a world turned upside down. Usually classified as utopian or dystopian fiction, it also contains an eerie prophecy about the coming of intelligent machines. David explores the origins of Butler’s ideas and asks what they have to teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise our societies, both then and now.
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History of Ideas Q and A
Shklar on Hypocrisy
Nozick on Utopia
Rawls on Justice
De Beauvoir on the Other
Schumpeter on Democracy
Schmitt on Friend vs Enemy
Luxemburg on Revolution
Nietzsche on Morality
Douglass on Slavery
Bentham on Pleasure
Rousseau on Inequality
Q & A with David
Fukuyama on History
MacKinnon on Patriarchy
Fanon on Colonialism
Arendt on Action
Hayek on the Market
Weber on Leadership
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TALKING POLITICS