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Hobbes on the State | Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS on Acast
Hobbes on the State | Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS on Acast
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) reimagined how we could do politics. It redefined many of the ideas that continue to shape modern politics: representation, sovereignty, the state. But in Leviathan these ideas have a strange and puzzling power. David explores what Hobbes was trying to achieve and …
Weber on Leadership | Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS on Acast
Weber on Leadership | Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS on Acast
Max Weber’s The Profession and Vocation of Politics (1919) was a lecture that became one of the defining texts of twentieth century political thought. In it, Weber explores the perils and paradoxes of leadership in a modern state. Is it possible to do bad in order to do good? Can violence ever be …
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