{"product_id":"confronting-leviathan-by-david-runciman-9781788167833","title":"Confronting Leviathan","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBracingly intelligent ... a wonderful read\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIncredibly timely ... presented [with] wonderful elegance and clarity\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics host David Runciman, \u003cem\u003eConfronting Leviathan\u003c\/em\u003e explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics - from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, and from revolution to lockdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile explaining the most important and often-cited ideas of thinkers such as Constant, De Tocqueville, Marx and Engels, Hayek, MacKinnon and Fukuyama, David Runciman shows how crises - revolutions, wars, depressions, pandemics - generated these new ways of political thinking. This is a history of ideas to help make sense of what's happening today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430319833324,"sku":"9781788167833","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781788167833.jpg?v=1774559198","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/confronting-leviathan-by-david-runciman-9781788167833","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}