THE TIMES BEST IDEAS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024 In this bold new follow-up to
Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the
great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us
about the oddity of how we choose to organise our societies? How did Frederick
Douglass not only expose the horrors of slavery, but champion a new approach to
abolishing it? Why should we tolerate snobbery, betrayal and hypocrisy, as
Judith Shklar suggested? And what does Friedrich Nietzsche predict for our
future? From Rousseau to Rawls, fascism to feminism and pleasure to anarchy,
this is a mind-bending tour through the history of ideas which will forever
change your view of politics today.