History of Ideas S2 E1 : Rousseau on Inequality
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This is episode 1 of the new HISTORY OF IDEAS series from Talking Politics. To hear the remaining 11 episodes, please subscribe to History of Ideas! Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality (also known as the Second Discourse) tells the story of all human history to answer one simple question: how did we end up in such an unequal world? David explores the steps Rousseau traces in the fall of humankind and asks whether this is a radical alternative to the vision offered by Hobbes or just a variant on it. Is Rousseau really such a nice philosopher? Free online version of text Recommended version to purchase Going deeper… - Leo Damrosch, Jean Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005) - David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Rousseau’s Dog (2007) - Pankaj Mishra, ‘How Rousseau predicted Trump’, The New Yorker (2016) - (Audio) In Our Time, The Social Contract   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/talkingpolitics.
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