Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the most remarkable books in the history of ideas. A classic of early feminism, it uses what’s wrong with the relationship between men and women to illustrate what’s gone wrong with politics. It’s a story of lust and power, education and revolution. David explores how Wollstonecraft’s radical challenge to the basic ideas of modern politics continues to resonate today. Free online version of the text: <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420</a>Recommended version to purchase: <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/wollstonecraft-vindication-rights-men-and-vindication-rights-woman-and-hints?format=PB" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/wollstonecraft-vindication-rights-men-and-vindication-rights-woman-and-hints?format=PB</a> Going Deeper:<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pg5dr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In Our Time on Mary Wollstonecraft </a><a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wollstonecraft/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wollstonecraft in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169033/wollstonecraft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sylvana Tomaselli, Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020)</a><a href="http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301251h.html#e16" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Virginia Woolf on Mary Wollstonecraft</a><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Revolutionary-Writings-Reflections-Revolution-Cambridge/dp/0521605091" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France</a><a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/183/183856/sense-and-sensibility/9780141199672.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

A new series of talks by David Runciman, in which he explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics – from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, from revolution to lock down. Plus, he talks about the crises – revolutions, wars, depressions, pandemics – that generated these new ways of political thinking. From the team that brought you Talking Politics: a history of ideas to help make sense of what’s happening today. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.