Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

De Beauvoir on the Other

Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) is one of the founding texts of modern feminism and one of the most important books of the twentieth century. It covers everything from ancient myth to modern psychoanalysis to ask what the relations between men and women have in common with other kinds of oppression, from slavery to colonialism. It also offers some radical suggestions for how both women and men can be liberated from their condition. <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/103/1038399/the-second-sex/9780099595731.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Recommended version to buy</a> Going Deeper: <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4444/the-art-of-fiction-no-35-simone-de-beauvoir" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Madeline Gobeil, ‘Simone de Beauvoir, The Art of Fiction No. 35,’ The Paris Review (1965)</a><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/at-the-existentialist-cafe/sarah-bakewell/9780099554882" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails (2016) </a><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/becoming-beauvoir/dr-kate-kirkpatrick/9781350168435" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir (2019)</a><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06j5ncn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> [Audio]: Simone de Beauvoir, In Our Time</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.