Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

Nozick on Utopia

Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974) was designed as a rebuttal to Rawls but it was so much more than that. It offered a defence of the minimal state that appealed to the writers of The Sopranos and a vision of utopia that appealed to the founders of Silicon Valley. David explores what Nozick wanted to achieve and identifies the surprising radicalism behind his political minimalism. <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/books/anarchy-state-and-utopia/9780631197805 " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Recommended version to buy </a> Going Deeper: <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Examined-Life/Robert-Nozick/9780671725013" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Nozick, The Examined Life (1989)</a><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=3237" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jonathan Wolff, Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal State (1991)</a><a href="https://slate.com/culture/2011/06/robert-nozick-father-of-libertarianism-even-he-gave-up-on-the-movement-he-inspired.html#p2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen Metcalf, ‘The Liberty Scam’, Slate (2011)</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqIgQC0Gx4Y" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[Video] Shelly Kagan, 'Hedonism and Nozick's Experience Machine' (from Open Yale Courses)</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.