Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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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.
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Going Deeper:
Robert Nozick, The Examined Life (1989)
Jonathan Wolff, Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal State (1991)
Stephen Metcalf, ‘The Liberty Scam’, Slate (2011)
[Video] Shelly Kagan, 'Hedonism and Nozick's Experience Machine' (from Open Yale Courses)
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History of Ideas Q and A
Shklar on Hypocrisy
Rawls on Justice
De Beauvoir on the Other
Schumpeter on Democracy
Schmitt on Friend vs Enemy
Luxemburg on Revolution
Nietzsche on Morality
Butler on Machines
Douglass on Slavery
Bentham on Pleasure
Rousseau on Inequality
Q & A with David
Fukuyama on History
MacKinnon on Patriarchy
Fanon on Colonialism
Arendt on Action
Hayek on the Market
Weber on Leadership
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