{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/9a03fe9e-1ff0-4dcc-b3f6-50bd1f016ea4/50931770-d453-4a69-8da8-922f3f37d915?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"History of Ideas S2 E1 : Rousseau on Inequality","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195701f2eacc3a36070252a/619570bccb3c660012e3ce4b.png?height=200","description":"<p>This is episode 1 of the new HISTORY OF IDEAS series from Talking Politics. To hear the remaining 11 episodes, please <a href=\"https://play.acast.com/s/history-of-ideas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe </a>to History of Ideas!</p><p>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?&nbsp;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.&nbsp;Is Rousseau really such a nice philosopher?</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cvsp/Documents/DiscourseonInequality.pdf879500092.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free online version of text</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/rousseau-discourses-and-other-early-political-writings-2nd-edition?format=PB&amp;isbn=9781107151246\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Recommended version to purchase</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p>Going deeper…</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jean-Jacques-Rousseau-Professor-Leo-Damrosch/dp/0618872027\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Damrosch, <em>Jean Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius</em> (2005)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571224067-rousseaus-dog.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">David Edmonds and John Eidinow, <em>Rousseau’s Dog</em> (2007)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/01/how-rousseau-predicted-trump\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pankaj Mishra, ‘How Rousseau predicted Trump’, <em>The New Yorker</em> (2016)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008w3xm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">(Audio) <em>In Our Time</em>, The Social Contract</a></li></ul>","author_name":"David Runciman and Catherine Carr"}