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History of Ideas: Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics

TALKING POLITICS

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The Double Legacy of Hobbes

Hobbes is the philosopher of order and sucking it out, but also gives people a chance to think what it would be to have a politics that made sense in its own terms. Mary Wollstonecraft was not really interested in Hobbes, I don't think; she certainly wasn't reacting against a Hobbesian defense of political order. It didn't come from Hobbes, it came from one of her contemporaries, the Anglo-Irish politician and political thinker Edmund Burke.

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