William Godwin - A Political Life Thomas Richard GoughPaperback
"Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind"--William GodwinWilliam Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, and his thought rocked the…
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"Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind"--William GodwinWilliam Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, and his thought rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Famously married to Mary Wollstonecraft, father to Mary Shelley, and inspiration to Lord Byron, he lived a life and created a body of work that lie at the heart of British radicalism and romanticism.In this biography, Richard Gough Thomas reads Godwin afresh, drawing on newly discovered letters and journals. He situates Godwin's early life in the counterculture of eighteenth-century religious dissent, before moving on to exploring the ideas of the French Revolution. As Godwin's groundbreaking works propelled him from Whig party hack to celebrity philosopher, his love affair with Mary Wollstonecraft saw him ostracized in both
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