Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
24 January 2007
THOMAS PAINE
Thomas Paine is the man whose pamphlet Common Sense outsold everything but the Bible and fermented the American Revolution in 1776. His book The Rights Of Man in response to the revolution in France established the idea of rights as the founding principle of society.
Laurie Taylor is joined by Craig Nelson, author of a new biography on Thomas Paine and Professor Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science to debate how Paine’s ideas fit into our sense of rights and discuss his legacy for modern democracy.
MIDDLE CLASSES
What is the relationship between class and money in modern Britain? Are people nowadays still defining themselves in class terms or is this changing? William Nelson, Deputy Head of Consultancy Services at the Future Foundation talks about the findings of his latest research entitled Changing Lives UK - Mastering the Middle Ground.
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN-10: 0486408930
ISBN-13: 978-0486408934
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN-10: 0486296024
ISBN-13: 978-0486296029
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN-10: 0486433935
ISBN-13: 978-0486433936
Craig Nelson, biographer, author and former editor at Random House books
Thomas Paine – His Life, Time and the Birth of Modern Nations
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
ISBN-10: 1861976380
ISBN-13: 978-1861976383
Professor Conor Gearty
Professor of Law and Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science
Can Human Rights Survive?: The Hamlyn Lectures 2005 (The Hamlyn Lectures)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10: 0521685524
ISBN-13: 978-0521685528
Principles of Human Rights Adjudication
Publisher: Oxford University Press; New Ed edition
ISBN-10: 0199287228
ISBN-13: 978-0199287222
Rorty on Human Rights - Faith, Reason or Sentiment?
By Conor Gearty
Date: Thursday 22 March - 7.00pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, SW7
William Nelson, Deputy Head of Consultancy Services at the Future Foundation
