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
