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'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of
original mind' - William Godwin William Godwin was the first major
anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the
establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Famously
married to Mary Wollstonecraft, father to Mary Shelley and
inspiration to Lord Byron, his life and works 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 ostracised in both liberal and conservative circles. Godwin's
anarchism always remained at the centre of his work, and remains
his key legacy, inspiring libertarians, both left and right-wing.
This biography places Godwin alongside his famous family as a major
political, ethical and educational writer and shows why a
reappraisal of his ideas is needed today.
'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of
original mind' - William Godwin William Godwin was the first major
anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the
establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Famously
married to Mary Wollstonecraft, father to Mary Shelley and
inspiration to Lord Byron, his life and works 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 ostracised in both liberal and conservative circles. Godwin's
anarchism always remained at the centre of his work, and remains
his key legacy, inspiring libertarians, both left and right-wing.
This biography places Godwin alongside his famous family as a major
political, ethical and educational writer and shows why a
reappraisal of his ideas is needed today.
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