This book examines the impact of states and their policies on visual art. States shape the role of art and artists in society, influence the development of audiences, support artistic work, and even affect the very nature of artistic production. The book contrasts developments in the United States with art policies in Britain and in the social democratic states of Norway and Sw...(展开全部)

This book examines the impact of states and their policies on visual art. States shape the role of art and artists in society, influence the development of audiences, support artistic work, and even affect the very nature of artistic production. The book contrasts developments in the United States with art policies in Britain and in the social democratic states of Norway and Sw...(展开全部)

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is one of the most significant German Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century. Published in German in 1920 and now finally available in English for the first time, Hegel and the State is a major contribution to the understanding of Hegel's political and social thought and a profound analysis of the intellectual currents that shaped the German s...(展开全部)

Paul Wetherly provides a timely and forceful restatement of the classical Marxist theory of the state. The book develops an analytical approach that draws on, but also provides criticism of, G.A. Cohen's functional interpretation of Marx's theory of history. Cohen's treatment of the 'base-superstructure' connection is rather limited, in contrast to the detailed argument in resp...(展开全部)

Since its publication this important study has become established as a central work on the vast and contested subject of modern nationalism. Placing historical evidence within a general theoretical framework, John Breuilly argues that nationalism should be understood as a form of politics that arises in opposition to the modern state. In this updated and revised edition, he ext...(展开全部)

In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork "The State and Revolution". This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime...(展开全部)

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is one of the most significant German Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century. Published in German in 1920 and now finally available in English for the first time, Hegel and the State is a major contribution to the understanding of Hegel's political and social thought and a profound analysis of the intellectual currents that shaped the German s...(展开全部)

巴枯宁(1814～1876)(Bakunin，Mikhail Aleksandrovich)俄国革命者，国际无政府主义运动活动家和理论家。1814年5月30日生于贵族家庭,1876年7月1日卒于伯尔尼。1836～1840年在莫斯科研究哲学，1838 年发表《〈 黑格尔中学讲演录〉译者序言》，推崇黑格尔唯心主义哲学。1840年秋侨居国外，开始从事政治活动。在德国、瑞士、比利时、法国接触各种社会主义流派的代表人物，特别受到P.-J.蒲鲁东和W.魏特林的思想影响。1842年发表《德国的反动》一文，宣传资产阶级民主主义思想。巴枯宁积极参加欧洲1848年革命。4月到柏林策划武装暴动。6月参加在布拉格举行的斯拉夫人代表大会，发表《新斯拉夫政策的基础》一文，宣扬泛斯拉夫主义，鼓吹建立斯拉夫联邦。1849年5月因参加并领导德累斯顿起义被捕。1851年被引渡给俄国沙皇...(展开全部)

Reinforcement learning encompasses both a science of adaptive behavior of rational beings in uncertain environments and a computational methodology for finding optimal behaviors for challenging problems in control, optimization and adaptive behavior of intelligent agents. As a field, reinforcement learning has progressed tremendously in the past decade. The main goal of this bo...(展开全部)