In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood lays out her innovative approach to the history of political theory and traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Her social history is a significant departure from other contextual interpretations. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood ...(展开全部)

艾伦•梅克辛斯•伍德（1942—2016） Ellen Meiksins Wood 马克思主义历史学家、政治学家。1962年毕业于加州大学伯克利分校，获得斯拉夫语学士学位，后进入加州大学洛杉矶分校政治系并于1972年获得博士学位。967年至1996年于约克大学执教政治学，因其卓著的学术贡献被选入加拿大皇家学院。著有《资本主义的起源》、《反对资本主义的民主》、《新社会主义》、《西方政治思想的社会史》等。

菲利普·内莫(Philippe Nemo，1949－），法国当代知名哲学、政治学教授，毕业于法国圣克鲁高师(Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud)，先后任教于图尔大学(Universi te de Tours)和奥吉斯特·孔德学院(Institut Auguste Comte)，现为巴黎高等商学院-欧洲管理学院(ESCP-EAP)的教授。

The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment - all these have been credited to the "early modern" period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. ...(展开全部)

A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book: * traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century * focuses on individual thinker...(展开全部)

Voegelin's magisterial account of medieval political thought opens with a survey of the structure of the period and continues with an analysis of the Germanic invasions, the fall of Rome, and the rise of empire and monastic Christianity. The political implications of Christianity and philosophy in the period are elaborated in chapters devoted to John of Salisbury, Joachim of Fl...(展开全部)

T IS hard to summon up much enthusiasm for politics these days. In Europe politicians are paralysed in the face of low growth and high unemployment. In the United States they are threatening to push the country off a fiscal cliff of their own devising. And in the Arab world spring has already turned into winter. Left-wingers rightly point out that the recently ascendant liberal...(展开全部)

Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether examining Lord Acton's dictum that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" or explicating John Stuart Mill's contenti...(展开全部)

[英]伊安·汉普歇尔-蒙克，英国埃克塞特大学政治理论教席荣休教授，享誉国际的《政治思想史》（History of Political Thought）杂志创刊主编，其著述包括《现代政治思想史：从霍布斯到马克思》《比较视野中的概念史》 《政治理论中的概念和理性》等，作品多次被翻译为法文、德文、西班牙文、葡萄牙文、荷兰文、土耳其文和韩文。