Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the...(展开全部)

Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the...(展开全部)

Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as 'ill', or 'sick', and why we are so often drawn to conceiving of social problems as ailments or maladies. He shows h...(展开全部)

Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as 'ill', or 'sick', and why we are so often drawn to conceiving of social problems as ailments or maladies. He shows h...(展开全部)

As the Iron Curtain was shattered recently in Eastern Europe, revealing a diversity of cultural traditions lost during the recent past, so too the curtain which has hidden Karl Marx's writings for many years seems to be crumbling. Its disappearance reveals a rich complexity of traditions and visions that underlay his social, political, and economic theory. Marx and Aristotle br...(展开全部)

In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few years, the book includes seven essays not previously published, plus two have not appeared in English before....(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡尔·洛维特（Karl Löwith，1897—1973） 犹太裔德国哲学家。生于慕尼黑，1919年前往弗赖堡大学求学，师从胡塞尔和海德格尔，1923年获得博士学位。在完成博士论文之后，洛维特随海德格尔去了马堡大学，在他的指导下完成了教职论文，1928—1933年在马堡大学任教，随后因纳粹的反犹政策流亡意大利、日本和美国等地，1952年受伽达默尔邀请，返回德国到海德堡大学哲学系任教至1964年退休。一生著述遍涉神学、历史哲学、社会哲学和思想史研究。洛维特的主要著作另有《尼采的相同者的永恒轮回哲学》（1935）、《雅各布·布克哈特》（1936）、《欧洲虚无主义》（1940）、《从黑格尔到尼采》（1941）、《世界历史与救赎历史》（1953）、《海德格尔——贫困时代的思想家》（1953）与《知识、信仰、怀疑》（1956）等。德国麦兹勒（Me...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡尔·洛维特（Karl Löwith，1897—1973） 犹太裔德国哲学家。生于慕尼黑，1919年前往弗赖堡大学求学，师从胡塞尔和海德格尔，1923年获得博士学位。在完成博士论文之后，洛维特随海德格尔去了马堡大学，在他的指导下完成了教职论文，1928—1933年在马堡大学任教，随后因纳粹的反犹政策流亡意大利、日本和美国等地，1952年受伽达默尔邀请，返回德国到海德堡大学哲学系任教至1964年退休。一生著述遍涉神学、历史哲学、社会哲学和思想史研究。洛维特的主要著作另有《尼采的相同者的永恒轮回哲学》（1935）、《雅各布·布克哈特》（1936）、《欧洲虚无主义》（1940）、《从黑格尔到尼采》（1941）、《世界历史与救赎历史》（1953）、《海德格尔——贫困时代的思想家》（1953）与《知识、信仰、怀疑》（1956）等。德国麦兹勒（Me...(展开全部)