'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as relevant now as they have ever been. Arnold seeks to find out 'what culture really is, what good it can do, what is ou...(展开全部)

Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, and if it is really necessary. He contrasts culture, which he calls the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood...(展开全部)

AT LEAST SINCE the Enlightenment,when conventional notions of morality were stood on their heads, the intellectual class has found itself in diligent pursuit of its own elusive Holy Grail: a universal and rational order created, a la Descartes, from nothing. Wherever these folks have managed to put one of their abstractions into practice, of course, the result has been a drasti...(展开全部)

约翰·杜威（John Dewey，1859—1952），美国著名哲学家、教育家，实用主义哲学的创始人之一，美国进步主义教育运动的代表，早期传播思想家。

本书是实用主义哲学家约翰*杜威对公众研究的重要著作。在本书中，杜威展现了自己对公众智慧的强烈信念，他认为，公众有能力通过公共智慧解决公共问题，从而达成有效的公民自治。杜威在本书中定义并阐释了“公众”、“政府”、“国家”、“民主政治”的概念。作为一位积极推动社会改革，倡言 民主政治理想的所谓自由主义派人士，杜威在本书中体现出的对当时美国社会和公众的认识，了解当时美国的社会对于审视今日中国之问题，包含深意的关照。 In The Public and Its Problems, a classic of social and political philosophy, John Dewey exhibits his strong faith in the potential of human intelligence to solve the public...(展开全部)

What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. Modern cult...(展开全部)

Through the study of civil society, the evolution of social relations, and the breakdown of social order, Order and Anarchy re-examines the role of violence in human social evolution. Drawing on anthropology, political science, and evolutionary theory, it offers a novel approach to understanding stability and instability in human society. Robert Layton provides a radical critiq...(展开全部)

Through the study of civil society, the evolution of social relations, and the breakdown of social order, Order and Anarchy re-examines the role of violence in human social evolution. Drawing on anthropology, political science, and evolutionary theory, it offers a novel approach to understanding stability and instability in human society. Robert Layton provides a radical critiq...(展开全部)

D.N. Rodowick offers a critical analysis of the development of film theory since 1968. He shows how debates concerning the literary principles of modernism--semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and feminism--have transformed our understanding of cinematic meaning. Rodowick explores the literary paradigms established in France during the late 1960s and traces their...(展开全部)

Based on more than three decades of observation, Robert Jervis concludes in this provocative book that the very foundations of many social science theories - especially those in political science - are faulty. Taking insights from complexity theory as his point of departure, the author observes that we live in a world where things are interconnected, where unintended consequenc...(展开全部)