关于作者 保罗·帕顿（Paul Patton），澳大利亚新南威尔士大学历史哲学学院副院长、教授、博士生导师，国际公认的德勒兹研究专家；其研究兴趣为康德以来的现代欧洲哲学，尤其是尼采和20世纪后期的法国哲学家德里达、福柯和德勒兹。著有《德勒兹：批评读本》（1996）、《德勒兹与政治》（2000）、《德勒兹概念：哲学、殖民、政治》（2010），（合）编著有《政治理论与原住民的权利》（2000）、《雅克·德里达：进行解构——悉尼研讨会》（2000）、《德勒兹与后殖民》（2010）、《德勒兹与德里达之间》（2003）、《中间空间的诗学》（2005）。 关于译者 尹晶，北京外交学院英语系副教授，清华大学英语语言文学博士，曾赴美国杜克大学英语系访学；主要研究方向为英美文学和西方文论,译有约翰·德林克沃特《世界文学史》（合译）、吉尔·德勒兹《哲学的客体——德勒兹读...(展开全部)

Re-reads Deleuze's whole body of work, reassessing his philosophical genealogy, influences and political potential What gives us the right to speak of a Deleuzian philosophy, a philosophy at first sight concerned solely with interpreting other philosophers and writers? Koichiro Kokubun focuses on Deleuze's method of 'free indirect discourse' to locate and explicate Deleuze's ph...(展开全部)

Re-reads Deleuze's whole body of work, reassessing his philosophical genealogy, influences and political potential What gives us the right to speak of a Deleuzian philosophy, a philosophy at first sight concerned solely with interpreting other philosophers and writers? Koichiro Kokubun focuses on Deleuze's method of 'free indirect discourse' to locate and explicate Deleuze's ph...(展开全部)

Concepts are the "tools" with which we think, criticize, argue, explain, and analyze. Political concepts are nothing less than building-blocks of political understanding: the political world means what our concepts tell us it means. But political concepts are notoriously slippery and subject to controversy. Indeed, political debate is often a debate about the correct use of pol...(展开全部)

Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in "Philosophy and Real Politics", Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a...(展开全部)

“Is there any such thing as political philosophy?” So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Rancière brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness and “the end of politics.” What precisely is at stake in the relationship between “philosophy” and the adjective “political”?...(展开全部)

“Is there any such thing as political philosophy?” So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Rancière brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness and “the end of politics.” What precisely is at stake in the relationship between “philosophy” and the adjective “political”?...(展开全部)

Eminently readable and written with candor and spirit, this 9th edition of Countries and Concepts simply observes that politics is composed of human conflicts or quarrels, forming patterns that can be studied. Analyzing four European nations and Japan at some length and four developing nations more briefly, this text studies the history, institutions, and political culture of ...(展开全部)

For courses in Introduction to Comparative Politics A Critical View of International Political Systems Countries and Concepts: Politics, Geography, Culture is a critical examination of comparative politics and political systems. The text rejects theories of smoothly functioning systems and embraces the mistakes that countries inevitably make, taking a skeptical approach to unde...(展开全部)

Systematically examining politics from around the world, Countries and Concepts presents ten accessible and in-depth studies of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, China, India, Mexico, Nigeria, and Iran. This text looks at similarities and differences in five key areas of each country to facilitate comparative analysis, defining important concepts and integrating examples...(展开全部)