主编简介： 伊恩·夏皮罗是美国耶鲁大学政治学系教授、系主任。他兴趣广泛，著作主要涉及当代政治理论与社会理论，现阶段的研究重点则主要集中在民主理论方面。他的著作包括《自由理论中权利的演变》（The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory, 1986）、《政治批判》（Political Criticism，1990）、《理性选择理论的病变》（Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory，1994，与唐纳德·格林合著）、《民主的场域》（Democracy’s Place, 1996），以及《民主正义》（Democratic Justice, 1999）等。卡西亚诺·海克考登是耶鲁大学的博士生。他主要致力于当代政治哲学和社会理论的研究。 译者简 张熹珂，女，浙江宁波人。毕业于复旦大学国际关系与...(展开全部)

主编简介： 伊恩·夏皮罗是美国耶鲁大学政治学系教授、系主任。他兴趣广泛，著作主要涉及当代政治理论与社会理论，现阶段的研究重点则主要集中在民主理论方面。他的著作包括《自由理论中权利的演变》（The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory, 1986）、《政治批判》（Political Criticism，1990）、《理性选择理论的病变》（Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory，1994，与唐纳德·格林合著）、《民主的场域》（Democracy’s Place, 1996），以及《民主正义》（Democratic Justice, 1999）等。卡西亚诺·海克考登是耶鲁大学的博士生。他主要致力于当代政治哲学和社会理论的研究。 译者简 张熹珂，女，浙江宁波人。毕业于复旦大学国际关系与...(展开全部)

Democracy's flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition are all positive features of political institutions. But democracy fits uneasily with many other political values and is in many respects less than equal to the demands it confronts. In these two free-standing volumes some of the world's most prominent poli...(展开全部)

作者简介： 伊恩•夏皮罗是美国耶鲁大学政治学教授。他兴趣广泛，著作涉及当代政治和社会理论，特别是最近关注的民主理论。他的著作包括《自由理论的权利演变》（The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory，1986）、《政治批判》（Political Criticisim，1990）、《理性选择理论的病理剖析》（Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory，与唐纳德•格林合著，1994）、《民主的方位》（Democracy’s Place，1996）和《民主的正义》（Democratic Justice，1999）等。 卡西亚诺•海克考登是耶鲁大学的博士生。他主要致力于当代政治哲学和社会理论的研究。 译者简介： 刘厚金，1973年生，华东师范大学法学（政治学）博士，华东政法大学法学（经济法）...(展开全部)

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ign...(展开全部)

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ign...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to recognize and trumpet the grandness of the American project. His two-volume classic, Democracy in America , published in 1835, not only offered a vivid account of what was then a new nation but famously predicted what that nation would become. His startling prescience, as well as the endurance of his political ideas, has ...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to recognize and trumpet the grandness of the American project. His two-volume classic, Democracy in America , published in 1835, offered not only a vivid account of the still young nation but famously predicted what the nation would become, and firmly established his place in U.S. history. Yet in his own time, Tocqueville h...(展开全部)

Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the ...(展开全部)

Meng Yue is assistant professor of East Asian languages and literature at the University of California, Irvine.