This second volume of Voegelin's magisterial Order and History, The World of the Polis, explores the ancient Greek symbolization of human reality. Taking us from the origins of Greek culture in the Pre-Homeric Cretan civilizations, through the Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod, and the rise of philosophy with the Pre-Socratics Parmenides and Heraclitus, this masterful work concludes wi...(展开全部)

This book, the first of two monographs exploring Thucydides, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on political order, using the Peloponnesian War to explore the historiography and political development of the ancient world. These scholars analyze the original source material of the Athenian order and interpretations of such material.

Divided into three parts - history, theory and praxis - this book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime. Arguing against the simplistic division in literary criticism between nihilism and the sublime, the book demonstrates that both are clearly implicated with the Enlightenment. Postmodernism, as a product of Enlightenment, is t...(展开全部)

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order “magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition.” In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as “a major achievement by one of the leading public int...(展开全部)

In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal. This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with...(展开全部)

Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script changed-first from cuneiform to a modified Aramaic, then to Arabic-from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries it served a broader geographical area than any language in world history. It was the primary language of admini...(展开全部)

Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving for...(展开全部)

With clarity, precision and economy, Paul Patton synthesizes the full range of Deleuze's work. He interweaves with great dexterity motifs that extend from his early works, such as Nietzsche and Philosophy, to the more recent What is Philosophy? and his key works such as Anti-Oedipus and Difference and Repetition. Throughout, Deleuze and the Political demonstrates Deleuze's rele...(展开全部)

李开复 创新工场创始人及首席执行官 创新工场人工智能工程院院长 李开复博士于2009年创立创新工场，担任首席执行官、创新工场人工智能工程院院长。创新工场现管理总额110亿元人民币的双币基金，主要关注人工智能、教育、消费升级、B2B企业服务、文化娱乐等领域，专注投资早中期的高成长型科技企业。 在此之前，李开复博士曾是谷歌全球副总裁兼大中华区总裁，曾在微软、苹果、硅谷图形公司担任要职。李开复获得了美国哥伦比亚大学计算机科学学士学位、卡内基·梅隆大学计算机系博士学位，同时还是香港城市大学的荣誉博士、卡内基·梅隆大学荣誉商业管理博士。 在人工智能领域，李开复创建的微软中国研究院被《麻省理工科技评论》誉为最热门的计算机科学实验室。此后，微软中国研究院更名为微软亚洲研究院，为中国培养了大批人工智能领军人物，包括百度、腾讯、阿里巴巴、联想、华为和海尔的首席技术官、...(展开全部)