In this study of space and power and knowledge in France from the 1830s through the 1930s, Rabinow uses the tools of anthropology, philosophy, and cultural criticism to examine how social environment was perceived and described. Ranging from epidemiology to the layout of colonial cities, he shows how modernity was revealed in urban planning, architecture, health and welfare adm...(展开全部)

We are all immersed in a sea of social norms, but they are sometimes tricky to observe with any clarity. They are often invisible to us and emerge only when they are not observed. Social norms are important to understand because they are both limiting of our freedom, such as gendered and racialized norms, and at the same time the very conditions of our agency. Social Goodness p...(展开全部)

We are all immersed in a sea of social norms, but they are sometimes tricky to observe with any clarity. They are often invisible to us and emerge only when they are not observed. Social norms are important to understand because they are both limiting of our freedom, such as gendered and racialized norms, and at the same time the very conditions of our agency. Social Goodness p...(展开全部)

What is the role of law in a society in which order is maintained mostly through social norms, trust, and non-legal sanctions? Eric Posner argues that social norms are sometimes desirable yet sometimes odious, and that the law is critical to enhancing good social norms and undermining bad ones. But he also argues that the proper regulation of social norms is a delicate and comp...(展开全部)

In this excellent book, Posner (law, Univ. of Chicago) raises such fundamental questions as why people conform to social norms and why they generally refrain from antisocial behavior even when the law is absent. He then proposes a methodology for the systematic analysis of social norms. Posner uses models of nonlegal collective action to show the possibilities underlying cooper...(展开全部)

The future of our species depends on the state—on how effectively states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania, and how they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper. Are states up to the task? In this book, the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit examines the nature of the state and the implications for...(展开全部)

The future of our species depends on the state—on how effectively states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania, and how they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper. Are states up to the task? In this book, the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit examines the nature of the state and the implications for...(展开全部)

In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to—and substantially shifts—that conversation in The Order of Forms by offering an exciting new category, political formalism, which she articulates through the co-emergence of aesthetic...(展开全部)

In this book Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer lucidly trace events from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon, stressing the global dimensions of the French Revolution and offering balanced coverage of both its causes and outcomes. In doing so, Hunt and Censer reaffirm its huge significance for the modern political world in the process. Hunt and Censer give due attention to global compet...(展开全部)

林恩·亨特（Lynn Hunt），国际知名历史学家，全球新文化史运动的领军人物，著名法国史学者，斯坦福大学博士，加州大学洛杉矶分校欧金·韦伯现代欧洲史教授，美国艺术与科学院院士，英国国家学术院通讯院士，美国哲学会会员，曾任美国历史协会主席，先后执教于宾夕法尼亚大学和加州大学伯克利分校，1982年获得古根海姆奖。 亨特著述颇丰，在新文化史、性别史、法国大革命史和史学理论等领域都颇有建树，其代表作有《新文化史》、《法国大革命中的政治、文化和阶级》、《法国大革命时期的家庭罗曼史》、《人权的发明：一部历史》和《全球时代的史学写作》等，其中很多已经被翻译成多国文字，在全球流行。 杰克·R. 森瑟（Jack R. Censer），约翰·霍普金斯大学博士，乔治·梅森大学历史学荣休教授，康奈尔大学和马里兰大学客座教授，曾任乔治·梅森大学人文和社会科学学院院长，主要研...(展开全部)