From Publishers Weekly In this acutely argued book, Columbia University political scientist Snyder challenges the American dogma that voting is a political panacea regardless of conditions or circumstances. Critically assessing American foreign policy in the 1990s, he argues that promoting free elections often produces serious conflict; he argues that where critical preconditio...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly In this acutely argued book, Columbia University political scientist Snyder challenges the American dogma that voting is a political panacea regardless of conditions or circumstances. Critically assessing American foreign policy in the 1990s, he argues that promoting free elections often produces serious conflict; he argues that where critical preconditio...(展开全部)

Nationalism and the prevalence of ethnic conflict are features of contemporary politics. Many commentators have viewed such conflicts as a return to some primitive impulse. Andreas Wimmer's book argues that nationalism is in fact characteristic of the modern world, deriving from the nature of the state. He argues that the nation-state rests on membership of a particular ethnic ...(展开全部)

西摩·马丁·李普塞特（1922—2006年）曾在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校、哈佛大学、斯坦福大学任教。主要研究方向为政治社会学、社会分层理论、公共舆论以及知识分子的社会学研究。曾担任美国政治学会主席、社会学研究学会主席，并入选美国国家科学院以及美国艺术与科学院院士。代表作有《政治人——政治的社会基础》、《共识与冲突》等。

When Judith Herman's Trauma and Recovery was first published five years ago, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman's now classic volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. In a new introduction, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book has elicited and explains how the issues surround...(展开全部)

When Judith Herman's Trauma and Recovery was first published five years ago, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman's now classic volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. In a new introduction, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book has elicited and explains how the issues surround...(展开全部)

在这本富有挑战性的书中，当代著名政治哲学家约翰•基恩呼吁重新认识民主与暴力之间的复杂关系。基恩探讨了处于争议中的暴力概念，提出并回答了如下一些主要问题：为何说暴力是民主最大的敌人？为什么今天全球性的“暴力三角”正在诱使政治家动用不民主的紧急权力？暴力能否“民主化”以及如何“民主化”？自始至终，基恩优先考虑伦理问题，提出并阐述了清除过剩暴力的十条规则。

The essays in "Violence and Subjectivity", written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. Like its predecessor volume, "Social Suffering", which explored the different ways social force inflicts harm on individuals and groups, this collection ventur...(展开全部)

Few thought systems have been as distorted and sometimes misconstrued as those of Marx and Hegel. Philosophy and Revolution, presented here in a new edition, attempts to save Marx from interpretations which restrict the revolutionary significance of the philosophy behind his theory. Developing her breakthrough on Hegel's Absolute Idea, Raya Dunayevskaya, who died in the June of...(展开全部)