作者简介 马克•里拉（Mark Lilla）：芝加哥大学社会思想委员会教授，美国公共领域中具有影响力的知识分子。本书《维柯：反现代的创生》是作者的成名之作，出版之后获得学术界很高的评价，奠定了他在思想史研究领域的声誉。另著有《当知识分子遇到政治》（The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics）、《胎死腹中的神：宗教、政治和现代西方》（The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West）。编有《新法兰西思想：政治哲学》（New French Thought: Political Philosophy）和《以赛亚•伯林的遗产》（The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin）。 作品列表 《维柯：反现代的创生》 《当知识分子遇到政治》 《...(展开全部)

From Library Journal Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) has long been claimed as a putative father of modern theoretical movements both in philosophy and political science. In this analysis of his subject's full corpus, Lilla (politics, NYU) cogently demonstrates that Vico was a "profound critic of the modern age" who used the newly emerging language of science to argue for the asce...(展开全部)

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the ...(展开全部)

Review By choosing to consider the rich interface between liberalism and philosophy (rather than, say, sociology or party organisation), Ryan has opened up a vast and exciting field for exploration and debate. The reader will find not only discussion of the manifold contributions of the great philosophers (biographical details where appropriate and available) but also insights ...(展开全部)

Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. The Making of Modern Burma argues instead that many aspects of Burmese society today, from the borders of the state to the social structure of the countryside to the very notion ...(展开全部)

Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. The Making of Modern Burma argues instead that many aspects of Burmese society today, from the borders of the state to the social structure of the countryside to the very notion ...(展开全部)

维克多•塞巴斯蒂安 记者。 著有： 《十二天：1956年革命》（TWELVE DAYS: REVOLUTION 1956 ），Weidenfeld, 2006 《1989年革命》（REVOLUTION 1989: FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE），W&N, 2009

维克多•塞巴斯蒂安 记者。 著有： 《十二天：1956年革命》（TWELVE DAYS: REVOLUTION 1956 ），Weidenfeld, 2006 《1989年革命》（REVOLUTION 1989: FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE），W&N, 2009

From Library Journal This book is primarily a historical account of the modernist protest against the disengaged and instrumental modes of thought and action that arose when theistically grounded morality crumbled, but that themselves focused too little upon our inner life, i.e., our powers of creative imagination and the substantive goods of ordinary life, which Taylor alleges...(展开全部)

In a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the Gevaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story. In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell ...(展开全部)