As the world’s largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and economic issues. Here, noted journalist and former Financial Times South Asia bureau chief Edward Luce travels throughout India’s ...(展开全部)

Contents: 1.Global and Medieval: India's schizophrenic economy 2.The Burra Sahibs: The long tentacles of India's state 3.Battles of the Righteous:The rise of India's lower Castes 4.The Imaginary Horse: The continuing threat of Hindu Nationalism 5.Long live the Sycophants!: the Congress Party's continuing love affair with the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty 6.Many Crescents:South Asia's di...(展开全部)

Contents: 1.Global and Medieval: India's schizophrenic economy 2.The Burra Sahibs: The long tentacles of India's state 3.Battles of the Righteous:The rise of India's lower Castes 4.The Imaginary Horse: The continuing threat of Hindu Nationalism 5.Long live the Sycophants!: the Congress Party's continuing love affair with the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty 6.Many Crescents:South Asia's di...(展开全部)

As the world’s largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and economic issues. Here, noted journalist and former Financial Times South Asia bureau chief Edward Luce travels throughout India’s ...(展开全部)

王宁，英国谢菲尔德大学博士，中山大学政务学院社会学系教授、管理学院双聘教授、博士生导师，中山大学社会学系主任，中国社会学会常务理事。

The eighteenth-century Englightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Here a master historian goes back to the sources to give us both a more so...(展开全部)

The eighteenth-century Englightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Here a master historian goes back to the sources to give us both a more so...(展开全部)

In a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy. What does the advance of science entail for our understanding of ourselves and for our ideas of God? How should a gover...(展开全部)

The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought. Western philosophy is now two and a half mill ennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb documented the first burst, w...(展开全部)

In a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy. What does the advance of science entail for our understanding of ourselves and for our ideas of God? How should a gover...(展开全部)