Combining biography and intellectual history, Steven Rockefeller offers an illuminating introduction to the philosophy of John Dewey, with special emphasis on the evolution of the religious faith and moral vision at the heart of his thought. This study pays particular attention to Dewey's radical democratic reconstruction of Christianity and his many contributions to the Americ...(展开全部)

哈福德·麦金德（Halford John Mackinder，1861—1947），英国著名地理学家与地缘政治家。 他认为地理学是探讨人类与自然环境相互作用的科学，提出陆心说，首次以全球战略观念分析世界政治力量。他对英国大学地理教育的发展起了重要作用，著有《历史的地理枢纽》、《不列颠与不列颠的海洋》和《民主的理想与现实》等。

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the text of two of Schrodinger's most famous lecture series. 'Nature and the Greeks' offers a comprehensive...(展开全部)

The topic of religious and ritual change, including conversion from one modality of practices to another, has emerged in recent years as a prime focus of scholarly attention in anthropology and related disciplines, such as history, sociology, political science and religious studies. Conversion to Christianity is one focus that has developed within this broad and dynamic field ...(展开全部)

Why are democracies pursuing more military conflicts, but achieving worse results? Democratic Militarism shows that a combination of economic inequality and military technical change enables an average voter to pay very little of the costs of large militaries and armed conflict, in terms of both death and taxes. Jonathan Caverley provides an original statistical analysis of pub...(展开全部)

The author reviews the Confucian tradition through the two concepts, religion and humanities. Chinese scholars always adopt Zongjiao and Renwen from the ancient Chinese documents as the Chinese translation of religion and humanities. In respect of their own contexts of culture, the Chinese words and the English words share some similarities in meaning, but also have some vital ...(展开全部)

In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces humanism's emergence in the unique social and cultural conditions of fourteenth-century Italy and its gradual diffusion throughout the rest of Europe. He shows how, despite its eli...(展开全部)

莎伦•R.克劳斯是布朗大学政治科学系教授，就古典自由主义和当代自由主义论题撰写过多篇文章，论及休谟、孟德斯鸠、波伏娃，以及当代的正义理论，发表在《政治理论》、《政治评论》、《政治与性别》、《当代政治理论》等刊物上，并著有《荣誉与自由主义》、《主权之上的自由：重建自由的个体主义》等。

Must we put passions aside when we deliberate about justice? Can we do so? The dominant views of deliberation rightly emphasize the importance of impartiality as a cornerstone of fair decision making, but they wrongly assume that impartiality means being disengaged and passionless. In "Civil Passions", Sharon Krause argues that moral and political deliberation must incorporate ...(展开全部)