This book gives access to a richer and more extensive intellectual past than is common in many jurisprudence textbooks. As is intended ... it will expand the readers sense of the diversity of the past, of the struggle of some of the worlds greatest minds to make sense of the human condition in their times ... The book is a powerful confirmation that legal and political theory c...(展开全部)

The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved 'a totally new conception of what human life was for'. Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece.

约翰朱利叶斯诺里奇（John Julius Norwich，1929—2018），英国历史作家、电视节目主持人，曾在英国外交部任职。著作有《诺曼人在西西里》《撒哈拉》《英格兰南部建筑》《威尼斯史》《拜占庭史》等。他创作并主持过约三十部历史题材的电视纪录片。诺里奇勋爵曾任“拯救威尼斯”基金会主席、世界纪念性建筑基金会主席、国家名胜古迹信托机构执行委员会成员。他还是英国皇家文学学会、皇家地理学会和文物研究学会成员，获得过意大利共和国功勋勋章与英国皇家维多利亚勋章。

Turning Freud's famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice and "Making Sex" tells the story of sex in the west from the ancients to the moderns. The reader cannot fail to recognize the players in Laqueur's story - the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm - but the reader will be amazed at...(展开全部)

约翰朱利叶斯诺里奇（John Julius Norwich，1929—2018），英国历史作家、电视节目主持人，曾在英国外交部任职。著作有《诺曼人在西西里》《撒哈拉》《英格兰南部建筑》《威尼斯史》《拜占庭史》等。他创作并主持过约三十部历史题材的电视纪录片。诺里奇勋爵曾任“拯救威尼斯”基金会主席、世界纪念性建筑基金会主席、国家名胜古迹信托机构执行委员会成员。他还是英国皇家文学学会、皇家地理学会和文物研究学会成员，获得过意大利共和国功勋勋章与英国皇家维多利亚勋章。

How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today. The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which successive generations have reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary wor...(展开全部)

Postmodernity has been dubbed the great transformation in society and culture, yet in this book Keith Tester casts a cautious eye on such grandiose claims. Drawing on a range of themes and stories from European sociology and literature, Tester shows how many of the great statements about postmodernityare misleading. Tester argues that "postmodernity" is not so much the harbinge...(展开全部)