《现化社会与人》名著译丛R.尼布尔，美国当代最著名的基督教哲学家，一生著述甚丰，本书是他的代表作之一，系统阐述了他的伦理学和政治学观点。作者认为，在不可避免的人类分裂及冲突面前，集团主义的残酷，理性主义者和社会科学者的无能都加剧了人类经济斗争和政治斗争带来的悲剧，道德的人在这不道德的社会中能否生存下，成了我们当代面临的最大问题。

Arguably his most famous book, Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study (1932) in ethics and politics. Widely read and continually relevant, this book marked Niebuhr's decisive break from progressive religion and politics toward a more deeply tragic view of human nature and history. Forthright and realistic, Moral Man and Immoral Society argues ...(展开全部)

《现化社会与人》名著译丛R.尼布尔，美国当代最著名的基督教哲学家，一生著述甚丰，本书是他的代表作之一，系统阐述了他的伦理学和政治学观点。作者认为，在不可避免的人类分裂及冲突面前，集团主义的残酷，理性主义者和社会科学者的无能都加剧了人类经济斗争和政治斗争带来的悲剧，道德的人在这不道德的社会中能否生存下，成了我们当代面临的最大问题。

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was one of America's foremost twentieth-century religious thinkers and social critics. As pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, he became deeply interested in social problems. He was Professor of Applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary, remaining there until his retirement. Ultimately, he abandoned his liberal Protestant hopes f...(展开全部)

This series makes available in English some important work by German philosophers on major figures in the German philosophical tradition. The volumes will provide critical perspectives on philosophers of great significance to the Anglo-American philosophical community, perspectives that have been largely ignored except by a handful of writers on German philosophy. The dissemina...(展开全部)

Legislation to change Korean society along Confucian lines began at the founding of the Chosŏn dynasty in 1392 and had apparently achieved its purpose by the mid seventeenth century. Until this important new study, however, the nature of Koryŏ society, the stresses induced by the new legislation, and society's resistance to the Neo-Confucian changes imposed by the Chosŏn elite ...(展开全部)

Arguing that hypocrisy can be constructive and that strictly principled behaviour can be destructive, this book explores the full range of ethical alternatives, distinguishing the various types of hypocrisy and integrity. Drawing on the work of Machiavelli and Rousseau, who both recognized that the irrationalities of human behaviour made totally honest and rational politics imp...(展开全部)

It has long been known that the origins of the early modern dynasties of the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, Mongols, and Shibanids in the sixteenth century go back to "Turco-Mongol" or "Turcophone" war bands. However, too often has this connection been taken at face value, usually along the lines of ethno-linguistic continuity. Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires argues th...(展开全部)

The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics is a 1977 book by Hedley Bull and a founding text of the so called English School of international relations theory. The title refers to the assumption of anarchy in the international system (posited primarily by realists) and argues for the existence of an international society. The book also outlines Bull's theory of ...(展开全部)