T IS hard to summon up much enthusiasm for politics these days. In Europe politicians are paralysed in the face of low growth and high unemployment. In the United States they are threatening to push the country off a fiscal cliff of their own devising. And in the Arab world spring has already turned into winter. Left-wingers rightly point out that the recently ascendant liberal...(展开全部)

Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether examining Lord Acton's dictum that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" or explicating John Stuart Mill's contenti...(展开全部)

Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether examining Lord Acton's dictum that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" or explicating John Stuart Mill's contenti...(展开全部)

T IS hard to summon up much enthusiasm for politics these days. In Europe politicians are paralysed in the face of low growth and high unemployment. In the United States they are threatening to push the country off a fiscal cliff of their own devising. And in the Arab world spring has already turned into winter. Left-wingers rightly point out that the recently ascendant liberal...(展开全部)

[英]伊安·汉普歇尔-蒙克，英国埃克塞特大学政治理论教席荣休教授，享誉国际的《政治思想史》（History of Political Thought）杂志创刊主编，其著述包括《现代政治思想史：从霍布斯到马克思》《比较视野中的概念史》 《政治理论中的概念和理性》等，作品多次被翻译为法文、德文、西班牙文、葡萄牙文、荷兰文、土耳其文和韩文。

Iain Hampsher-Monk’s lucid and accessible history of modern political thought is the introduction which many have been waiting for, providing a thorough guide to the ideas and writings of major political thinkers from Hobbes to Marx (including a full account of The Federalist papers). The author’s aim throughout is to incorporate the benefits of modern scholarship of the hist...(展开全部)

Our modern age is preeminently an Age of Ideology. It is true that in some sense of the term, ideology has always been and always will be with us. There has never been a time when human behavior, including political behavior, has not been largely affected by the mental images, or stereotypes, through which men have grown accustomed to perceive and judge the world around them......(展开全部)

A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book: * traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century * focuses on individual thinker...(展开全部)

[英]伊安·汉普歇尔-蒙克，英国埃克塞特大学政治理论教席荣休教授，享誉国际的《政治思想史》（History of Political Thought）杂志创刊主编，其著述包括《现代政治思想史：从霍布斯到马克思》《比较视野中的概念史》 《政治理论中的概念和理性》等，作品多次被翻译为法文、德文、西班牙文、葡萄牙文、荷兰文、土耳其文和韩文。

A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book: * traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century * focuses on individual thinker...(展开全部)