Many emotions attenuate more rapidly than the significance of the considerations that gives rise to them as we accommodate ourselves to what happens. Grief often diminishes quickly, even though the dead continue to matter to us; anger often evaporates, even though the injustice to which it responds remains undiminished. Nonetheless, such accommodation seems somehow all right: I...(展开全部)

Many emotions attenuate more rapidly than the significance of the considerations that gives rise to them as we accommodate ourselves to what happens. Grief often diminishes quickly, even though the dead continue to matter to us; anger often evaporates, even though the injustice to which it responds remains undiminished. Nonetheless, such accommodation seems somehow all right: I...(展开全部)

A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world’s iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart. Mothers are the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings, for e...(展开全部)

The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civili...(展开全部)

Nationalism and patriotism are two of the most powerful forces shaping world history. Though seen by many as two sides of the same coin, they have developed widely different connotations. Nationalism is increasingly seen as destructive, and at the root of the world's bloodiest conflicts; patriotism seems something more benign, a political virtue. How are we to mark the distinct...(展开全部)

毛里齐奥·维罗里（Maurizio Viroli），1952年生于弗利，毕业于博洛尼亚大学哲学系，1985年获佛罗伦萨欧洲大学学院的社会政治科学博士学位，曾执教于乔治敦大学的新社会研究学院和比萨高等师范学院。现为普林斯顿大学政治学荣休教授、得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校管理系教授。主要研究领域为：政治理论和政治思想史、经典共和主义和新共和主义，并特别专注于尼可罗·马基雅维利、让-雅克·卢梭政治哲学研究等。主要著作有：《让一雅克·卢梭和“善治社会”》（Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the“Well-Ordered Society”）、《从政治到国家理性》（From Politics to Reason of State）等。 潘亚玲，2007年毕业于复旦大学国际关系学院，获法学博士学位，现为复旦大学美国研究中心副研究员。

Nationalism and patriotism are two of the most powerful forces shaping world history. Though seen by many as two sides of the same coin, they have developed widely different connotations. Nationalism is increasingly seen as destructive, and at the root of the world's bloodiest conflicts; patriotism seems something more benign, a political virtue. How are we to mark the distinct...(展开全部)

毛里齐奥·维罗里（Maurizio Viroli），1952年生于弗利，毕业于博洛尼亚大学哲学系，1985年获佛罗伦萨欧洲大学学院的社会政治科学博士学位，曾执教于乔治敦大学的新社会研究学院和比萨高等师范学院。现为普林斯顿大学政治学荣休教授、得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校管理系教授。主要研究领域为：政治理论和政治思想史、经典共和主义和新共和主义，并特别专注于尼可罗·马基雅维利、让-雅克·卢梭政治哲学研究等。主要著作有：《让一雅克·卢梭和“善治社会”》（Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the“Well-Ordered Society”）、《从政治到国家理性》（From Politics to Reason of State）等。 潘亚玲，2007年毕业于复旦大学国际关系学院，获法学博士学位，现为复旦大学美国研究中心副研究员。

托马斯·罗伯特·马尔萨斯（1766—1834），英国经济学家，牧师，著名学者，主要研究领域为政治经济学和人口学。《人口原理》是他最重要的著作，对后世产生了重大影响。他在书中提出了重要的人口过剩问题，并预言，人口增长率是不可维持的，持续的人口增长最终会导致贫困。尽管本书引起了很大的争议，但其无疑是十八至十九世纪最重要的著作之一，影响深远，甚至达尔文和他的自然选择理论都受到其影响。

托马斯·罗伯特·马尔萨斯（1766—1834），英国经济学家，牧师，著名学者，主要研究领域为政治经济学和人口学。《人口原理》是他最重要的著作，对后世产生了重大影响。他在书中提出了重要的人口过剩问题，并预言，人口增长率是不可维持的，持续的人口增长最终会导致贫困。尽管本书引起了很大的争议，但其无疑是十八至十九世纪最重要的著作之一，影响深远，甚至达尔文和他的自然选择理论都受到其影响。