What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action.</p> Some accounts of democracy's purposes fo...(展开全部)

This volume develops a novel approach to state theory. It offers a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the state and sets a new agenda for state research. Four central themes define the scope of the book: an account of the bases of the operational autonomy of the state; the need to develop state theory as part of a more general social theory; the possibilities ...(展开全部)

This study in English of Hegel's political philosophy presents an overall view of the development of Hegel's political thinking. The author has drawn on Hegel's philosophical works, his political tracts and his personal correspondence. Professor Avineri shows that although Hegel is primarily thought of as a philosopher of the state, he was much concerned with social problems an...(展开全部)

译者朱学平，武汉大学德国哲学博士，已出版专著《古典与现代的冲突与融合——青年黑格尔思想的形成与演进》（湖南教育出版社2010年版）、译著《办公室有哲学》（重庆大学出版社2010年版）、《实践理性与规范》（拉兹著，中国法制出版社2011年版），现正在主持国家社科基金项目《马克思早期政治哲学思想研究》（11BKS003）的研究。