We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of West...(展开全部)

Giorgio Agamben is a contemporary Italian philosopher and political theorist whose works have been translated into numerous languages. His most recent title with Stanford University Press is Pilate and Jesus (2014).

We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of West...(展开全部)

Giorgio Agamben is a contemporary Italian philosopher and political theorist whose works have been translated into numerous languages. His most recent title with Stanford University Press is Pilate and Jesus (2014).

A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. "War and War," Laszlo Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by th...(展开全部)

胡素珊（Suzanne Pepper），美国学者。1972年获美国加州大学柏克莱分校博士学位。长期居住香港，从事中国问题特别是中国教育问题的研究和写作。除本书外，著有：《中国的大学》（1984），《20世纪80年代的中国教育改革》（1990），《激进主义与20世纪的中国教育改革》（1996）。《剑桥中国史》第13卷（中华民国部分）1945至1949年的篇章便出于她的手笔，她还为《剑桥中国史》第14、15卷（中华人民共和国部分）撰写了有关教育问题的三章。

胡素珊（Suzanne Pepper），美国学者。1972年获美国加州大学柏克莱分校博士学位。长期居住香港，从事中国问题特别是中国教育问题的研究和写作。除本书外，著有：《中国的大学》（1984），《20世纪80年代的中国教育改革》（1990），《激进主义与20世纪的中国教育改革》（1996）。《剑桥中国史》第13卷（中华民国部分）1945至1949年的篇章便出于她的手笔，她还为《剑桥中国史》第14、15卷（中华人民共和国部分）撰写了有关教育问题的三章。

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize War & War begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked and robbed by thuggish teenagers. From here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archive...(展开全部)

Max Weber (1864-1920), generally known as a founder of modern social science, was concerned with political affairs throughout his life. The texts in this edition span his career and illustrate the development of his political thinking on the fate of Germany and the nature of politics in the modern Western state in an age of cultural "disenchantment." The introduction discusses ...(展开全部)

This is the second volume of Judith Shklar's work and brings together essays on a number of themes, including the place of the intellect in the modern political world and the dangers of identity politics. Editor Stanley Hoffman provides a guide to Shklar's thought, complemented by George Kateb's comprehensive introduction to her work.