Augustine - for all of his influence on Western culture and politics - was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition. The result is a book that expands Augustinian imaginations for li...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 埃里克·格雷戈里（Eric Gregory）在哈佛大学取得硕士学位后，以“罗德学者”的身份在牛津大学学习神学，后又在耶鲁大学取得宗教研究博士学位；2001年起，他获得普林斯顿大学的教职，凭借本书，于2009年晋升为教授。 他的研究领域包括宗教和哲学伦理、神学、政治理论、法律和宗教，以及宗教在公共生活中的作用。他笔耕不辍，在《宗教伦理期刊》（Journal of Religious Ethics）、《基督教伦理研究》（Studies in Christian Ethics）、《奥古斯丁研究》（ Augustinian Studies）等期刊上发表了多篇论文。目前，他正在写作一本新书，暂定名为《陌生人的聚会：全球正义与政治神学》（The In-Gathering of Strangers: Global Justice and Politi...(展开全部)

Democratic breakdown as a political and historic event can impact the fate of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people, by changing the political complexion of a country. This book attempts to systematically explain why democracies collapse. The author's main theoretical argument is based on the examination of two factors. One is political cleavages among voters. These c...(展开全部)

迈克尔·欧克肖特(Michael Oakeshott，1901—1990)，英国哲学家，政治思想家，20世纪最重要的保守主义知识分子。其思想融英国观念论与休谟的怀疑论于一炉，对伯克等人所建立的英国传统保守主义思想从哲学上做了系统阐述，他对于知识论、政治哲学、历史哲学、宗教哲学和教育哲学都有着深湛的研究和阐发。在英美学术界享有极高声誉，被誉为“20世纪少有的杰出政治哲学家”、“这个世纪最有原创性的学院政治哲学家”、“从密尔或甚至伯克以来盎格鲁-撒克逊传统最伟大的政治哲学家”。 本文集收入了欧克肖特大部分作品，其中包括在他生前发表的著作——《政治中的理性主义》(节选本)(1962)、“论人类行为》(1975)、《论历史及其他论文》(1983)和《人文知识的声音：迈克尔·欧克肖特论教育》(1989)，也包括在他去世后，由别人给他整理出版的著作《宗教、政治与...(展开全部)

Compassion is not a simple sentiment, especially in the modern world. Today the term invokes ideas of individual and collective obligation to respond actively to suffering; compassion becomes a complex response involving the state, the military, economic factors, and of course ethical and moral issues. In Compassion , ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social ...(展开全部)

When one defines order as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his...(展开全部)

This book, the first of two monographs exploring Thucydides, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on political order, using the Peloponnesian War to explore the historiography and political development of the ancient world. These scholars analyze the original source material of the Athenian order and interpretations of such material.

為英國約克大學社會學教授，除了消費社會學，亦多有著述針對宗教社會學與社會學理論進行探討。其著作包括《非宗教社會學》（Toward A Sociology of Irreligion）（Macmillan, 1971）、《社會行為的迷思》（The Myth of Social Action）（Cambridge University Press, 1996）、《血拼經驗》（The Shopping Experience）（Sage, 1997：與帕西‧福克（Pasi Falk）同為編者）等等。其他以消費為主題之書目資訊，詳見本書附錄。

為英國約克大學社會學教授，除了消費社會學，亦多有著述針對宗教社會學與社會學理論進行探討。其著作包括《非宗教社會學》（Toward A Sociology of Irreligion）（Macmillan, 1971）、《社會行為的迷思》（The Myth of Social Action）（Cambridge University Press, 1996）、《血拼經驗》（The Shopping Experience）（Sage, 1997：與帕西‧福克（Pasi Falk）同為編者）等等。其他以消費為主題之書目資訊，詳見本書附錄。

"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that "The New Science of Politics" would be a best-seller by political theory standards. Compressed within the Draconian economy of the six Walgreen lectures is a complete theory of man, society, and history, presented at the most profound and intellectual level. . . . Voegelin's [work] stands out in bold relief from much of what ...(展开全部)