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)

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)

Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged by cognitive psychologists. The forces that create and constrain these populations help us understand so much that is puzzling in ...(展开全部)

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)

【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)

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)

The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles...(展开全部)

'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Adventure: far from being enclosed in the interiority of a subject, affect concerns an immediate participation in the events of the w...(展开全部)