Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world - the political sphere dominated by men - and to denigrate the private world - the familial sphere dominated by women. She offers her own positive reconstruction of the public and the private in a feminist ...(展开全部)

让·爱尔斯坦（Jean Bethke Elshtain，1941-2013），美国艺术与科学学院院士，著名的评论家、政治哲学家和公共知识分子，在宗教学、政治学、伦理学等领域均享有盛名。一生所获荣誉无数，其中包括“古根海姆学者”，美国政治学会的“古德诺奖”。曾任芝加哥大学神学院社会与政治伦理学洛克菲勒讲席教授，同时也在芝加哥大学政治学系任教。著有 Women and War; Just War Theory; Democracy on Trial 等作品。《公共的男人，私人的女人》是她的代表作。

让·爱尔斯坦（Jean Bethke Elshtain，1941-2013），美国艺术与科学学院院士，著名的评论家、政治哲学家和公共知识分子，在宗教学、政治学、伦理学等领域均享有盛名。一生所获荣誉无数，其中包括“古根海姆学者”，美国政治学会的“古德诺奖”。曾任芝加哥大学神学院社会与政治伦理学洛克菲勒讲席教授，同时也在芝加哥大学政治学系任教。著有 Women and War; Just War Theory; Democracy on Trial 等作品。《公共的男人，私人的女人》是她的代表作。

彼得·阿克罗伊德（Peter Ackroyd）（1949—），当代英国文坛成就斐然的小说家、传记作家和诗人，1949年生于伦敦，先后就读于剑桥和耶鲁。22岁在耶鲁求学期间就完成了《新文化札记》（Notes for a New Culture： An Essay on Modernism），并于1976年正式出版。曾任《旁观者》（The Spectator）文学编辑多年，亦曾担任《泰晤士报》（The Times）首席书评家，1984年入选英国皇家文学学会成员。2003年，他因对英国文学所做出的杰出贡献而获得第三级英国爵位的头衔（Commander of the Order of the British Empire，常略作CBE）。2006年成为美国人文与科学院（又译美国艺术与科学院或美国文理科学院，American Academy of Arts a...(展开全部)

彼得·阿克罗伊德（Peter Ackroyd）（1949—），当代英国文坛成就斐然的小说家、传记作家和诗人，1949年生于伦敦，先后就读于剑桥和耶鲁。22岁在耶鲁求学期间就完成了《新文化札记》（Notes for a New Culture： An Essay on Modernism），并于1976年正式出版。曾任《旁观者》（The Spectator）文学编辑多年，亦曾担任《泰晤士报》（The Times）首席书评家，1984年入选英国皇家文学学会成员。2003年，他因对英国文学所做出的杰出贡献而获得第三级英国爵位的头衔（Commander of the Order of the British Empire，常略作CBE）。2006年成为美国人文与科学院（又译美国艺术与科学院或美国文理科学院，American Academy of Arts a...(展开全部)

How can we know? How can we attain justified belief? These traditional questions in epistemology have inspired philosophers for centuries. Now, in this exceptional work, Alvin Goldman, distinguished scholar and leader in the fields of epistemology and mind, approaches such inquiries as legitimate methods or "pathways" to knowledge. He examines the notion of private and public k...(展开全部)

From Eric Segal comes an unforgettable story of love....the drama of a father and the son he never knew... And a marriage that must stand the greatest test of all. Man, Woman And Child . Bob and Sheila Beckwith had everything: rewarding careers, two wonderful daughters, and a perfect marriage... almost perfect. for what Sheila didn't know was that Bob has once been unfaithful-...(展开全部)

From Eric Segal comes an unforgettable story of love....the drama of a father and the son he never knew... And a marriage that must stand the greatest test of all. Man, Woman And Child . Bob and Sheila Beckwith had everything: rewarding careers, two wonderful daughters, and a perfect marriage... almost perfect. for what Sheila didn't know was that Bob has once been unfaithful-...(展开全部)

"The Fall of Public Man" is a book in the great tradition of sociological scholarship. Sennett writes first of the tension between the public and private realms in which we live, arguing that different types of behavior and activity are appropriate in each. He argues that the barrier between these different realms has been eroded, and that this breakdown is so profound that pub...(展开全部)

Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political, and economic analysis dealing with how and why frustrations of private concerns lead to public involvement and public participation that eventually lead back to those private conce...(展开全部)