Three prominent social thinkers discuss how modern society is undercutting its formations of class, stratum, occupations, sex roles, the nuclear family, and more. Reflexive modernization, or the way one kind of modernization undercuts and changes another, has wide ranging implications for contemporary social and cultural theory, as this provocative book demonstrates.

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous...(展开全部)

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous...(展开全部)

David Ernest Apter (December 18, 1924 – May 4, 2010) was an American political scientist and sociologist. He was Henry J Heinz Professor Emeritus of Comparative Political and Social Development and Senior Research Scientist at Yale University. He was born on December 18, 1924. He taught at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago (where he was the Executive Secretary ...(展开全部)

Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script changed-first from cuneiform to a modified Aramaic, then to Arabic-from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries it served a broader geographical area than any language in world history. It was the primary language of admini...(展开全部)

This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted in the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in the Middle East, the Ikhanate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was intimately tied to the character of its founder, Chinggis Khan, whose reign served as an idealized model for the exercise of legitimat...(展开全部)

Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics. provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological study of art; examines the central debates of social theorists and sociol...(展开全部)

迈克尔·奥克肖特，1901年生，就学于剑桥大学和玛堡大学。1950年任伦敦经济政治学院系主任，卒于1990年。二十世纪最重要的政治哲学家、保守主义思想家之一。

丸山真男（1914-1996年），日本著名政治思想史学者，东京大学名誉教授，并获美国哈佛大学、普林斯顿大学分别授予名誉法学博士和名誉文学博士。其政治学被日本学界称为“丸山政治学”。著有《日本政治思想史研究》（1952年）、《现代政治的思想与行动》（1956-1957年）、《日本的思想》（1961年）、《忠诚与叛逆——转型期日本的精神状态》（1992年）等。 陈力卫，现为日本成城大学教授，译有《风土》（和辻哲郎著），列入商务印书馆“日本学术文库”出版。他同时为“日本学术文库”主编之一。