What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a bridge between approaches, periods, and areas, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty de...(展开全部)

Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, "Political Theology" develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationships among political leadership, the norms of the legal order, and the s...(展开全部)

安德列·拉克斯（André Laks），现任墨西哥泛美大学古代哲学教授，曾任法国里尔第三大学哲学系、普林斯顿大学古典学系、巴黎第四大学索邦大学哲学系古代哲学教授，主要研究领域为古希腊哲学及其接受史，尤其是前苏格拉底哲学、柏拉图的《法律》、亚里士多德哲学、古代哲学的学述传统等，近年来特别关注古典学的现代转型。代表作有洛布版九卷本《早期希腊哲学》（与G. W. Most合作）、《调解与胁迫：解读柏拉图的〈法律〉》《柏拉图的政治哲学》《历史、学述、真理：论亚里士多德、特奥弗拉斯特、前苏格拉底哲学》《阿波罗尼亚的第欧根尼（版本、翻译和评论）》，主编有《正义与慷慨：希腊政治哲学研究》（与M. Schofield合作）、《Derveni纸草研究》（与G. W. Most合作）、《亚里士多德Metaphysics B研究》（与Crubellier M.合作）。 莫...(展开全部)

In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four ...(展开全部)

In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four ...(展开全部)

In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant’s thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives a comprehensive yet accessible account of Kant’s political philosophy. Ripstein shows that Kant’s thought is organized around two central claims: first, that legal institutions are not simply responses to human limitation...(展开全部)

This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.L.A. Hart, the most important legal philosopher and one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. The book brings together contributions from eighteen of the world's foremost legal and political philosophers who explore the many subject...(展开全部)

In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism, jihadism, and fundamentalism mean in today’s world? Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this dialogue between a famous ath...(展开全部)

One of the lost classics of French philosophy, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information has never before been published in English. Raymond Ruyer – who was a major influence on Simondon and Deleuze, among others – originally wrote this book, the first philosophical work on the concept of information written by a philosopher, in 1954. At once critical and analytical, it is a de...(展开全部)