Our modern age is preeminently an Age of Ideology. It is true that in some sense of the term, ideology has always been and always will be with us. There has never been a time when human behavior, including political behavior, has not been largely affected by the mental images, or stereotypes, through which men have grown accustomed to perceive and judge the world around them......(展开全部)

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives...(展开全部)

T IS hard to summon up much enthusiasm for politics these days. In Europe politicians are paralysed in the face of low growth and high unemployment. In the United States they are threatening to push the country off a fiscal cliff of their own devising. And in the Arab world spring has already turned into winter. Left-wingers rightly point out that the recently ascendant liberal...(展开全部)

Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether examining Lord Acton's dictum that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" or explicating John Stuart Mill's contenti...(展开全部)

Fredric Jameson's The Years of Theory introduces the major themes of French theory, including existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this effervescent period of thought in the context of its most significant political conjunctures, including the Liberation of Paris, t...(展开全部)

This unique study makes both a substantial contribution to our understanding of Roman political thought and a major contribution to the reception of Roman ideas about politics. The book reorients the discussion of the debt of early modern political thought from the familiar claims about republicanism and republican virtue to the rediscovery of a tradition of Roman constitutiona...(展开全部)

杰里·马勒毕业于哥伦比亚大学。现任教于美国天主教大学历史系。著有《亚当·斯密在他的时代和我们的时代》（Adam Smith in His Time and Ours，1995)，《精神与市场：现代欧洲思想中的资本主义》（The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought，2002，2003），《资本主义与犹太人》（Capitalism and the Jews，2010）。

At a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is distinctive about conservative social and political thought. It is an anthology with an argument, locating the origins of modern co...(展开全部)

This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdeveloped countries) and the effects of all these on the life of the British people.

格奥尔格·G.伊格尔斯(1926— )史学家和史学理论领域著名德裔学者，美国布法罗纽约州立大学教授，著有《对权威的崇拜：圣西门的政治哲学》(1958)、《德国的历史观》(1968)、((欧洲史学的新方向》(1975)、《哥廷根大学，1760一1800；及历史研究的转变》(1980)、(《20世纪的历史学：国际视、野中的批判性概述》(1993)等。