This book offers an answer to the question: what is public law? It suggests that an adequate explanation can only be given once public law is recognized to be an autonomous discipline, with its own distinctive methods and tasks. Martin Loughlin defends this claim by identifying the conceptual foundations of the public law in governing, politics, representation, sovereignty, con...(展开全部)

Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the functionalism popular among legal scholars, Ernest Weinrib advances the provocative idea that private law is an autonomous and no...(展开全部)

Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the functionalism popular among legal scholars, Ernest Weinrib advances the provocative idea that private law is an autonomous and no...(展开全部)

This book offers an answer to the question: what is public law? It suggests that an adequate explanation can only be given once public law is recognized to be an autonomous discipline, with its own distinctive methods and tasks. Martin Loughlin defends this claim by identifying the conceptual foundations of the public law in governing, politics, representation, sovereignty, con...(展开全部)

The Law of Peoples John Rawls This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems o...(展开全部)

The Law of Peoples John Rawls This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems o...(展开全部)

As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Net...(展开全部)

拉里•沃尔夫 (Larry Wolff)，1957 年生，美国文理科学院院士 (1997 年当选)，纽约大学教授，杰出的欧洲思想文化史专家，东欧史学科带头人。1979 年毕业于哈佛大学，1984 年获得斯坦福大学历史系博士学位，师从美国有名东欧史学者Wayne Vucinich (1913-2005)。毕业后曾任教于波士顿学院 (1986-2006)，现为纽约大学银色教授 (殊荣)，历史系正教授，兼任纽约大学弗洛伦萨校区负责人，欧洲与地中海研究中心原主任。研究方向集中于18-20 世纪中东欧思想文化史。