David Martin Jones examines how China has been portrayed in European and subsequently North American social and political thought and what, if anything, this depiction tells us about the character of this thought. Such a question immediately evokes the spectre of orientalism and subsequent chapters explore whether the identification of an orientalist project invalidates the kno...(展开全部)

Why hasn't real equality between the sexes resulted from the formal enfranchisement of women? Susan Moller Okin finds an answer to this question in the existing tradition of political theory, which requires the subordination of women. An exploration of the "functionalist" view of women in Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau and John Stuart Mill, this work, originally published in 1979, ...(展开全部)

A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book: * traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century * focuses on individual thinker...(展开全部)

谢尔登·S.沃林 谢尔登·S.沃林，美国普林斯顿大学政治学荣誉教授，先后在奥伯林学院、加利福尼亚大学伯克利、圣克鲁斯及洛杉矶诸分校、普林顿大学、康乃尔大学和牛津大学执教政治学理论凡四十年之久。他还是《民主》期刊的创办主笔。第一版《政治与构想》荣获利平科特政治理论奖。他的另一部著作《两个世界之间的托克维尔》于2003年获美国政治学会颁发的伊斯顿奖。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 辛亨复 辛亨复，籍贯江苏无锡，生于上海。华东师范大学英语语言文学学士，美国博伊西州立大...(展开全部)

Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. Substantially expanded for republication in 2004, it is bot...(展开全部)

谢尔登·S.沃林 谢尔登·S.沃林，美国普林斯顿大学政治学荣誉教授，先后在奥伯林学院、加利福尼亚大学伯克利、圣克鲁斯及洛杉矶诸分校、普林顿大学、康乃尔大学和牛津大学执教政治学理论凡四十年之久。他还是《民主》期刊的创办主笔。第一版《政治与构想》荣获利平科特政治理论奖。他的另一部著作《两个世界之间的托克维尔》于2003年获美国政治学会颁发的伊斯顿奖。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 辛亨复 辛亨复，籍贯江苏无锡，生于上海。华东师范大学英语语言文学学士，美国博伊西州立大...(展开全部)

Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. Substantially expanded for republication in 2004, it is bot...(展开全部)

This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's "Politics and Vision" inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. This new edition retains intact the original ten chapters about political thinkers from Plato to Mill, and adds seven chapters about theorists from Mar...(展开全部)

This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's "Politics and Vision" inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. This new edition retains intact the original ten chapters about political thinkers from Plato to Mill, and adds seven chapters about theorists from Mar...(展开全部)

The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment - all these have been credited to the "early modern" period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. ...(展开全部)