Views American democracy, revolution, and capitalism in the light of Western history.

This book examines the development of the ideas of the new Austrian school from its beginnings in Vienna in the 1870s to the present. It focuses primarily on showing how the coherent theme that emerges from the thought of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig Lachmann, Israel Kirzner and a variety of new younger Austrians is an examination of the implications o...(展开全部)

阿伦·布洛克(Alan Bullock, 1914-2004)，英国著名历史学家，牛津大学原副校长。曾以《希特勒：暴政研究》一书享誉史学界，以针对教育与民主问题的“布洛克报告”闻名英国政坛。因其在学术与政治领域的杰出成就，他于1976年被英国皇室册封为终身贵族。

Each of the seven liberal arts -grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy arts is discussed in an individual essay written by a specialist in the field. These essays examine the establishment of the medieval concept of the arts in the post-classical writings of the Latin encyclopedists, briefly treat their history from the eighth through the Twelft...(展开全部)

Tracing the influence of ancient Greek sources on the development of republican theory in Europe and America, this book argues that an important tradition of republican thought, derived from the central texts of Greek moral and political philosophy, emerged in sixteenth century England. It contributed significantly to the ideological framework of the English Civil Wars and the ...(展开全部)

The Greek Tradition in Republic Thought completely rewrites the standard history of republican political theory. It excavates an identifiably Greek strain of republican thought which attaches little importance to freedom as non-dependence and sees no intrinsic value in political participation. This tradition's central preoccupations are not honour and glory, but happiness (euda...(展开全部)

Wiarda's scope, to say the least, is wide: he covers a broad range of Iberian and Latin American history in a rather compact text, swiftly and with a surprising and impressive amount of detail. It is a puzzle and a paradox, then, that he can at once provide many specifics concerning, say, Jos‚ Enrique Rod¢, the early 20th century Uruguayan writer, while at the same time insisti...(展开全部)

The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency ...(展开全部)

The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency ...(展开全部)

Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists of liberalism seem to have little to say. In Liberalism in Dark Times, Joshua Cherniss issues a rousing defense of the liberal tradition, drawing on a neglected strand of liberal thought. Assaults on liberalism—a politic...(展开全部)