安东尼・吉登斯（AnthonyGiddens）英国著名社会理论家和社会学家，是当代欧洲社会思想界中少有的大师级学者。他生于1938年，曾在赫尔大学、伦敦经济学院和剑桥大学学习，1963年在莱斯特大学授课，1970年转为剑桥皇家学院院士，现任剑桥大学教授。

The social sciences have long been based upon contrasts drawn between the militaristic societies of the past, and the capitalist or a industrial societies of the present. But how valid are such contrasts, given that the current era is one stamped by the impact of war and by the intensive development of sophisticated weaponry? In setting out to address this and similar questions...(展开全部)

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contem...(展开全部)

Through a series of incisive readings of leading theoretical figures of affirmationism -- Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou -- Benjamin Noys contests the tendency of recent theory to rely on affirmation, and especially an affirmative thinking of resistance. He reveals a profound current of negativity that allows theory to return to it...(展开全部)

迈克尔•哈特（1960— ），美国著名左翼理论家，杜克大学文学系教授，除有《德勒兹：哲学学徒期》等著作外，尤以与奈格里合著的《帝国》《诸众》和《大同世界》三部曲享誉当代思想界。 安东尼奥•奈格里（1933— ），意大利当代著名哲学家和左翼政治活动家，曾任帕多瓦大学教授，曾因激进政治行动入狱，后流亡法国，在巴黎第八大学和国际哲学学院任教。著有《超越马克思的马克思》《野蛮的反常》《颠覆的政治》以及与哈特合著的《帝国》三部曲等。

"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an eloquent, pointed, and personal look at the question of whether culture determines econom...(展开全部)

This collection explores eighteenth-century theories of international market competition that continue to be relevant for the twenty-first century. 'Jealousy of Trade' refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy that emerged when success in international trade became a matter of the military and political survival of nations. Today, it would be called 'e...(展开全部)

This collection explores eighteenth-century theories of international market competition that continue to be relevant for the twenty-first century. “Jealousy of trade” refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy that emerged when success in international trade became a matter of the military and political survival of nations. Today, it would be called “e...(展开全部)