弗雷德里克·沃特金斯（Frederick Watkins)：曾任耶鲁大学政治学教授，著作有《作为一种政治学概念的国家》、《意识形态的时代——从1750年到现在的政治思想》以及《德国共和体制下宪法紧急权力的挫败》等；《西方政治传统：近代自由主义之发展》是他的代表作。

Review By choosing to consider the rich interface between liberalism and philosophy (rather than, say, sociology or party organisation), Ryan has opened up a vast and exciting field for exploration and debate. The reader will find not only discussion of the manifold contributions of the great philosophers (biographical details where appropriate and available) but also insights ...(展开全部)

The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devo...(展开全部)

Linton C. Freeman就职于加州欧文分校数理行为科学研究所，1978年创办了杂志Social Networks. Linton C. Freeman, is a Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He began working in social network analysis in 1958 when he directed a structural study of community decision-making in Syracuse, New York. In 1...(展开全部)

Was Hobbes the first great architect of modern political philosophy? Highly critical of the classical tradition in philosophy, particularly Aristotle, Hobbes thought that he had established a new science of morality and politics. Devin Stauffer here delves into Hobbes's critique of the classical tradition, making this oft-neglected aspect of the philosopher's thought the basis ...(展开全部)

贾恩弗朗哥·波齐（1934-），出生于意大利，获得加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校社会学博士学位，先后在意大利、英国和美国等大学任教，期间在北美、欧洲、澳大利亚游历讲学，目前为意大利特伦托大学社会学教授。波齐的教学和研究兴趣主要为近现代国家理论、古典社会理论。代表性著作有《近代国家的发展》、《国家：本质、发展与前景》、《权力的形成》、《涂尔干》等。

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。

A history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Katrin...(展开全部)

In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Katrina Forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism—a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state—became dominant, and traces its ...(展开全部)

A history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by John Rawls (TM)s A Theory of Justice In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Ka...(展开全部)