Brings together Scruton's best essays from many sources, arranging them thematically. The book has four sections: Language and Art, Writers in Context, Architecture, and Culture and Anarchy. Though the essays are diverse, certain themes are developed in particular and then in general ways, and there are several important essays on writers and critics, that contribute to the rea...(展开全部)

奥威尔原名埃里克阿瑟布莱尔(Eric Arthur Blair)，1903年生于印度。 1907年他举家迁回到英格兰。1917年，他进入伊顿公学。1921年后来到缅甸加入Indianimperial Police，1928年辞职。随后的日子里他贫病交加，此间他当过教师、书店店员，直到1940年，他成为New English Weekly 的小说评论员，他才有了稳定的收入养家糊口。1936年间，他访问了兰开夏郡和约克郡，1936年底，他来到西班牙参加西班牙内战，其间他受伤。二战期间(1940-1943)，他为BBS Eastern Service工作，并在此间写了大量政治和文学评论。1945年起他成为Observer的战地记者和Machester Evening News的固定撰稿人。 1945年，他出版了《动物农场》，1949年出版了《1984》...(展开全部)

奥威尔原名埃里克阿瑟布莱尔(Eric Arthur Blair)，1903年生于印度。 1907年他举家迁回到英格兰。1917年，他进入伊顿公学。1921年后来到缅甸加入Indianimperial Police，1928年辞职。随后的日子里他贫病交加，此间他当过教师、书店店员，直到1940年，他成为New English Weekly 的小说评论员，他才有了稳定的收入养家糊口。1936年间，他访问了兰开夏郡和约克郡，1936年底，他来到西班牙参加西班牙内战，其间他受伤。二战期间(1940-1943)，他为BBS Eastern Service工作，并在此间写了大量政治和文学评论。1945年起他成为Observer的战地记者和Machester Evening News的固定撰稿人。 1945年，他出版了《动物农场》，1949年出版了《1984》...(展开全部)

Rationalism in Politics, first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of 'reason' in rationalist politics. Oakeshott criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly 'scientific' or rationalistic princ...(展开全部)

Rationalism in Politics, first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of "reason" in rationalist politics. Oakeshott criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly "scientific" or rationalistic princ...(展开全部)

Rationalism in Politics, first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of 'reason' in rationalist politics. Oakeshott criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly 'scientific' or rationalistic princ...(展开全部)

Rationalism in Politics, first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of "reason" in rationalist politics. Oakeshott criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly "scientific" or rationalistic princ...(展开全部)

"The distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a `vast' or `gigantic' conspiracy as the motive force in historical events...The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of this conspiracy in apocalyptic terms--he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political or...(展开全部)

This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs. In The Paranoid Style in American Politics , acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and de...(展开全部)

理查德·霍夫施塔特（1916—1970） 出生于纽约布法罗市，哥伦比亚大学美国史教授，美国著名历史学家，20世纪中期美国最著名的公共知识分子之一，1956年、1964年两次获得普利策奖非虚构作品奖。主要研究美国政治史和思想史。主要作品有《美国政治传统及其缔造者》（1948）、《改革年代》（1955）、《美国生活中的反智主义》 （1963）及《美国政治中的偏执狂风格》（1964）等。 陶小路 社科译者，自由撰稿人，曾任《东方历史评论》编辑。译著有《事实改变之后》《日瓦戈的孩子》。