Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure has grown, neither its champions nor its detractors deny its central importance ...(展开全部)

作者简介 乔治•霍兰•萨拜因 (George Holland Sabine)，1880年出生于美国俄亥俄州迭顿城，1903年入康奈尔大学，1906年获博士学位。在斯坦福、康奈尔以及其他一些美国大学里任教，并为美国哲学协会、政治学协会的会员。作为“历史主义学派”的主要倡导者，在美国学术界享有盛誉。 修订者简介： 托马斯•兰敦•索尔森（Thomas Landon Thorson），1934年生于美国印第安纳州的拉博特，1956年入印第安纳大学，1960年获普林斯顿大学的博士学位，后在加拿大多伦多大学政治经济系任教，为西方政治哲学界的后起之秀。 译者简介： 邓正来，受聘于国内多所高校。曾任吉林大学法学院教授，博士生导师，吉林大学理论法学研究中心西方法哲学研究所所长，现任复旦大学社会科学高等研究院院长，复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院教授、博导。创办并主编《中...(展开全部)

There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago.While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable a...(展开全部)

Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is 'the religion of the end of religion'. In "The Disenchantment of the World", Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's cha...(展开全部)

Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is 'the religion of the end of religion'. In "The Disenchantment of the World", Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's cha...(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)

[英]伊安·汉普歇尔-蒙克，英国埃克塞特大学政治理论教席荣休教授，享誉国际的《政治思想史》（History of Political Thought）杂志创刊主编，其著述包括《现代政治思想史：从霍布斯到马克思》《比较视野中的概念史》 《政治理论中的概念和理性》等，作品多次被翻译为法文、德文、西班牙文、葡萄牙文、荷兰文、土耳其文和韩文。

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)