约翰·杜威（John Dewey，1859—1952），美国著名哲学家、教育家，实用主义哲学的创始人之一，美国进步主义教育运动的代表，早期传播思想家。

本书是实用主义哲学家约翰*杜威对公众研究的重要著作。在本书中，杜威展现了自己对公众智慧的强烈信念，他认为，公众有能力通过公共智慧解决公共问题，从而达成有效的公民自治。杜威在本书中定义并阐释了“公众”、“政府”、“国家”、“民主政治”的概念。作为一位积极推动社会改革，倡言 民主政治理想的所谓自由主义派人士，杜威在本书中体现出的对当时美国社会和公众的认识，了解当时美国的社会对于审视今日中国之问题，包含深意的关照。 In The Public and Its Problems, a classic of social and political philosophy, John Dewey exhibits his strong faith in the potential of human intelligence to solve the public...(展开全部)

约翰·杜威（John Dewey，1859—1952），美国著名哲学家、教育家，实用主义哲学的创始人之一，美国进步主义教育运动的代表，早期传播思想家。

'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as relevant now as they have ever been. Arnold seeks to find out 'what culture really is, what good it can do, what is ou...(展开全部)

Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, and if it is really necessary. He contrasts culture, which he calls the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood...(展开全部)

James M. Buchanan himself speaks of “my little book, Cost and Choice.” Cost and Choice is indeed small in size, but, systematically, it holds quite a central place in Buchanan’s work. For the fundamental economic notion of “cost,” or “opportunity cost,” is intimately related to the Buchanan enterprise. As a subjectivist, Buchanan insists that opportunity cost exist only in the ...(展开全部)

Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the ritual act itself. This ambitious interdisciplinary study offers a convincing challenge to this understanding. The authors begin by seeking to explain how the conventional idea arose in the first place. They locate its origin in a post-Protestant and post-Enlightenment vision of ritual action that emphasizes ri...(展开全部)

格奥尔格·西美尔（Georg Simmel，1858-1918），德国著名社会学家、新康德学派哲学家，主要以关于社会学方法论的著作闻名。在学术研究中，他开创了许多不同的理论风格，把不同学科、不同方法论的视野融为一体，并借助哲学、心理学、社会学、经济学及神学的各种分析模式，研究了诸如宗教、货币经济、道德起源、群体自我保存等重要的文化现象。在西方，西美尔赢得了哲学、社会学和美学等领域的崇高声誉。卢卡奇把他称为那个时代最伟大的“过渡哲学家”，韦伯和哈贝马斯也曾对西美尔的研究给予了极高的评价。多年来，西美尔的著作已经被翻译成了多国文字。不仅在西方有一批西美尔的固定研究者，而且在亚洲也有庞大的西美尔研究队伍。

What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. Modern cult...(展开全部)

In the twentieth century, millions of people across the globe addressed each other as “comrade.” Now, among the left, it’s more common to hear talk of “allies.” In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary left: the substitution of political identity for a relationship of political belonging that must be built, sustained, and d...(展开全部)