Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas s...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining. Featuring new material on evolution and information transfer, and including recent developments in game theory and evolution literature, his bo...(展开全部)

In this pithy and highly readable book, Brian Skyrms, a recognised authority on game and decision theory, investigates traditional problems of the social contract in terms of evolutionary dynamics. Game theory is skilfully employed to offer new interpretations of a wide variety of social phenomena, including justice, mutual aid, commitment, convention and meaning. The author es...(展开全部)

MIT Press Series On Economic Learning and Social Evolution --- In Volume 1 of Game Theory and the Social Contract, Ken Binmore restated the problems of moral and political philosophy in the language of game theory. In Volume 2, Just Playing, he unveils his own controversial theory, which abandons the metaphysics of Immanuel Kant for the naturalistic approach to morality of Davi...(展开全部)

法国有名思想家、哲学家、教育家、文学家让·卢梭的经典作品《社会契约论》中主权在民的思想，是现代制度的基石，深刻地影响了欧洲的革命运动和英属北美殖民地的独立战争。《社会契约论》一次提出了“天赋人权和主权在民的思想”。开头就提出“人是生而自由的，但却无往不在枷锁之中”。它刚一问世就遭到了止。卢梭本人也被迫流亡到英国。但《社会契约论》所提倡的理论却很快风靡全世界。它引发了震惊世界的法国大革命。法国国家格言“自由、平等、博爱”便来自《社会契约论》。1789年法国国民代表大会通过的《人权宣言》中“社会的目的是为大众谋福利的”、“统治权属于人民”等内容充分体现了《社会契约论》的精神。

Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book "Le Contrat Naturel," Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants.World history is often referred to as the story of human conflict. Those struggles that are seen as our history mus...(展开全部)

Rousseau and Geneva reconstructs the main aspects of Genevan socio-economic, political and religious thought in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this way Dr Rosenblatt effectively contextualizes the development of Rousseau's thought from the First Discourse through to the Social Contract. Over time Rousseau has been adopted as a French thinker, but this adoption obs...(展开全部)

In this compelling work, Ariella Azoulay reconsiders the political and ethical status of photography. Describing what she calls "the civil contract of photography," she gives an account of the power relations that sustain and make possible photographic meanings. Azoulay argues that anyone--even a stateless person--who addresses others through photographs or is addressed by phot...(展开全部)

米努什·沙菲克（Minouche Shafik） 伦敦政治经济学院校长，横跨学界和公共政策领域的知名经济学家。曾任职于世界银行长达15年，是世界银行有史以来最年轻的副行长。2008—2011年担任英国国际发展部常务秘书，2011—2014年担任国际货币基金组织副总裁，2014—2017年担任英国央行副行长，于2017年开始担任伦敦政治经济学院的校长。此外，她还曾任教于乔治敦大学和宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院。她于2015年获得了大英帝国司令勋章。