A major contribution to contemporary social theory. Not only does it provide a compelling critique of some of the main perspectives in 20th century philosophy and social science, but it also presents a systematic synthesis of the many themse which have preoccupied Habermas for thirty years. --Times Literary Supplement

"One of the broadest, most comprehensive, elaborate and intensely theoretical works in social theory. Social theory and philosophy may never be the same again." (Philosophy and Social Criticism)

Do social classes really exist? Is disinterested action really possible? What do the family, the church, and the intellectual world have in common? Can morality be founded on hypocrisy? What is the "subject" of action? In this new volume, one of France's foremost social thinkers of our time responds to these major questions and to others, thus tracing the outlines of a work tha...(展开全部)

Engaging Reason offers a penetrating examination of a set of fundamental questions about human thought and action. In these tightly argued and interconnected essays Joseph Raz examines the nature of normativity, reason, and the will; the justification of reason; and the objectivity of value. He argues for the centrality, but also demonstrates the limits, of reason in action and...(展开全部)

1942年生于西班牙，1979年起任教于加州大学伯克利校区社会学与城市和区域规划学系，曾在巴黎大学任教12年，还曾任教与客座访问于马德里、智利、蒙特利尔、坎皮纳斯、卡拉卡斯、墨西哥、日内瓦、哥本哈根、威斯康星、波士顿、南加州、香港、新加坡、台湾、阿姆斯特丹、莫斯科、新西伯利亚、东京／一桥以及巴塞罗那等地。已出版了20余种著作，包括1989的《信息化城市》，古根海默（Guggenheim）会员，殴盟执委会委员。曾获得莱特・米尔斯奖与罗伯特和海伦・林德奖。

Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In "The Constitution of Society" he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in...(展开全部)

安东尼•吉登斯（Anthony Giddens），男爵，英国社会学家，以社会结构理论与当代社会的本体论而闻名，被认为是当代社会学领域中有卓越贡献的学者之一。学术成就主要体现在以下几个方面：对以马克思、涂尔干、韦伯等为代表的经典社会学家思想的反思；对以结构主义、功能主义和解释社会学等为代表的现代社会学研究方法的反思；对社会学研究方法的重建，提出了著名的“结构化理论”；现代性理论范式的提出和现代性发展的反思。曾任伦敦经济学院院长，现任该校社会学系荣休教授。他的突出成就很多，其中包括与赫尔德和汤普森共同创办的Polity出版社，该社现已成为社会科学方面的主要出版机构。吉登斯与英国前首相、工党领袖布莱尔提倡的“第三条路”政策也影响了英国甚至其他国家的政策。其代表性著作包括《现代性与自我认同》、《第三条道路》、《民族—国家与暴力》等。

Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences--from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key concepts championed by the behavioral disciplines. Herbert Gintis sho...(展开全部)

In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius. 戈达德的著作自1951年问世以来即被奉为莎士比亚研究经典，历来受到莎学专家顶礼膜拜，至今其魅力不减。