"The Two Faces of American Freedom" boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday d...(展开全部)

"The Two Faces of American Freedom" boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday d...(展开全部)

Justice is a human virtue that is at once unconditional and conditional. Under favourable circumstances, we can be motivated to act justly by the belief that we must live up to what justice requires, irrespective of whether we benefit from doing so. But, our will to act justly is subject to conditions. We find it difficult to exercise the virtue of justice when others regularly...(展开全部)

Justice is a human virtue that is at once unconditional and conditional. Under favourable circumstances, we can be motivated to act justly by the belief that we must live up to what justice requires, irrespective of whether we benefit from doing so. But, our will to act justly is subject to conditions. We find it difficult to exercise the virtue of justice when others regularly...(展开全部)

In Two Faces of Liberalism, John Gray argues that liberal thought has always contained two incompatible philosophies. In one, liberalism is a theory of a universal rational consensus, which enables the achievement of the best way of life for all humankind. In the other, liberalism is the project of seeking terms of peaceful coexistence between different regimes and ways of life...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner takes freedom not as a timeless truth but as a value whose meaning and scope have been contested throughout American history. His sweeping narrative shows freedom to have been...(展开全部)

埃里克·方纳（Eric Foner）是美国哥伦比亚大学德威特·克林顿历史学讲座教授，当代美国最有影响力的历史学家之一。自1970年发表其成名作《自由土地、自由劳力、自由人：内战前共和党的意识形态》起，方纳在美国内战史、重建史、黑人史和政治文化史等领域中著述甚丰，成就显著。重要著述包括《汤姆・潘恩与革命时期的美国》（1976）、《内战时期的政治与意识形态》（1980）、《除了自由一无所有：黑人解放及其遗产》（1983）、《重建：美利坚未完成的革命（1863－1877）》（1988，该书获得象征美国史学界最高荣誉的班克罗夫特奖和其他学术大奖）、《美国自由的故事》（1998）和《谁拥有历史：在变化的世界中重新思考过去》（2002）。方纳是美国艺术与科学院院上和英国皇家科学院通讯院士，并分别在1993年和2000年当选为美国历史学家组织《OAH）和美国历史学...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner takes freedom not as a timeless truth but as a value whose meaning and scope have been contested throughout American history. His sweeping narrative shows freedom to have been...(展开全部)

埃里克·方纳（Eric Foner）是美国哥伦比亚大学德威特·克林顿历史学讲座教授，当代美国最有影响力的历史学家之一。自1970年发表其成名作《自由土地、自由劳力、自由人：内战前共和党的意识形态》起，方纳在美国内战史、重建史、黑人史和政治文化史等领域中著述甚丰，成就显著。重要著述包括《汤姆・潘恩与革命时期的美国》（1976）、《内战时期的政治与意识形态》（1980）、《除了自由一无所有：黑人解放及其遗产》（1983）、《重建：美利坚未完成的革命（1863－1877）》（1988，该书获得象征美国史学界最高荣誉的班克罗夫特奖和其他学术大奖）、《美国自由的故事》（1998）和《谁拥有历史：在变化的世界中重新思考过去》（2002）。方纳是美国艺术与科学院院上和英国皇家科学院通讯院士，并分别在1993年和2000年当选为美国历史学家组织《OAH）和美国历史学...(展开全部)