Fredric Jameson's The Years of Theory introduces the major themes of French theory, including existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this effervescent period of thought in the context of its most significant political conjunctures, including the Liberation of Paris, t...(展开全部)

Our modern age is preeminently an Age of Ideology. It is true that in some sense of the term, ideology has always been and always will be with us. There has never been a time when human behavior, including political behavior, has not been largely affected by the mental images, or stereotypes, through which men have grown accustomed to perceive and judge the world around them......(展开全部)

格奥尔格·G.伊格尔斯(1926— )史学家和史学理论领域著名德裔学者，美国布法罗纽约州立大学教授，著有《对权威的崇拜：圣西门的政治哲学》(1958)、《德国的历史观》(1968)、((欧洲史学的新方向》(1975)、《哥廷根大学，1760一1800；及历史研究的转变》(1980)、(《20世纪的历史学：国际视、野中的批判性概述》(1993)等。

A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval. The first comprehensive ...(展开全部)

安东尼·帕戈登，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校政治科学与历史系特聘教授。曾担任牛津大学默顿学院研究员、伦敦沃堡研究所高级研究员、佛罗伦萨欧洲大学研究所历史学教授、剑桥大学国王学院思想史准教授和研究员、约翰·霍普金斯大学哈里·布莱克历史教授。近期出版的著作包括《两个世界的战争：2500年来东方与西方的竞逐》和《启蒙运动以及它为何仍然重要》。曾在《新共和》、《国家利益》、《纽约时报》、《洛杉矶时报》、《国家报》（西班牙），《24小时太阳报》（意大利）、《伦敦书评》和《时代文学增刊》上发表多篇文章。

Throughout human history, empires have been far more constant and widespread, and the source of far more anguished political speculation, than nation states have ever been. But despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an empire is. The Burdens of Empire strives to offer not on...(展开全部)

T IS hard to summon up much enthusiasm for politics these days. In Europe politicians are paralysed in the face of low growth and high unemployment. In the United States they are threatening to push the country off a fiscal cliff of their own devising. And in the Arab world spring has already turned into winter. Left-wingers rightly point out that the recently ascendant liberal...(展开全部)

Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether examining Lord Acton's dictum that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" or explicating John Stuart Mill's contenti...(展开全部)

Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500. In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the d...(展开全部)