Product Description Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is one of the most important philosophical works of the early modern period. In it Spinoza discusses at length the historical circumstances of the composition and transmission of the Bible, demonstrating the fallibility of both its authors and its interpreters. He argues that free enquiry is not only consistent...(展开全部)

约翰·罗尔斯，美国哲学家与政治理论家，1921年出生于巴尔的摩，1950年获普林斯顿大学博士学位，先后执教于普林斯顿大学、康奈尔大学、麻省理工学院和哈佛大学，担任过美国政治与社会哲学家协会主席以及美国哲学协会东部地区主席，并荣获1999年度美国国家人文科学奖章。罗尔斯的哲学捍卫了洛克、卢梭和康德所开创的社会契约传统，复活了人们对于系统政治理论的兴趣，其核心信念是政治权利与基本公民自由的神圣性。他的主要著作还有《正义论》（1971）、《人民的法律》（1999）和《作为公平的正义》（2001）等。 本书继续并修正了罗尔斯在《正义论》中所提出的公正观念，从根本上改变了对它的哲学阐释。在《正义论》中，罗尔斯假定在“秩序良好的社会”里，存在着相对稳定和同质的基本道德信念，人们对于什么是善的生活有着广泛一致意见。然而在现代民主社会中，互不相容、无法调和的宗教、...(展开全部)

Imagine each family as a kind of little factory--a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decis...(展开全部)

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing one-self for the state - a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared. George Schwab's introduction to his translation of the 1932 German edition highlights Schmitt's intel...(展开全部)

The systematically revised third edition of the leading text on approaches and methods in political science features a considerable internatizationization in both the team of contributors and the range of coverage and examples. About half the chapters are entirely new and the rest are substantially revised and updated.

In the revised edition of this comprehensive overview of political/economic thought, political theory, sociology and philosophy are integrated with political theory. Clark offers an introduction to the method and history of political eocnomy, along with comparative studies of classical liberalism, radicalism, conservatism and modern liberalism. Various issues such as the role o...(展开全部)

Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Taking as his starting point the collapse of the medieval world, Gillespie argues that from the very beginning moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and ...(展开全部)