Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contr...(展开全部)

Why America Failed shows how, from its birth as a nation of "hustlers" to its collapse as an empire, the tools of the country's expansion proved to be the instruments of its demise. Why America Failed is the third and most engaging volume of Morris Berman's trilogy on the decline of the American empire. In The Twilight of American Culture, Berman examined the internal factors o...(展开全部)

Why America Failed shows how, from its birth as a nation of "hustlers" to its collapse as an empire, the tools of the country's expansion proved to be the instruments of its demise Why America Failed is the third and most engaging volume of Morris Berman's trilogy on the decline of the American empire. In The Twilight of American Culture, Berman examined the internal fact...(展开全部)

In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass ...(展开全部)

In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass ...(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)

TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES and BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'This narrative of continent-wide chaos makes it easier to understand why order came to seem a supremely desirable objective in 1930s Europe, trumping freedom' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times 'Important and timely... obliges us to reconsider a period and a battlefront that has too often been neglected by histor...(展开全部)

TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES and BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'This narrative of continent-wide chaos makes it easier to understand why order came to seem a supremely desirable objective in 1930s Europe, trumping freedom' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times 'Important and timely... obliges us to reconsider a period and a battlefront that has too often been neglected by histor...(展开全部)

A growing number of political philosophers favour a view called liberal perfectionism. According to this view, liberal political morality is characterised by a commitment to helping individuals lead autonomous lives and making other valuable choices. In this book Jonathan Quong rejects this widely held view and offers an alternative account of liberal political morality. Quong ...(展开全部)

In this work, Ruth W. Grant presents a new approach to John Locke's familiar works. Taking the unusual step of relating Locke's "Two Treatises" to his "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," Grant establishes the unity and coherence of Locke's political arguments. She analyzes the "Two Treatises" as a systematic demonstration of liberal principles of right and power and grounds...(展开全部)