Through the lens of education reform and current education politics, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of theoretical and political considerations that offer up a new 'analytic of youth', one that posits not only the emergence of a new way to talk about youth but also a new language for understanding and critically engaging the politics that increasingl...(展开全部)

关于作者 亨利·A.吉鲁（Henry A Giroux）出生于1943年9月18日，著名社会批评家。美国批判教育学的创始理论家之一，以在公共教学法、文化研究、青年研究、高等教育、媒体研究和批判理论等方面的杰出成果而举世闻名。曾担任中学老师6年，先后在波士顿大学、迈阿密大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学任教。2005年起担任加拿大麦克马斯特大学英语和文化研究系全球电视网讲座教授和 “挖掘真相”董事会成员。吉鲁著述甚丰，有著作50多部，发表学术文章300多篇。著作有：《怀疑社会中的青年》(Palgrave, 2009)、《希望之后的政治：奥巴马及青年、种族和民主的危机》(Paradigm, 2010)、《黑暗之心：反恐战争中的虐童事件》(Paradigm, 2010)、《喧嚣的老鼠：迪斯尼和天真的终结》(与格蕾斯·帕洛克［Grace Pollock］合著, Row...(展开全部)

Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assumes a role that raises some of the most contentious political issues of our day. But do judges even have a role beyond deciding the disputes before them under law? What are the criteria for judging the justices who write...(展开全部)

帕沙·查特吉（1947—），印度政治思想家、诗人和剧作家。曾任加尔各答社会科学研究中心主任，现为美国哥伦比亚大学人类学客座教授。代表作有《民族主义思想与殖民地世界》《民族及其断片》《被治理者的政治》《帝国与民族》《政治社会的世系》等。查特吉是“庶民研究”学派的代表人物，是当代最有国际影响力的亚洲理论家之一。 译者：王行坤，文学博士，天津工业大学外国语学院讲师，美国杜克大学文学系访问学者（2015—2016）。主要研究方向为西方文化理论与批判理论。代表性译著有哈特、奈格里《大同世界》以及《酷：青春期的符号和意义》（合译）等。 王原，中国科学院博士研究生，主要译著有查尔斯·曼恩《1493》（合译）。

Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist known for his disciplinary range, builds on his theory of "political society" and reinforces its salience to contemporary political debate. Dexterously incorporating the concerns of South Asian studies, postcolonialism, the social sciences, and the humanities, Chatterjee broadly critiques the past three hundred years of western political...(展开全部)

Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist known for his disciplinary range, builds on his theory of "political society" and reinforces its salience to contemporary political debate. Dexterously incorporating the concerns of South Asian studies, postcolonialism, the social sciences, and the humanities, Chatterjee broadly critiques the past three hundred years of western political...(展开全部)

This is a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the place of science in democratic societies. In this successor to his pioneering "Science, Truth, and Democracy", renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher explores the challenges of integrating science, the most successful knowledge-generating system of all time, with the problems of democracy. Kitcher considers a variety of exa...(展开全部)

No study in the philosophy of science created such controversy in the seventies as Paul Feyerabend s Against Method. In this work, Feyerabend reviews that controversy, and extends his critique beyond the problem of scientific rules and methods, to the social function and direction of science today. In the first part of the book, he launches a sustained and irreverent attack on...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America a...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States...(展开全部)