政治哲学
Political Thought and History 豆瓣
作者: J. G .A. Pocock Cambridge University Press 2009 - 2
The history of political thought : a methodological inquiry
Working on ideas in time
Verbalizing a political act : towards a politics of speech
Political ideas as historical events : political philosophers as historical actors
The reconstruction of discourse : towards the historiography of political thought
The concept of a language and the métier d'historien : some considerations on practice
Texts as events : reflections on the history of political thought
Quentin Skinner : the history of politics and the politics of history
The origins of study of the past : a comparative approach
Time, institutions and action : an essay on traditions and their understanding
The historian as political actor in polity, society and academy
The politics of history : the subaltern and the subversive
The politics of historiography.
Protagoras 豆瓣
作者: Plato / Michael Frede 译者: Karen Bell Hackett Publishing Co, Inc 1992 - 6
In addition to its interest as one of Plato's most brilliant dramatic masterpieces, the Protagoras presents a vivid picture of the crisis of fifth century Greek thought, in which traditional values and conceptions of humanity were subjected to criticism of the Sophists and to the far more
radical criticism of Socrates. The dialogue deals with many themes which are central to the ethical theories which Plato developed under the influence of Socrates, notably, the nature of human excellence, the relation of knowledge to right conduct, and the place of pleasure in the good life. This
revised edition includes a new Preface and Introduction, as well as numerous changes to the translation and commentary.
Machiavelli 豆瓣
作者: Quentin Skinner Oxford University Press 2001 - 1
Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner focuses on three major works, "The Prince", "the Discourses", and "The History of Florence", and distils from them an introduction to Machiavelli's doctrines of exemplary clarity.
2013年9月8日 已读
短小精悍的介绍,也是Past Master Series里面声蜚于外的一本。最后一句 或许就是作者的评价 --"no epitaph can match so great a name."
历史 思想史 政治哲学 政治思想史
Precarious Life 豆瓣 谷歌图书 Goodreads
作者: Judith Butler Verso 2006 - 7 其它标题: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
This profound appraisal of post-9/11 America considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from the attack on the US, and US retaliation. Judith Butler critiques the use of violence that has emerged as a response to loss, and argues that the dislocation of first-world privilege offers instead a chance to imagine a world in which that violence might be minimized and in which interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for a global political community. Butler considers the means by which some lives become grief-worthy, while others are perceived as undeserving of grief or even incomprehensible as lives. She discusses the political implications of sovereignty in light of the prisoners in Guantánamo Bay. She argues against the anti-intellectual current of contemporary US patriotism and the power of censorship during times of war. Finally, she takes on the question of when and why anti-semitism is leveled as a charge against those who voice criticisms of the Israeli state. She counters that we have a responsibility to speak out against both Israeli injustices and anti-semitism, and argues against the rhetorical use of the charge of anti-semitism to quell public debate.
Politics 豆瓣
作者: Kenneth Minogue Oxford University Press 2000 - 6
In this provocative but balanced essay, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He prompts us to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order in our society, whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twenty-first century.
2016年2月9日 已读
行文风格更偏向于“政论”而非学术行文...粗略总结:古希腊,理性议政,制度轮回论;古罗马,荣耀追求;中世纪,一元政治至二元政治(上帝与凯撒之间);文艺复新至近代,霍布斯于主权的定义,洛克用自然权利节制主权...
vsi 政治哲学
Eichmann in Jerusalem 豆瓣 Goodreads
9.5 (10 个评分) 作者: Hannah Arendt Penguin Classics 2006 - 9
Hannah Arendt’s authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
2016年12月5日 已读
Arendt’s style of writing is peculiar, perhaps due to its origin as a report for the New Yorker. But the sheer weight of her argument rendered it inadequate or even offending to be interspersed between investigative reports. I would suggest first reading the last three chapters of the book.
历史 政治哲学
The Closing of the American Mind 豆瓣
作者: Allan Bloom / Saul Bellow Simon & Schuster 1988 - 5
Publisher Comments:
The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.
Synopsis:
The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.
Contents
Foreword by Saul Bellow
Preface
Introduction: Our Virtue
PART ONE. STUDENTS
The Clean Slate
Boob
Music
Relationships
Self-Centeredness
Equality
Race
Sex
Separateness
Divorce
Love
Eros
PART TWO. NIHILISM, AMERICAN STYLE
The German Connection
Two Revolutions and Two States of Nature
The Serf
Creativity
Culture
Values
The Nietzscheanization of the Left or Vice Versa
Our Ignorance
PART THREE. THE UNIVERSITY
From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede
Tocqueville on Democratic Intellectual Life
The Relation Between Thought and Civil Society
The Philosophic Experience
The Enlightenment Transformation
Swift's Doubts
Rousseau's Radicalization and the German University
The Sixties
The Student and the University
Liberal Education
The Decomposition of the University
The Disciplines
Conclusion
Index
2017年8月14日 已读
布鲁姆的诉求更似复归洪堡传统;某种意义上,布鲁姆此书并非保守派所需。将此书立论推至极致,保守派的“半理性”言论亦为作者所恶。为何?因为那些皆是二道贩子之二道贩子言论。
政治哲学 美国
What Is Populism? 豆瓣 Goodreads
Was ist Populismus?: Ein Essay
7.9 (8 个评分) 作者: Jan-Werner Müller University of Pennsylvania Press 2016 - 8
Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is it a threat to democracy? Who are "the people" anyway and who can speak in their name? These questions have never been more pressing.
In this groundbreaking volume, Jan-Werner Müller argues that at populism's core is a rejection of pluralism. Populists will always claim that they and they alone represent the people and their true interests. Müller also shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, populists can govern on the basis of their claim to exclusive moral representation of the people: if populists have enough power, they will end up creating an authoritarian state that excludes all those not considered part of the proper "people." The book proposes a number of concrete strategies for how liberal democrats should best deal with populists and, in particular, how to counter their claims to speak exclusively for "the silent majority" or "the real people."
Analytical, accessible, and provocative, What Is Populism? is grounded in history and draws on examples from Latin America, Europe, and the United States to define the characteristics of populism and the deeper causes of its electoral successes in our time.
2019年8月22日 已读
情绪,社会经济与政治主张都不能提供理解民粹主义的内在逻辑。多部论述美国民粹主义的书籍已经写明了民粹政治家们的政治主张与“民粹主义者”的经济利益是背离的。因此无法用政治主张来理解民粹主义的内在逻辑,如Hochschild则勾勒了美国民粹主义政治主张的背后语境来规避这一矛盾。本书作者则更抽象的使用了moralistic imagniation of politics,从政治哲学的内在路径来定义和理解民粹。情绪或社会经济(external shock)都可是民粹的肇因,但仅此而已。民粹主义的必要条件(而非定义)在作者看来是anti-pluralism和anti-elitism (or anti-establishment),以及谁是人民...... 最后作者各种黑???
政治 政治哲学 政治学 民粹主义
The Stillborn God 豆瓣
作者: Mark Lilla Vintage 2008 - 9
A brilliant account of religion's role in the political thinking of the West, from the Enlightenment to the close of World War II.
The wish to bring political life under God's authority is nothing new, and it's clear that today religious passions are again driving world politics, confounding expectations of a secular future. In this major book, Mark Lilla reveals the sources of this age-old quest-and its surprising role in shaping Western thought. Making us look deeper into our beliefs about religion, politics, and the fate of civilizations, Lilla reminds us of the modern West's unique trajectory and how to remain on it. Illuminating and challenging, The Stillborn God is a watershed in the history of ideas.
The Conservative Sensibility 豆瓣
作者: George F. Will Hachette Books 2019 - 6
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, a monumental new reflection on American conservatism, examining how the Founders’ belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition–one that now finds itself under threat.
For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America’s civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher. Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, of majority rule are bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events in America.
The Founders’ vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution, gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government, religious freedom, and in human virtue and dignity ushered in two centuries of American prosperity. Now, as Will shows, conservatism is under threat–both from progressives and elements inside the Republican Party. America has become an administrative state, just as destructive trends have overtaken family life and higher education. Semi-autonomous executive agencies wield essentially unaccountable power. Congress has failed in its duty to exercise its legislative powers. And the executive branch has slipped the Constitution’s leash.
In the intellectual battle between the vision of Founding Fathers like James Madison, who advanced the notion of natural rights that pre-exist government, and the progressivism first advanced by Woodrow Wilson, the Founders have been losing. It’s time to reverse America’s political fortunes.
Expansive, intellectually thrilling, and written with the erudite wit that has made Will beloved by millions of readers, The Conservative Sensibility is an extraordinary new book from one of America’s most celebrated political writers.
2019年9月14日 已读
Quite ambivalent about this book. It really does not try to give a coherent and concise account of conservatism in the US. Really about the sensibilities (or drivels?) of an old conservative. Full of sound bites and may be deep...
政治 政治哲学 美国
Why Read Marx Today? 豆瓣
作者: Jonathan Wolff Oxford University Press 2003 - 10
'All too often, Karl Marx has been regarded as a demon or a deity - or a busted flush. This fresh, provocative, and hugely enjoyable book explains why, for all his shortcomings, his critique of modern society remains forcefully relevant even in the twenty-first century.' Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing left to say to us. Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seemed, all reason to take Marx seriously. The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance: it was taken to be the fall of Marx as well as of Marxist politics and economics. This timely book argues that we can detach Marx the critic of current society from Marx the prophet of future society, and that he remains the most impressive critic we have of liberal, capitalist, bourgeois society. It also shows that the value of the 'great thinkers' does not depend on their views being true, but on other features such as their originality, insight, and systematic vision. On this account too Marx still richly deserves to be read.
2019年8月20日 已读
每个“哲人”的Marx都不一样. Singer的马克思是哲人王(a la Popper),Wolff的Marx则是哲人... 马克思的经济理论部分(古典经济学家的集大成者之一)重要之处在于点出资本主义模式下的生产分工是不均的,但剩余价值理论却不能解释不均的分配 (经济思想史可参考Blaug或Groenewegen的思想史书籍)。
哲学 政治哲学 政治学 马克思主义
Marx 豆瓣
作者: Terrell Carver Polity 2018 - 1
2019年8月21日 已读
Marx as a political actor in historical perspective... This is probably more of an interest to those who see Marx as a historical figure rather than its isms... So theoretical treatment is (relatively) lacking in this "introductory" book.
哲学 政治哲学 政治学 马克思主义
The Communist Manifesto 豆瓣 Goodreads Goodreads
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
7.8 (5 个评分) 作者: Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels 译者: Samuel Moore Penguin 2004 - 6
Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom.
This new edition includes an extensive introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones, Britain's leading expert on Marx and Marxism, providing a complete course for students of The Communist Manifesto, and demonstrating not only the historical importance of the text, but also its place in the world today.
明夷待访录 豆瓣
作者: 黄宗羲 中华书局 1981
2020年4月19日 已读
问题是永恒的问题,答案不一定永恒但是是勇敢的答案。三代以上无乱,三代以下无治,现在再读,也只叹明夷待访,盼“向后二十年交入「大壮」,始得一治,则三代之盛犹未绝望也”。“有亡国,有亡天下,亡国与亡天下奚辨?曰:易姓改号谓之亡国。仁义充塞,而至于率兽食人,人将相食,谓之亡天下。魏晋人之清谈,何以亡天下?是孟子所谓杨、墨之言,至于使天下无父无君,而入于禽兽者也。”
中国 中国历史 历史 哲学 思想史
梁启超与中国思想的过渡(1890-1907) 豆瓣
作者: 张灏 译者: 崔志海 / 葛夫平 江苏人民出版社 1995 - 1
《梁启超与中国思想的过渡(1890-1907)》一反“西方的冲击”这一研究模式存在的偏颇,强调了中国文化传统在面临外部冲击时所具有的活力。作者张灏通过支1890-1907年过渡时代梁启超思想的研究,详细考察了中西思想在很多领域内的相互影响,勾画出它们在梁启超思想发展中所起的作用指出梁启超塑造的一代“新民”,与现代中国之间的联系,要比五四“新青年”更具有代表性。《梁启超与中国思想的过渡(1890-1907)》不愧为继李文森之后国外研究梁启超思想的又一力作。