本书是列奥 施特劳斯的晚期作品，通过对苏格拉底与阿里斯托芬这两位思想史人物的碰撞来理解“诗与哲学之争”这一古老问题，并重新提起古典政治哲学这一伟大传统。本书分为两个部分：第一部分解读《云》，第二部分解读所有的阿里斯托芬的谐剧。施特劳斯

自由市场大幅度地改进了世界各地民众的生活境遇，然而，那么多的知识分子又那么鄙视、厌恶甚至憎恨自由市场。为什么？哈耶克、诺齐克、弗里德曼、斯蒂格勒、布坎南等当代最杰出的政治哲学家和经济学家一齐来会诊这种奇怪的心理症状。

《政治现实主义:威廉姆斯政治哲学研究》内容简介：价值与权力竞争模式是威廉姆斯政治哲学考察的基本模式，基于这一考察模式，《政治现实主义:威廉姆斯政治哲学研究》合乎逻辑地推导出结束人类社会自然状态与战争状态分别需要满足的两个基本条件：最低限度的至上权力和最低限度的道德。我们分别称其为“霍布斯条件”与“洛克条件”。鉴于“洛克条件”只是满足了我们对于政治的基本合理的正当性要求，而如威廉姆斯所言，政治正当性又应当是分级的，则我们就完全有理由追问从“基本合理的正当性”要求到“充分合理的正当性”要求的可能性。这样，“霍布斯条件”与“洛克条件”以及从“基本合理的正当性”要求到“充分合理的正当性”要求，这两个追问方向分别构成我们政治哲学考察的两个基本空间。而由这两个考察空间所形成的政治哲学考量，对自由主义的政治哲学思考路径提出了严肃批评，从而使我们在传统的自由主义的政治哲学考量之外，获得看待政治问题的一个新路径。

“谁是马基雅维利？” 自以赛亚·柏林的名篇以来，这已然成为千人千面、聚讼不已的话题。此篇问世五十多年后，关于马基雅维利的认知仍旧在增长，例如左翼的马基雅维利阐释与共和主义的“马基雅维利时刻”。马基雅维利当然没有变，是我们自己在变。如何认识马基雅维利，好似现代人如何认识自我；又好似一把标尺，窥测我们对现代世界理解的量度。 本辑所组译文，涉猎西方古典著名思想家马基雅维利的文本研究、思想资源与思想遗产，另有两篇论文，分别重申列奥·施特劳斯式的论题“马基雅维利与基督教”，以及“马基雅维利的virtù”这个永恒的谜题。至于卷首长诗《金驴记》，系延请徐卫翔先生译出，当属所有马基雅维利著述中“最为复杂、最为矛盾、同时也是最为动人的篇章”。

Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt’s most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state of emergency and the power of the Reichspräsident in declaring it. Dictatorship, Schmitt argues, is a necessary legal institution in constitutional law and has been wrongly portrayed as just the arbitrary rule of a so-called dictator. Dictatorship is an essential book for understanding the work of Carl Schmitt and a major contribution to the modern theory of a democratic, constitutional state. And despite being written in the early part of the twentieth century, it speaks with remarkable prescience to our contemporary political concerns.

Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in "Philosophy and Real Politics", Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a skill that allows people to survive and pursue their goals. To understand politics is to understand the powers, motives, and concepts that people have and that shape how they deal with the problems they face in their particular historical situations. "Philosophy and Real Politics" both outlines a historically oriented, realistic political philosophy and criticizes liberal political philosophies based on abstract conceptions of rights and justice. The book is a trenchant critique of established ways of thought and a provocative call for change.