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This book is a treasure house of Italian philosophy. Narrating and explaining the history of Italian philosophers from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, the author identifies the specificity, peculiarity, originality, and novelty of Italian philosophical thought in the men and women of the Renaissance. The vast intellectual output of the Renaissance can be traced back to a single philosophical stream beginning in Florence and fed by numerous converging human factors. This work offers historians and philosophers a vast survey and penetrating analysis of an intellectual tradition which h

Intro -- Contents -- List of Images and Boxes -- Boxes -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Note on Romanization -- Maps of Korea and East Asia -- Brief Chronology of Korean Political History -- Introduction -- 1: Goguryeo and Early Korea -- BATTLE OF SALSU RIVER, 612 -- ANCIENT KOREA AND GOGURYEO -- RISE AND FALL OF GOGURYEO -- THE PULL OF ANCIENT HISTORY -- 2: Queen Seondeok and Silla's Unification -- SILLA'S DISPATCH OF AN EMBASSY TO GOGURYEO, 642 -- BUDDHISM AND POWER -- LEGENDS OF THE UNIFICATION -- SILLA'S "WINNING" FEATURES -- 3: The Maturation and Decline of Unified Silla -- ASSASSINATION OF JANG BOGO, 846 -- JANG BOGO, CHOE CHIWON, AND UNIFIED SILLA SOCIETY -- SILLA AND NORTHEAST ASIA -- LOCAL STRONGMEN AND THE END OF SILLA -- 4: Elements of Goryeo's Founding -- THE ISSUANCE OF WANG GEON'S "TEN INJUNCTIONS," 943 -- "GREAT FOUNDER OF KOREA" -- VISION OF THE TEN INJUNCTIONS -- LEGACY -- 5: Religion and Regionalism in the Goryeo Order -- THE OUTBREAK OF THE MYOCHEONG REBELLION, 1135 -- THE INSTITUTIONALIZED INFLUENCE OF THE BUDDHIST CLERGY -- MYOCHEONG'S REBELLION -- AFTERMATH -- 6: Survival and Adaptation in the Mongol Overlord Period -- THE MARRIAGE OF LADY GI TO THE YUAN EMPEROR, 1340 -- THE MONGOL CONQUEST -- GORYEO WOMEN IN THE MONGOL EMPIRE -- 7: Competing Views of the Goryeo-Joseon Transition -- YI BANGWON'S PURGE OF JEONG DOJEON, 1398 -- JEONG DOJEON: FROM MASTERMIND TO POLITICAL POWER -- A RENAISSANCE, REVOLUTION, OR COUP? -- TAEJONG'S IMPACT -- 8: Confucianism and the Family in the Early Joseon Era -- THE DRAFTING OF LADY YI'S WILL, 1541 -- EARLY JOSEON CONFUCIANISM -- CONFUCIAN FAMILY LAW AND WOMEN'S STANDING -- 9: Surviving the Great Invasions, 1592-1637 -- THE RETURN OF ADMIRAL YI SUNSIN, 1597 -- PROBLEMS IN THE KOREAN RESPONSE -- NARRATIVES OF HEROISM -- THE REGIONAL ORDER REMADE.

[extract] When Robert Dahl coined the term of the "third transformation of democracy" (Dahl, 1994), he could not foresee the emergence of a transnational network society. Only twenty-five years after the publication of his article, we are in the midst of a fourth transformation of democracy in Europe. City-states have been replaced by nation-states in the 17thand 18thcentury, and nation-states were embedded in multi-level governance arrangements in the 20thcentury. In the 21stcentury, we are witnessing the emergence of a transnational network society organized around the opportunities of the digital revolution, cutting through nation-states and emptying the very idea of a national community of much of its empirical and normative content. Facebook, Twitter and Co. are not only profit-oriented enterprises, but also agents of global social integration. They provide important communication infrastructures and complement the world of states with a transnational level of interaction (Bohman, 2004, Grofman et al., 2014). The transnational network society is opening up a political horizon in which the traditional national loyalties represent only one form of political orientation among others (Keck & Sikkink, 1998).

Yoshihiko Amino is an historian who has perhaps exerted a greater influence than any other on Japanese historical scholarship from the latter part of the twentieth century down to the present. He specialized in Japanese medieval history. He always saw himself as an historian first and foremost, and all his life strove to base his work on sound empirical proof. Yet his ground-breaking work, which overturned many commonly held assumptions about Japanese history, had an impact far beyond academic circles. His topics were wide-ranging – including the history of the shōen (private estate) system, urban history, industrial history, the history of sea-faring peoples, women's history, and the history of the emperor system – and his work has influenced, not only those concerned with Japanese thought and literature, but also the world of film, and he has won broad popular support from among readers. He is rare among historians in Japan in that his name is so widely recognized.