作者簡介：沃格林（Eric Voegelin，1901-1985）/ 20世紀西方著名的政治哲學傢。在實證主義政治科學獨領風騷的年代裏，沃格林憑藉淵博的學問和深刻的見識，對人之本性、處境和命運進行瞭深邃的思考和探索，試圖恢復對政治事務之本質的洞察，重建真正的政治科學。沃格林生前發錶瞭上百篇論文和多種著作，其中以《新政治科學》和《秩序與曆史》最為著名，現有英文版《沃格林全集》34捲行世。

譯者簡介：段保良 / 政治學博士，執教於陝西師範大學，主要研究領域為政治哲學，西方政治思想史。

"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that "The New Science of Politics" would be a best-seller by political theory standards. Compressed within the Draconian economy of the six Walgreen lectures is a complete theory of man, society, and history, presented at the most profound and intellectual level. . . . Voegelin's [work] stands out in bold relief from much of what has passed under the name of political science in recent decades. . . . The New Science is aptly titled, for Voegelin makes clear at the outset that a 'return to the specific content' of premodern political theory is out of the question. . . . The subtitle of the book, An Introduction, clearly indicates that The New Science of Politics is an invitation to join the search for the recovery of our full humanity."--From the new Foreword by Dante Germino

"This book must be considered one of the most enlightening essays on the character of European politics that has appeared in half a century. . . . This is a book powerful and vivid enough to make agreement or disagreement with even its main thesis relatively unimportant."--"Times Literary Supplement "

"Voegelin . . . is one of the most distinguished interpreters to Americans of the non-liberal streams of European thought. . . . He brings a remarkable breadth of knowledge, and a historical imagination that ranges frequently into brilliant insights and generalizations."--Francis G. Wilson, "American Political Science Review "

"This book is beautifully constructed . . . his erudition constantly brings a startling illumination."--Martin Wright, "International Affairs "

"A ledestar to thinking men who seek a restoration of political science on the classic and Christian basis . . . a significant accomplishment in the retheorization of our age."--Anthony Harrigan, "Christian Century "