本书囊括了所有著名的经典原著，但与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度，以便能够纳入范围广泛、不那么出名的作品。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概、进一步阅读指南，以及必要的词汇表和原文注解。

The writings of the High Church Tory pamphleteer Mary Astell are a remarkable and underestimated contribution to the constitutional debates which ushered in the modern liberal democratic state .An interlocutor with Swift and Defoe,Awtell was perhaps the first systematic critic of Locke`s entire corpus,something which has been overlooked in the considerable literature evaluating the recepution of Locke`s Two Treatises on Goverment .Astell`s political pamphlets Reflections upon Marriage ,A Fair Way with the Dissenters and An Impartial Enquiry into the Origins of Rebellion ran to some five editions in her lifetime,but have never been reprinted in their entirety.This new edition makes accessible the major works of a fine English stylist and important political theorist.

Patricia Springborg is Reader in the Department of Government at the university of Sydney,new South Wales.She has held visiting appointments at the University of Pennsylvania,the University of California,Berkeley,and the Brookings Institution in Washington.Her publications include The Problem of Human Needs(1981),Royal Persons(1990)and Western Republicanism and the Oriental Prince(1992).

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chronology of principal events in Mary Astell`s life

Bibliographic essay

Select bibliography

Reflections upon Marriage

A Fair Way with the Dissenters and their Patrons

An Impartial Enquiry into the Causes of Rebellion

Biographical notes

Index