该书选取韦伯以来的若干重要政治思想家,对他们的生平、著述、主要思想及理论贡献进行了详细介绍,并以此为基础,展示了20世纪西方政治思潮主要流派的基本状况。全书除导论外,共分五篇。第一篇“当代西方政治思潮的展开” The book selects some important political thinkers since Weber and gives a detailed introduction to their life, writings, main ideas and theoretical contributions, and based on this, shows the basic conditions of the major schools of thought in Western politics in the 20th century. In addition to introduction to the book, divided into five. First “the development of contemporary Western political thought ”