馬剋·戈爾迪，英國曆史學傢，劍橋大學曆史學高級講師、丘吉爾學院研究員。他編著有大量的關於英國政治理論傢約翰·洛剋的著作。

羅伯特·沃剋勒（1942-2006），英國曆史學傢、政治理論傢，著名的啓濛運動研究專傢，先後在牛津大學、曼徹斯特大學、劍橋大學、耶魯大學等校任教。他著有《盧梭的社會思想》等多部學術著作。

本書由清華大學曆史係劉北成教授領銜翻譯，其他三位譯者是大連理工大學馬萬利、重慶師範大學劉耀輝、東北師範大學唐科。

This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of western political thought during the European enlightenment. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes that is now firmly established as the principal reference source for the history of political thought. Every major theme in eighteenth-century political thought is covered in a series of essays at once scholarly and accessible, and the essays are complemented by extensive guides for further reading, and brief biographical notes of the major characters in the text, including Rousseau, Montesquieu and David Hume. Of interest and relevance to students and scholars of politics and history at all levels from beginning undergraduate upwards, this volume chronicles one of the most exciting and rewarding of all periods in the development of western thinking about politics, man (and increasingly woman), and society.