Since the seventeenth in the Western world century, concern for the welfare of the individual has been articulated philosophically most often as a concern for his rights. The modern conception of individual rights resulted from abandonment of ancient, value-laced ideas of nature and their replacement by the modern, mathematically transparent idea of nature that has room only fo...(展开全部)

Since the seventeenth century, concern in the Western world for the welfare of the individual has been articulated most often as a concern for his rights. The modern conception of individual rights resulted from abandonment of ancient, value-laced ideas of nature and their replacement by the modern, mathematically transparent idea of nature that has room only for individuals, o...(展开全部)

For those that have some knowledge of the philosophical arguments concerning rights, this book is a clear and well-written contribution to the continuing debate between the interest and will theories. The first third of the book is written by Kramer and split into two main sections; first, a robust defence of the Hohfeldian analytical framework and second, an equally firm propo...(展开全部)

An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an emptiness as ineffectual as a shadow. In fact, 'nothing' is one of the most powerful ideas the human mind has ever conceived. This shor...(展开全部)

Touching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grgoire Chamayou examines the systematic and organized search for individuals and small ...(展开全部)

Touching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grgoire Chamayou examines the systematic and organized search for individuals and small ...(展开全部)

An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an emptiness as ineffectual as a shadow. In fact, 'nothing' is one of the most powerful ideas the human mind has ever conceived. This shor...(展开全部)

In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philosophers, The Fate of Place is acutely sensitive to silences, absences, and missed...(展开全部)

“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means ...(展开全部)

林·亨特 (Lynn Hunt)，美国史丹佛大学博士。曾追随查尔斯·提利 (Charles Tilly) 从事历史社会学研究。她所到之处皆成为新文化史的重镇，每隔七、八年便有一重量级作品问世，诸如八十年代初期的《法国大革命时期的政治、文化与阶级》(Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, 1986)、以及九○年代初期的《法国大革命时期的家庭罗曼史》等。此外，她每隔十年便组织一次会议反省十年来的新文化史研究成果，因而催生了一九八九年《新文化史》(The New Cultural History, 1989) 和一九九九年《超越文化转向》(Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Cultur...(展开全部)