This is the first book in English on the Italian architects Mario Asnago (1896–1981) and Claudio Vender (1904–1986). Their city was midtwentieth century Milan in transformation, and the extraordinary Milanese architectural scene of that time is revealed in their work and through the writings of their contemporaries. Cino Zucchi and Adam Caruso provide indepth analyses of the co...(展开全部)

This book offers an integrated critical account of the career of myth in modernity. It takes as its starting point some crucial moments in the eighteenth-century reinvention of the concept and then follows the major branches of theorising as they appear in the work of theologians, philosophers, literary artists, political thinkers, folklorists, anthropologists, psychologists, a...(展开全部)

When we hear of Milan, we think of fashion, soccer, or Leonardo da Vinci. Yet Milan is a leading global city economically as well, regarded as one of the "Four Motors in Europe." How did Milan become a city of such importance both economically and artistically? Its remarkable position is the result of the constant modernization Milan undertook throughout the nineteenth and twen...(展开全部)

理查德•韦斯特福尔，美国著名科学史家，获耶鲁大学哲学博士学位。任印第安纳大学科学史和科学哲学史系教授，曾担任美国科学史学会会长。当选为美国艺术和科学学院院士和英国皇家文学学会会员。1985年，获美国科学史学会授予科学史工作者的最高荣誉--萨顿奖。著有：《17世纪英格兰的科学和宗教》、《近代科学的构建：机械论和力学》、《牛顿物理学中的力：17世纪的动力科学》、《永不止息——伊萨克.牛顿传》。 译者简介： 张卜天，中国科技大学物理学学士，北京大学科技哲学博士，清华大学科学史系教授，研究方向为西方中世纪和近代科学思想史。精通科学史、科学普及与哲学翻译，译有著作近五十部。其译文优美流畅，广受读者好评。

This introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century examines the so-called 'scientific revolution' in terms of the interplay between two major themes. The Platonic-Pythagorean tradition looked on nature in geometric terms with the conviction that the cosmos was constructed according to the principles of mathematical order, while the mechanical philosophy conc...(展开全部)

Ontology of Construction, first published in 1994, explores theories of construction in modern architecture, with a particular focus on the relationship between nihilism of technology and architecture. Providing an historical context to the concept of making, the essays collected in this volume articulate the implications of technology in works by such architects as Le Corbusie...(展开全部)

Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on emotional responses, and these emotional responses are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. In the first half of the book, Jesse Prinz defends the hypothesis that morality has an emo...(展开全部)

This treatise is a look at how social reality is constructed from sense impressions - at how, for example, a "five-pound note" is constructed, with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper that is seen and touched.

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.