Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremost spokesperson of his generation of scholars, those who came of age after World ...(展开全部)

Contents Preface and Acknowledgments - vii Short Comments - 1 Myron L. Cohen - 3 Jerry Eades - 7 Judith Farquhar -12 Susan Greenhalgh - 16 Ellen Hertz - 20 Shih-chung Hsieh - 23 William Jankowiak - 29 Lili Nie - 32 P. Steven Sangren - 37 G. William Skinner - 43 James L. Watson - 50 Rubie Watson - 55 Robert Weller - 58 Li Zhang - 62 Longer Contemplation - 69 Joseph Bosco - 71 Su...(展开全部)

In "Reflections on Judging," Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Surveying how the judiciary has changed since his 1981 appointment, he engages the issues at stake today, suggesting how lawyers should argue cases and judges decide them, how trials can be improved, and, most urge...(展开全部)

Our modern society is flooded with all sorts of devices: TV sets, automobiles, microwaves, mobile phones. How are all these things affecting us? How can their role in our lives be understood?

Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms. He points out that the Psalms are poems, intended to be sung, not doctrinal treatises or sermons. Proceeding with his characteristic grace, he guides readers through both the form and the meaning of these beloved passages in the Bible.

Geoffrey Lloyd engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilisations that is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we still face today. How far is it possible to arrive at an understanding of alien systems of belief? Is it possible to talk meaningfully of 'science' and of its various constituent discipli...(展开全部)