The first history of postwar mathematics, offering a new interpretation of the rise of abstraction and axiomatics in the twentieth century. Why did abstraction dominate American art, social science, and natural science in the mid-twentieth century? Why, despite opposition, did abstraction and theoretical knowledge flourish across a diverse set of intellectual pursuits during th...(展开全部)

Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. This brought about the crucial change in the concept of number that made possible modern science. Includes a translation of Vieta's Introduction to the Analytical Art. 1968 edition. Bibliograph...(展开全部)

The first major study in over three decades to explore the essential arguments of all the major theoretical interpretations of nationalism, from the modernist approaches of Gellner, Nairn, Breuilly, Giddens and Hobsbawm to the alternative paradigms of van den Bergh and Geertz, Armstrong and Smith himself. In a style accessible to the student and the general reader Smith traces ...(展开全部)

The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this revised edition of a now classic work, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a radically new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka...(展开全部)

路易斯·萨斯（Louis Sass），美国罗格斯大学临床心理学系杰出教授，也是该校比较文学研究所和认知科学中心成员。除本书外，他还著有《妄想的悖论：维特根斯坦、史雷伯和精神分裂症》等。萨斯是美国心理学会心理学和艺术部以及哲学和心理学部的前任主席。2010年，他因“对心理学知识的哲学基础的研究”而获得美国心理学基金会的约瑟夫•B.吉特勒奖。 林徐达 美国普林斯顿大学人类学博士，现任台湾东华大学族群关系与文化学系教授。著有《诠释人类学：民族志阅读与书写的交互评注》（2015）、《在奇幻地：精神病院的临床民族志》（2022）。 梁永安 台湾大学人类学学士，哲学硕士，专职译者。

Metaphor and Thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. In this revised and expanded second edition, the editor has invited the contributors to update their original essays to reflect any changes in their thinking. Reorganised to accommodate the shifts in central theoretical ...(展开全部)

维果茨基（Лев Семёнович Выготский，1896-1934）是前苏联建国时期的卓越的心理学家，他主要研究儿童发展与教育心理，着重探讨思维和语言、儿童学习与发展的关系问题。由于他在心理学领域做出的重要贡献而被誉为"心理学中的莫扎特"，他所创立的文化历史理论不仅对前苏联，而且对西方心理学产生了广泛的影响。

Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's Thought and Language has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Its 1962 English translation must certainly be considered one of the most important and influential books ever published by the MIT Press. In this highly original exploration of human mental development, Vy...(展开全部)

Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases: the property of being bald is vague because there are people who are neither definitely bald, nor definitely not bald. The epistemology of vagueness concerns the sorts of attitudes we ought to have towards propositions we know to be borderline. Is it possible to discover whether a borderline bald man is bald? Could...(展开全部)

This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the mathematicians responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the discipline's origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics in the medieval and early modern periods. Volume 2 focuses on calculus, the rise of analysis in th...(展开全部)