From Homeric gods to galaxies, from love affairs to perspective in painting, Paul Feyerabend revelled in the physical and cultural abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. From this fraction, scientists, artists, all of us construct encompassing abstractions and stereo...(展开全部)

From Homeric gods to galaxies, from love affairs to perspective in painting, Paul Feyerabend revelled in the physical and cultural abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. From this fraction, scientists, artists, all of us construct encompassing abstractions and stereo...(展开全部)

From Homeric gods to galaxies, from love affairs to perspective in painting, Paul Feyerabend revelled in the physical and cultural abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. From this fraction, scientists, artists, all of us construct encompassing abstractions and stereo...(展开全部)

From Homeric gods to galaxies, from love affairs to perspective in painting, Paul Feyerabend revelled in the physical and cultural abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. From this fraction, scientists, artists, all of us construct encompassing abstractions and stereo...(展开全部)

Bertrand Russell describes the purpose of this book as the putting together of some remarks on the state of happiness which are inspired by common sense, rather than any profound philosophy or deep erudition. It is based on the belief that many people who are unhappy could become happy by well-directed effort. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of th...(展开全部)

1874 年, 俄罗斯圣彼得堡出现一个奇怪的演说家, 他自称鲍罗廷, 三天两头跑到圣彼德堡的广场上, 鼓动人们起来革命。谁也不知道这个家伙的真实身份, 只知道他有时一身农民打扮, 有时又装扮得像个刚下班的工人, 到处散发自己写的小册子,发表煽动性演说。圣彼得堡的居民们都在议论这个奇怪的演说家和他的“ 无政府主义” 学说。 俄国政府决心制止这位无法无天的“ 鲍罗廷”。可是当秘密警察费了九牛二虎之力将其逮捕的时候, 沙皇和宫中所有的人们惊讶得差点连下巴都掉下来了, 原来这位煽动革命的家伙竟然就是沙皇的贴身侍卫, 大名鼎鼎的克鲁泡特金王子。

Bertrand Russell describes the purpose of this book as the putting together of some remarks on the state of happiness which are inspired by common sense, rather than any profound philosophy or deep erudition. It is based on the belief that many people who are unhappy could become happy by well-directed effort. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of th...(展开全部)

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print ...(展开全部)