Completely revised throughout, Culture and Value is a selection from Wittgenstein's notebooks -- on the nature of art, religion, culture, and the nature of philosophical activity.

Completely revised throughout, Culture and Value is a selection from Wittgenstein's notebooks -- on the nature of art, religion, culture, and the nature of philosophical activity.

In this classic text, James W. Carey maintains that communication is not merely the transmission of information; reminding the reader of the link between the words 'communication' and 'community', he broadens his definition to include the drawing - together of a people that is culture. In this context, Carey questions the American tradition of focusing only on mass communicatio...(展开全部)

Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's highly original exploration of human mental development has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between words and consciousness, arguing that speech is social in its origins and that only as children develop does it become internali...(展开全部)

This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence. These new chapters show the radically different views of race prevailing among the intelligentsia at the beginning of the twentieth century and at ...(展开全部)

Revised and Expanded Edition Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship of the Argonauts sails in search of the Golden Fleece. Constellations are the invention of the human imagination, not of nature. They are an expression of the human desire to impress its own ...(展开全部)

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative biography to date of Mao Zedong, enriched by much new information only recently made available in China. Show More Show Less

安德瑞·马默，美国南加州大学古尔德法学院法学教授、哲学教授，法学与哲学研究中心主任。英国牛津大学法学博士，师从拉兹。在法律道德性与政治学之间的关系问题上著述颇丰，除《解释与法律理论》（Interpretation and Legal Theory，牛津大学出版社1992年初版，哈特出版社2005年第2版）之外，还著有《实在法与客观价值》 （Positive Law & Objective Values，牛津大学出版社2001年版），《多元主义时代的法律》（Law in the Age of Pluralism，牛津大学出版社2007年版），《社会惯习》（Social Conventions，普林斯顿大学出版社2009年版），《法哲学》（普林斯顿大学出版社2011年版）及大量学术论文。