On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, the Frenchman René Descartes, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely death far from home. Sixteen years later, the French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes' bones and transported them to France. Why would this devoutly Catholic official care so much ab...(展开全部)

The earthly remains of René Descartes have been disinterred several times since his death in 1650, and with each disturbance, some of his bones vanished into the hands of venerators. The irony of the material legacy of the philosopher of reason being regarded similarly to the relics of saints is not lost on Shorto, who pairs a detective narrative with his thoughts about what th...(展开全部)

萧拉瑟(Russell Shorto)，美国历史学家和作家。1959年出生于宾夕法尼亚州，1981年乔治华盛顿大学研究生毕业，是《纽约时报杂志》专栏作家。除了《笛卡尔的骨头》广受好评之外，他也以《世界中心的岛屿》一书出名，该书论及纽约市的荷兰起源。他也因加强荷兰与美国的关系而在2009年获得荷兰骑士勋章。

The Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise and adapt. Yet in this sweeping narrative and provocative retelling of modern history, Christopher de Bellaigue charts the forgotten story of the Islamic Enlightenment – the social movements, reforms and revolutions that transfigured the Middle East from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Modern ide...(展开全部)

作者簡介 克里斯多福‧德‧貝萊格Christopher de Bellaigue 一九七一年生於倫敦，在劍橋大學攻讀伊朗與印度研究。一九九五到二○○七年間，他旅居南亞及中東從事新聞工作，為《經濟學人》（The Economist）、《衛報》（Guardian）和《紐約書評》（New York Review of Books）撰文。他是得獎作家，著有四本書，也曾製作數個BBC電視及廣播節目。哈佛與牛津大學訪問學者。作品包括《波斯愛國者》（Patriot of Persia）、《反叛的大地》（Rebel Land）、《革命烈士的玫瑰花園》（In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs）、《伊朗的困鬥》（The Struggle for Iran）等。 譯者簡介 洪世民 六年級生，外文系畢，現為專職翻譯，譯作涵蓋各領域，包括《一件T恤...(展开全部)

A revelatory and game-changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world. With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Flying in the face of everything we thought we...(展开全部)

Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude began to change with the publication of Descartes’ Error in 1995. Antonio Damasio—"...(展开全部)

In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude began to change with the publication of "Descartes' Error". Antonio Damasi...(展开全部)

In this wondrously lucid and engaging book, renowned neurologist Antonio Damasio demonstrates what many of us have long suspected: emotions are not a luxury, they are essential to rational thinking. Descartes' Error takes the reader on an enthralling journey of scientific discovery, starting with the case of Phineas Gage--a construction foreman who in 1848 survived a freak acci...(展开全部)