Different Beasts studies conceptions of human and animal identity as articulated in the ancient Chinese text known as the Zhuangzi and in the works of the seventeenth-century European philosopher Benedict de Spinoza. By examining how, in these very different philosophies, notions of humanness and animality intersect with ideas about human unity and solidarity, social order, and...(展开全部)

钱钟书，原名仰先，字哲良，字默存，号槐聚，曾用笔名中书君，中国现代著名作家、文学研究家。曾为《毛泽东选集》英文版翻译小组成员。晚年就职于中国社会科学院，任副院长。书评家夏志清先生认为小说《围城》是“中国近代文学中最有趣、最用心经营的小说，可能是最伟大的一部”。钱钟书在文学，国故，比较文学，文化批评等领域的成就，推崇者甚至冠以“钱学”。其夫人杨绛也是著名作家。

The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Parisian scientists, with the support of the king, d...(展开全部)

Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on the belief that humans are radically different from other animals. Taking inspiration from art, poetry, the frontiers of science...(展开全部)

The British bestseller "Straw Dogs "is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. Philosophies s...(展开全部)

艾蒂安·巴利巴尔（1942— ），法国哲学家，巴黎第十大学荣退教授和加利福尼亚大学欧文分校教授。1960年进入高师，在哲学上和政治上和阿尔都塞有密切合作关系，曾与阿尔都塞合著《阅读〈资本论〉》。代表作有《历史唯物主义五论》、《斯宾诺莎与政治》和《大众恐惧》，以及与伊曼纽尔·华勒斯坦合著的《种族、国家、阶级》。 赵文，文学博士，陕西师范大学文学院副教授，在北京外国语大学外国文学研究所进行博士后研究。从事西方批评理论、文学批评思想史方面的研究工作，同时进行学术文献的翻译及相关研究。代表性译作有阿尔都塞《马基雅维利和我们》（收入《哲学与政治：阿尔都塞读本》）、阿甘本《无目的的手段》等。

A trenchant analysis of Spinoza's major treatises within the context of his contemporary political, religious, and ideological life. With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, "Spinoza e...(展开全部)

This book is a unique transdisciplinary study on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science, especially in such a critical era of environmental crisis today. In recent years, environment historians have written intensively on China, yet the study of animals and plants in medieval China was less developed, not much about the role of religions, more precisely. T...(展开全部)

The most popular of Darwin's books during his lifetime, in a beautifully illustrated new edition Featuring dozens of color photographs from Darwin's original publication, this edition-issued to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth-makes this classic study newly accessible to modern readers. Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals ...(展开全部)