Donald Cress's highly regarded translation, based on the critical Pleiade edition of 1964, is here issued with a lively introduction by James Miller, who brings into sharp focus the cultural and intellectual milieu in which Rousseau operated. This new edition includes a select bibliography, a note on the text, a translator's note, and Rousseau's own Notes on the Discourse.

Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas, but perhaps this pride is misplaced. Perhaps ideas have us. In this book, science writer and documentary filmmaker Jonnie Hughes investigates the evolution of ideas, taking a look at how they seem to have lives of their own. Adopting the role of a cultural Charles Darwin, Hughes travels across th...(展开全部)

Why do some ideas spread, while others die off? Does human culture have its very own “survival of the fittest”? And if so, does that explain why our species is so different from the rest of life on Earth? Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas, but perhaps this pride is misplaced. Perhaps ideas have us. After all, ideas do appear to h...(展开全部)

笛卡尔（1569-1650），生于法国西部，8岁时被送到欧洲当时最有名的学校之一的拉夫赖公学学习。1616年获得法学硕士学位。1639年，他用拉丁文写了他最著名的著作《第一哲学沉思录》。1644年出版了《哲学原理》，1649年出版了《论灵魂的激情》。

《新科学家》New Scientist创建于1956年，是一家国际性科学周刊，在科学出版界具有世界性的声望，在全世界有超过500万忠实读者。 格雷厄姆·劳顿，《新科学家》杂志执行主编，毕业于英国帝国理工学院，获得生物化学学士学位和科学传播硕士学位，在科学写作方面获得过许多奖项。 珍妮弗·丹尼尔，《纽约时报》著名插画设计师，Google创意总监。

Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge-are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of 'things said' and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, la...(展开全部)

A collection of numerous essays drawn from de Certeau’s writings, Heterologies illustrates the diverse concerns that inform his work. Each essay examines and questions the bases surrounding contemporary reorganization.

New adventures in posthuman sci-fi from the author of I'm Waiting for You Longlisted for National Book Award in Translated Literature, 2021 Straddling science fiction, fantasy and myth, the writings of award-winning author Bo-Young Kim have garnered a cult following in South Korea, where she is widely acknowledged as a pioneer and inspiration. On the Origin of Species makes ava...(展开全部)