This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent. A more complex s...(展开全部)

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent. A more complex s...(展开全部)

Combining biography and intellectual history, Steven Rockefeller offers an illuminating introduction to the philosophy of John Dewey, with special emphasis on the evolution of the religious faith and moral vision at the heart of his thought. This study pays particular attention to Dewey's radical democratic reconstruction of Christianity and his many contributions to the Americ...(展开全部)

Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It co nfronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth; negative existential statements; the ontology of fiction and myth (whether it is true that...(展开全部)

克里普克，美国逻辑学家，哲学家。曾任教于哈佛、哥伦比亚、康奈尔和洛克菲勒等大学，1977年任普林斯顿大学哲学教授，后升任麦科什讲座哲学教授。他是模态逻辑语义学的创始人和因果-历史指称论的首倡者之一，认为名词的指称主要取决于与使用该名词有关的社会历史的传递链条。以此出发，他进一步阐发了有关专名和通名的理论，并由此构成了现代分析哲学的一个历史转折点。著有《命名和必然性》等。

Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey’s groundbreaking new biography, here is the definitive edition of the stories of John Cheever. Set in the tony suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, Cheever’s classic stories charted a country as recognizable and essential to American literature as Faulkner’s or Hawthorne’s. “Many people have written about suburbia,” John Updike ...(展开全部)

Combining biography and intellectual history, Steven Rockefeller offers an illuminating introduction to the philosophy of John Dewey, with special emphasis on the evolution of the religious faith and moral vision at the heart of his thought. This study pays particular attention to Dewey's radical democratic reconstruction of Christianity and his many contributions to the Americ...(展开全部)

克里普克，美国逻辑学家，哲学家。曾任教于哈佛、哥伦比亚、康奈尔和洛克菲勒等大学，1977年任普林斯顿大学哲学教授，后升任麦科什讲座哲学教授。他是模态逻辑语义学的创始人和因果-历史指称论的首倡者之一，认为名词的指称主要取决于与使用该名词有关的社会历史的传递链条。以此出发，他进一步阐发了有关专名和通名的理论，并由此构成了现代分析哲学的一个历史转折点。著有《命名和必然性》等。

Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It co nfronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth; negative existential statements; the ontology of fiction and myth (whether it is true that...(展开全部)

Published to coincide with editor Blake Bailey’s groundbreaking new biography, here is the definitive edition of the stories of John Cheever. Set in the tony suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, Cheever’s classic stories charted a country as recognizable and essential to American literature as Faulkner’s or Hawthorne’s. “Many people have written about suburbia,” John Updike ...(展开全部)