This book re-conceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's Aesthetics and Kant's Critique of Judgment. Force demonstrates that aesthetics, and hence modern philosophy, began twice. On the one hand, Baumgarten's Aesthetics is organized around the new concept of the "subject": as a totality of faculties; an agent defined by ca...(展开全部)

鲍桑葵， 英国哲学家、美学家与伦理学家，新黑格尔主义者。毕业于牛津大学，曾任圣安德鲁斯大学教授 伦敦亚里士多德学会会长。中年时期转入美学和伦理学的研究，相信美学能调和后天与先天、自然与超自然，伦理学能调和享乐与义务、利己主义与利他主义。著有《美学史》、《美学三讲》、《知识与现实》、《个人的价值与命运》、《国家的哲学理论》等。

鲍桑葵， 英国哲学家、美学家与伦理学家，新黑格尔主义者。毕业于牛津大学，曾任圣安德鲁斯大学教授 伦敦亚里士多德学会会长。中年时期转入美学和伦理学的研究，相信美学能调和后天与先天、自然与超自然，伦理学能调和享乐与义务、利己主义与利他主义。著有《美学史》、《美学三讲》、《知识与现实》、《个人的价值与命运》、《国家的哲学理论》等。

What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a bridge between approaches, periods, and areas, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty de...(展开全部)

What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a bridge between approaches, periods, and areas, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty de...(展开全部)

Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy track. Only four come out the other side. The hike through the rugged Giralang Ranges is meant to take the office colleagues out of their air-conditioned comfort zone and teach resilience and team building. At least that is what the corporate retreat website advertises. Federal Police Agent Aaron F...(展开全部)

2014 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Reprint of the 3rd Edition. Weyl was a German American mathematician who, through his widely varied contributions in mathematics, served as a link between pure mathematics and theoretical physics, in particular adding enormously to quantum mechanics and the th...(展开全部)