约瑟夫·勒杜（Joseph LeDoux） 世界知名脑科学家，纽约大学神经科学中心亨利·摩西和露西·摩西科学教授，他领导着纽约大学的情绪大脑研究所和内森·克莱恩精神病学研究所，也是美国国家科学院、美国艺术与科学院院士。 因在记忆和情绪的脑机制研究方面的杰出贡献和成就，勒杜曾获得多项荣誉，包括美国心理科学协会威廉·詹姆斯奖、美国哲学学会卡尔·斯宾塞·拉什利奖、费森国际认知科学奖、美国心理学会杰出科学贡献奖、美国心理学会唐纳德·O.赫布奖等。 在研究之外，勒杜也著有多部兼具公众教育意义和学术价值的图书，包括《情绪大脑》（The Emotional Brain）、《突触自我》（Synaptic Self）和《重新认识焦虑》（Anxious），其中《重新认识焦虑》一书获得2016年美国心理学会威廉·詹姆斯图书奖。

乌尔里希•贝克 Ulrich Beck 1944年生于斯武普斯克, 曾在弗莱堡和慕尼黑学习过社会学，哲学，心理学和政治学。目前在慕尼黑大学和伦敦经济学院教授社会学。 伊丽莎白•贝克 Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim爱尔兰根-纽伦堡大学的社会学教授。她主要研究社会变化产生的问题与家庭在社会中角色的变化。

乌尔里希•贝克 Ulrich Beck 1944年生于斯武普斯克, 曾在弗莱堡和慕尼黑学习过社会学，哲学，心理学和政治学。目前在慕尼黑大学和伦敦经济学院教授社会学。 伊丽莎白•贝克 Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim爱尔兰根-纽伦堡大学的社会学教授。她主要研究社会变化产生的问题与家庭在社会中角色的变化。

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an inter...(展开全部)

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an inter...(展开全部)

Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age seeks to understand, expand, and challenge the boundaries of the modern travelogue across several literary traditions. Through an engaging cast of characters—China-bound missionaries, an Indo-Persian diplomat, a Turkish exile in India, a French schoolteacher touring America, Arab students in Moscow, a Japanese woman...(展开全部)

All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadershipas well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic downfalls and praise them for vital social reforms, but rarely do we question what makes some leaders successful while others falter. In this magiste...(展开全部)

All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadershipas well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic downfalls and praise them for vital social reforms, but rarely do we question what makes some leaders successful while others falter. In this magiste...(展开全部)

在本书，作者高层建瓴地回顾了西方人“时代意识”的起源，描绘了与西方社会现代化进程相伴随的精神文化的巨大震撼，以及这种震撼留给当代西方人的困境。作者的论述探及西方文化的精神传统与现代性之间的内在联系和内在冲突。