This volume examines an often taken for granted concept—that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers...(展开全部)

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and frater...(展开全部)

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and frater...(展开全部)

The idea for "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" was born hours after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and came to realization just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, in separate interviews, in New York City. Guided by Borradori, Habermas and Derrida evaluated the significance of the most destructive terrorist attack ever perpetrate...(展开全部)

The idea for "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" was born hours after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and came to realization just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, in separate interviews, in New York City. Guided by Borradori, Habermas and Derrida evaluated the significance of the most destructive terrorist attack ever perpetrate...(展开全部)

"Very few books dig so deeply into the feelings and experiences that really drive historians. Still less do they explore how events in distant ages, in seemingly distant cultures, can touch the modern reader. The Terror of History does this. Ruiz's voice is very much that of a teacher and scholar committed to the exploration of the human condition. This is a rich book." -- ...(展开全部)

"Very few books dig so deeply into the feelings and experiences that really drive historians. Still less do they explore how events in distant ages, in seemingly distant cultures, can touch the modern reader. The Terror of History does this. Ruiz's voice is very much that of a teacher and scholar committed to the exploration of the human condition. This is a rich book." -- ...(展开全部)

In its fifth year (1793-1794), the French Revolution faced a multifaceted crisis that threatened to overwhelm the Republic. In response the government instituted a revolutionary dictatorship and a 'reign of terror', with a Committee of Public Safety at its head. R.R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and as...(展开全部)

R.R. 帕尔默 （Robert Roswell Palmer，1909—2002） 普林斯顿大学和耶鲁大学历史学教授，专研18世纪法国史。1959年出版《民主革命时代：1760—1800欧美政治史》，获美国史学界最高奖项班克罗夫特奖。翻译乔治·勒菲弗作品《法国大革命的来临》。 曹雪峰 出版人、译者，出版策划品牌“洋火文化”创始人，近年来专注非虚构写作项目培育。 周自由 大学时学习工科，海外定居，曾从事商业翻译工作。

R.R. 帕尔默 （Robert Roswell Palmer，1909—2002） 普林斯顿大学和耶鲁大学历史学教授，专研18世纪法国史。1959年出版《民主革命时代：1760—1800欧美政治史》，获美国史学界最高奖项班克罗夫特奖。翻译乔治·勒菲弗作品《法国大革命的来临》。 曹雪峰 出版人、译者，出版策划品牌“洋火文化”创始人，近年来专注非虚构写作项目培育。 周自由 大学时学习工科，海外定居，曾从事商业翻译工作。