[美]艾伦•索卡尔（Alan Sokal），纽约大学物理学荣休教授、伦敦大学学院数学教授。主要研究方向为统计力学与组合数学，因其对后现代主义的批评（尤其是1996年的索卡尔事件）而为公众所熟知。 [比]让•布里克蒙（Jean Bricmont），鲁汶大学理论物理学教授。

《知識的騙局》（Impostures Intellectuelles）的作者索可（Alan Sokal）可而頗富盛名，當年他以荒謬而任意的筆法，引用物理、數學的理論，寫了一篇文章投到美國的文化研究雜誌《社會文本》（Social Text）。然後索可自己跳出來說他全都是胡說八道，恰恰證明了這些文化研究學者在睜眼說瞎話，有如國王新衣的翻版。這件事引起學術界軒然大波。一年之後，索可在法國出版了這本《知識的騙局》，點名批判的這些人都是當代思想的大人物，包括拉崗、克莉斯提娃、伊莉嘉萊、布希亞、德勒茲等人，索可認為他們濫用科學的觀念與術語，將科學的理念完抽離其脈絡，絲毫無法提出正當的辯護理由，在非從事科學研究的讀者面前濫用科學術語，卻毫不考慮它的相關性與意義。這本書在某些知識圈引發了不小的風暴，被批評為「毫無幽默感的科學學究，喜歡修改情書中的文法錯誤。」但是，索...(展开全部)

Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise o...(展开全部)

Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise o...(展开全部)

Why should a property interest exist in an intangible item? In recent years, arguments over intellectual property have often divided proponents--who emphasize the importance of providing incentives for producers of creative works-- from skeptics who emphasize the need for free and open access to knowledge. In a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis, Robert P. Merges establishes ...(展开全部)

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire career of one of Britain's greatest men of letters. It sets in biographical and historical context all of Hume's works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England, bringing to light the major influences on the course of Hume's intellectual development, and paying careful attention to the dif...(展开全部)

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire career of one of Britain's greatest men of letters. It sets in biographical and historical context all of Hume's works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England, bringing to light the major influences on the course of Hume's intellectual development, and paying careful attention to the dif...(展开全部)

What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly studying the ideas of dead white men. Some consider the discipline to be ...(展开全部)

Ayn Rand challenges the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "guilt", panic and despair they created. She was the proponent of a new moral philosophy - an ethic of rational self-interest - that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this new morality are set forth in this book. The author also wrote "The Vir...(展开全部)

Ayn Rand challenges the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "guilt", panic and despair they created. She was the proponent of a new moral philosophy - an ethic of rational self-interest - that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this new morality are set forth in this book. The author also wrote "The Vir...(展开全部)