It has been argued that Kant's all-consuming efforts to place autonomy at the center of philosophy have had, in the long-run, the unintended effect of leading to the widespread discrediting of philosophy and of undermining the notion of autonomy itself. The result of this 'Copernican revolution' has seemed to many commentators the de-centring, if not the self-destruction, of th...(展开全部)

Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. As we approach the 125th anniversary of the Nobel laureate's birth, his works continue to spark debate, resounding with unmatched timeliness and power. The Problems of Philosophy, one of the most popular works in Russell's prolific c...(展开全部)

A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended, failed even, in the German Idealist tradition. In The Culmination, Robert B. Pippin explores the ramifications of this charge through a masterful survey of Western philosophy, especially Heidegger’s critiques o...(展开全部)

The Fate of Reason is the first general history devoted to the period between Kant and Fichte, one of the most revolutionary and fertile in modern philosophy. The philosophers of this time broke with the two central tenets of the modern Cartesian tradition: the authority of reason and the primacy of epistemology. They also witnessed the decline of the Aufklärung, the completion...(展开全部)

弗雷德里克•拜泽尔，美国雪城大学哲学系教授。专长为德国古典哲学，黑格尔哲学研究大家。主要著作有《理性的命运》《德国晚期观念论》《德国理想主义》《黑格尔》等。

格奥尔格·西美尔（Georg Simmel，1858-1918），德国著名社会学家、新康德学派哲学家，主要以关于社会学方法论的著作闻名。在学术研究中，他开创了许多不同的理论风格，把不同学科、不同方法论的视野融为一体，并借助哲学、心理学、社会学、经济学及神学的各种分析模式，研究了诸如宗教、货币经济、道德起源、群体自我保存等重要的文化现象。在西方，西美尔赢得了哲学、社会学和美学等领域的崇高声誉。卢卡奇把他称为那个时代最伟大的“过渡哲学家”，韦伯和哈贝马斯也曾对西美尔的研究给予了极高的评价。多年来，西美尔的著作已经被翻译成了多国文字。不仅在西方有一批西美尔的固定研究者，而且在亚洲也有庞大的西美尔研究队伍。

Immanuel Kant's work changed the course of modern philosophy; in these essays Karl Ameriks examines how. He compares the philosophical system set out in Kant's Critiques with the work of the major philosophers before and after him (Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Jacobi, Reinhold, the early German Romantics, Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx). A systematic introduction argues that c...(展开全部)

This book grew out of a sense that contemporary philosophy lacks a self-image that does it justice. Of the self-images that philosophy inherited from the twentieth century, the most prominent – natural-ism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and so on – seemed obviously inadequate to most of the most interesting work in contemporary philosophy: as descriptions, false when b...(展开全部)