Why read Leibniz today? Can we still learn from him and not just about him? This book argues that Leibniz offers a powerful, productive model for transdisciplinary thinking that can push back against the narrowness of the humanities today. Richard Halpern recasts Leibniz as a great writer as well as a great philosopher, demonstrating that his philosophical project cannot be ful...(展开全部)

Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for answers. As this book argues, every er...(展开全部)

Written between May 1991 and February 1994, and ending just two weeks before his death from an AIDS-related illness , Derek Jarman’s entries in Smiling in Slow Motion pick up where Modern Nature left off. Friends and enemies are reviewed as he races through his last years painting, filmmaking, gardening, and annoying his targets through his involvement in radical politics. Infu...(展开全部)

In the "Statesman," Plato brings together--only to challenge and displace--his own crowning contributions to philosophical method, political theory, and drama. In his 1980 study, reprinted here, Mitchell Miller employs literary theory and conceptual analysis to expose the philosophical, political, and pedagogical conflict that is the underlying context of the dialogue, revealin...(展开全部)

加里·考克斯 Gary Cox，英国哲学家，在英国伯明翰大学获得哲学博士学位，同时，他也是伯明翰大学的名誉研究员。考克斯是萨特、存在主义和一些普及类的哲学书的作者。他的著作包括《如何成为一名存在主义者》（How to Be an Existentialist，2010）《做哲学》（How To Be a Philosopher，2010）和《上帝的困惑》（The God Confusion，2013）等。

Do life's big questions perplex you? This book will give you answers to some of them while revealing that others have no answer. A humorous but informed instruction manual to questions philosophers have been asking and attempting to answer for centuries, How to Be A Philosopher will help you: Think, talk, argue and persuade like a philosopher, win every agument by tying peopl...(展开全部)

爱德华·P. 亚历山大 Edward P. Alexander 教授是国际知名博物馆学家，曾任美国纽约州历史学会会长、威斯康星州历史学会会长等，是美国德拉华大学博物馆学学科的创始人，并荣登美国博物馆协会“百年荣誉榜”。 玛丽·亚历山大 Mary Alexander 是美国华盛顿特区的一位博物馆教育员和管理员，曾在多家博物馆任职，并出版多本博物馆学术研究著作。

Biological Motion studies the foundational relationship between motion and life. To answer the question, “What is Life?,” prize-winning historian of science Janina Wellmann engages in a transdisciplinary investigation of motion as the most profound definition of living existence. For decades, information and structure have dominated the historiography of the life sciences with ...(展开全部)