This was Michel Foucault's first major book, written while he was the Director of the Maison de France in Sweden. It examines ideas, practices, institutions, art and literature relating to madness in Western history. Foucault begins his history in the Middle Ages, noting the social and physical exclusion of lepers. He argues that with the gradual disappearance of leprosy, madne...(展开全部)

This was Michel Foucault's first major book, written while he was the Director of the Maison de France in Sweden. It examines ideas, practices, institutions, art and literature relating to madness in Western history. Foucault begins his history in the Middle Ages, noting the social and physical exclusion of lepers. He argues that with the gradual disappearance of leprosy, madne...(展开全部)

威尔?杜兰特（Will Durant，1885—1981），美国作家、哲学家、历史学家，普利策奖（1968年）、美国总统自由勋章（1977年）获得者。 早年与胡适均曾师从美国实用主义哲学家杜威，1917年获哥伦比亚大学博士学位，前期著作以《哲学的故事》一书畅销成名。此后著作亦以其鲜明主张的自由和公平，赢得东方读者包括亚洲首位诺贝尔文学奖得主泰戈尔的尊重。后半生更以莫大的毅力和勇气撰写《文明的故事》，超级马拉松般持续近半世纪，曾环球考察实地历史（包括广东、上海等地），*后一段写作行程幸有金婚伴侣杜兰特夫人执笔加入，终于留下这一部传世之作。 杜兰特博士亦可谓20世纪*会讲故事的人，讲完了“哲学的故事”，再讲“文明的故事”。终其一生，他都热情地致力于将哲学和知识从学术的象牙塔中解放出来，化复杂为易懂，我们读者获益良多。 他说，历史的教训，就是我们总也记不住...(展开全部)

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that seem to escape scientific resolution and call for, in Gadamer's view, philosophical reflection of a hermeneutic sort.In effect, Gadam...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafés and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a s...(展开全部)

Thomas Paine was a brilliant man who played a vital role in the American Revolution of 1776. This was the last book he wrote, which centers almost entirely around Christianity. To Paine, it made sense to question everything in order to make valid answers possible. He puts forth many questions in this book regarding Christianity, confronting many beliefs with pure and rational r...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 安德鲁·斯卡尔（Andrew Scull），加州大学圣迭戈分校社会学与科学研究特聘教授，曾在宾夕法尼亚大学和普林斯顿大学任教，著有Museums of Madness；Social Order/Mental Disorder；The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900；Masters of Bedlam；Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine；Madness: A Very Short Introduction。斯卡尔也经常在《泰晤士报文学增刊》《柳叶刀》和《脑》等权威学术期刊发表论文和评论。他还是古根海姆基金会和美国学术团体协会成员，并于1992～19...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 安德鲁·斯卡尔（Andrew Scull），加州大学圣迭戈分校社会学与科学研究特聘教授，曾在宾夕法尼亚大学和普林斯顿大学任教，著有Museums of Madness；Social Order/Mental Disorder；The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900；Masters of Bedlam；Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine；Madness: A Very Short Introduction。斯卡尔也经常在《泰晤士报文学增刊》《柳叶刀》和《脑》等权威学术期刊发表论文和评论。他还是古根海姆基金会和美国学术团体协会成员，并于1992～19...(展开全部)

A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world. From facial recognition—capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn’t just...(展开全部)