【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)

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)

彼得•沃森（Peter Watson，1943— ） 英国思想史学者，曾任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员，《新社会》杂志副主编，为《泰晤士报》《纽约时报》《观察家》等报纸撰写过专栏，以恢宏的思想史作品闻名于西方世界，著有《思想史：从火到弗洛伊德》《20世纪思想史：惊骇之美》《德国天才》等。

In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought - tool-making, territoriality,...(展开全部)

彼得•沃森（Peter Watson，1943— ） 英国思想史学者，曾任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员，《新社会》杂志副主编，为《泰晤士报》《纽约时报》《观察家》等报纸撰写过专栏，以恢宏的思想史作品闻名于西方世界，著有《思想史：从火到弗洛伊德》《20世纪思想史：惊骇之美》《德国天才》等。

In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought - tool-making, territoriality,...(展开全部)

The Bloodless Revolution is a pioneering history of puritanical revolutionaries, European Hinduphiles, and visionary scientists who embraced radical ideas from the East and conspired to overthrow Western society's voracious hunger for meat. At the heart of this compelling history are the stories of John Zephaniah Holwell, survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, and John Stewart...(展开全部)

“Magnificently detailed and wide-ranging.”—Steven Shapin, The New Yorker Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Bloodless Revolution is a comprehensive history of vegetarianism, “draw[ing] the different strands of the subject together in a way that has never been done before” (Keith ...(展开全部)

In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant here traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world. Four years before his death, Will Durant began work on an abbreviated version of his highly...(展开全部)