This is a charming and insightful contribution to an understanding of the "Science Wars" between postmodernist humanism and science, driving toward a resolution of the mutual misunderstanding that has driven the controversy. It traces the root of postmodern theory to a debate on the foundations of mathematics early in the 20th century, then compares developments in mathematics ...(展开全部)

An introduction to writing proofs, presented through compelling mathematical statements with interesting elementary proofs. This book offers an introduction to the art and craft of proof-writing. The author, a leading research mathematician, presents a series of engaging and compelling mathematical statements with interesting elementary proofs. These proofs capture a wide range...(展开全部)

Many of the great minds of the past used mathematics to explore and then define the principal laws of nature. In this way

"Our only channel of information about the world is the impact of external forces on our sensory surfaces. So says science itself. There is no clairvoyance. How, then, can we have parlayed this meager sensory input into a full-blown scientific theory of the world? This is itself a scientific question. The pursuit of it, with free use of scientific theory, is what I call natural...(展开全部)

The Roots of Normativity concerns one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. Over many decades, Joseph Raz has sought to develop an answer to this question, according to which understanding normativity is understanding the roles and structures of normative reasons which, when they are reasons for action, are based on values. Th...(展开全部)

The Roots of Normativity concerns one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. Over many decades, Joseph Raz has sought to develop an answer to this question, according to which understanding normativity is understanding the roles and structures of normative reasons which, when they are reasons for action, are based on values. Th...(展开全部)

Divided into three parts - history, theory and praxis - this book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime. Arguing against the simplistic division in literary criticism between nihilism and the sublime, the book demonstrates that both are clearly implicated with the Enlightenment. Postmodernism, as a product of Enlightenment, is t...(展开全部)

The author of The Joy of Mathematics explores the mathematics of nature, literature and art. This fascinating look at the surprising ways mathematics influences the everyday world takes an abstract universe and anchors it to the "real" worlds of science, history and the arts in an intriguing way. Photos and line drawings.

伊哈布•哈桑（Ihab Hassan，1925—2015）埃及裔美国人，文学评论家，威斯康辛大学密尔沃基校区教授，最早也最为重要的后现代主义研究者之一。两次荣获古根海姆研究基金。代表作有《后现代转向》《当代美国文学》《奥尔菲斯的解体》等。 译者简介 刘象愚，北京师范大学退 休 教授、博士生导师。长期从事比较文学与英美文学的教学与科研工作。著有：《比较文学与比较文化》《比较文学概论》（合著）等；编有《乔伊斯精选集》《爱伦坡精选集》等；译有《文学理论》（合译）、《比较文学与文学理论》《当代文学理论导读》等。