Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today’s debates on religion, morality, politics, and science. ...(展开全部)

丽贝卡•戈尔茨坦（Rebecca Goldstein），哲学家兼小说家，美国国家人文奖章、麦克阿瑟天才奖得主。她在普林斯顿大学取得了博士学位，师从当代西方哲学领军人物托马斯•内格尔。 跟这本跨界奇书的主人公柏拉图一样，戈尔茨坦喜欢用文学形式表达哲学思想。她学科学哲学出身，研究心灵哲学、数学哲学、斯宾诺莎和哥德尔。在巴纳德学院 教授哲学期间，她利用一个暑假写出了小说《心身问题》，由此开启了跨界小说家之路，之后又凭借《黑暗的姐妹》《马泽尔》《光之属性：爱、背叛与量子物理学》《关于上帝存在的36个证明》等小说斩获不少文学奖项。 正如美国国家人文奖章的嘉奖词所说，戈尔茨坦“用学术研究阐明了斯宾诺莎和哥德尔的理念，用小说生动机智地展现出思想与感受的张力”。这位特立独行、善于用新颖方式传达哲学关怀的思想家与丈夫斯蒂芬•平克一起，居住在美国马萨诸塞州。

马克•斯佩林（Mark Sperring），英国童书作家，曾就读于巴斯艺术设计学院，后转入英国一流的艺术设计学院——坎贝威尔艺术学院。图画书作品有《狮子爸爸的茶会》《迈克斯睡前表演秀》《向日葵之剑》等，在英国获得极高赞誉。现居住在英国布里斯托尔。 莎拉•沃伯顿（Sarah Warburton），英国插画家，出生于北威尔士。她创作了很多优秀的图画书作品，代表作有《魔猫日记》《有趣先生》《狮子爸爸的茶会》等。现在和丈夫、两个孩子生活在英国布里斯托尔。

This long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Muhdi's substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterworth and Thomas L. Pangle. The three parts of the book, "Attainment of Happiness", "Philosophy of Plato", and "Philosophy of Aristotle", provide a philosophical foundation for Alfa...(展开全部)

This long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Muhdi's substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterworth and Thomas L. Pangle. The three parts of the book, "Attainment of Happiness", "Philosophy of Plato", and "Philosophy of Aristotle", provide a philosophical foundation for Alfa...(展开全部)

Caldecott Award-winning author-artist Ed Emberley has created an ingenious way for children to chase away their nighttime fears. Kids can turn the pages of this die-cut book and watch the Big Green Monster grow. Then, when they're ready to show him who's in charge, they'll turn the remaining pages and watch him disappear! This lavish reissue features dramatic die-cut eyes and s...(展开全部)

John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle. Throughout history, some books have changed the worl...(展开全部)

From the early 1960s until his death, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. One of Deleuze's main philosophical projects was a systematic inversion of the traditional relationship between identity and difference. This Deleuzian philosophy of difference is the subject of Jeffrey A. Bell's Philos...(展开全部)