"Renaissance Thought and Its Sources" presents the fruits of an extraordinary lifetime of scholarship: a systematic account of major themes in Renaissance philosophy, theology, science, and literature, show in their several settings. Here, in some of Paul Oskar Kristeller's most comprehensive and ambitious writings, is an exploration of the distinctive trends and concepts of th...(展开全部)

海因里希·沃尔夫林（Heinrich Wolfflin，1864-1945年），瑞士著名美术史家，著名学者雅各布·布克哈特的高足，被认为是继温克尔曼、布克哈特之后第三位伟大的艺术史家。沃尔夫林的艺术史研究关注普遍的风格特征，而不是对单独艺术家的分析，他把作品形式分析、心理学和文化史结合起来，力图创建一部“无名的艺术史“。主要著作有：《文艺复兴与巴洛克》（1888年）、《古典艺术》（1899年）、《艺术史的基本原理》（又译《艺术风格学：美术史的基本概念》，1915年）和《意大利和德国的形式知觉》（1931年）等。

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization - the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it wa...(展开全部)

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was ...(展开全部)

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was ...(展开全部)

Metaphor and Thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. In this revised and expanded second edition, the editor has invited the contributors to update their original essays to reflect any changes in their thinking. Reorganised to accommodate the shifts in central theoretical ...(展开全部)

Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases: the property of being bald is vague because there are people who are neither definitely bald, nor definitely not bald. The epistemology of vagueness concerns the sorts of attitudes we ought to have towards propositions we know to be borderline. Is it possible to discover whether a borderline bald man is bald? Could...(展开全部)

维果茨基（Лев Семёнович Выготский，1896-1934）是前苏联建国时期的卓越的心理学家，他主要研究儿童发展与教育心理，着重探讨思维和语言、儿童学习与发展的关系问题。由于他在心理学领域做出的重要贡献而被誉为"心理学中的莫扎特"，他所创立的文化历史理论不仅对前苏联，而且对西方心理学产生了广泛的影响。

Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's Thought and Language has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Its 1962 English translation must certainly be considered one of the most important and influential books ever published by the MIT Press. In this highly original exploration of human mental development, Vy...(展开全部)