What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit—the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today—offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline. Based on a new reading of the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz, Ankersmit constructs a rigoro...(展开全部)

扎卡里·赛尔·席夫曼（Zachary Sayre Schiffman），美国当代著名历史学家，1980年毕业于芝加哥大学历史系，获博士学位。1987年至今一直任教于美国东北伊利诺伊大学历史系，现担任该系伯纳德J.布勒梅尔杰出研究教授。研究重点：文艺复兴和近代早期欧洲历史，在法国启蒙运动史方面着力尤多。先后出版四部著作，其中影响大的就是《过去的诞生》，该书奠定了其在美国史学界的重要地位。 梅义征，安徽省太湖县人，历史学博士，现居上海市。历年在期刊、报纸发表各类论文近30篇，出版专著2本，译著2本，主编著作1本，参与编写著作1本。

Editorial Reviews Review Combining erudition with theoretical intelligence, Zachary Schiffman distills a theme, the discovery of 'the past,' that sheds new light on the history of western historical thinking from Herodotus to the eighteenth century. Some readers will disagree with some of Schiffman’s interpretations. All, however, will be stimulated and enlightened. (Allan Megi...(展开全部)

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birt...(展开全部)

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birt...(展开全部)

Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption - in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning...(展开全部)

Representation is puzzling. Physical events in our heads and sounds in our mouths come to be 'about' the world around us, equipping us to think and talk about anything fromÂthe most fundamental regularities in the universe to trivial matters of gossip. InThe Metaphysics of Representation, Robert Williams tells a story about how representational properties arise out of a fundame...(展开全部)

Being concerned with representation, this book is about an idea, a concept, a word. It is primarily a conceptual analysis, not a historical study of the way in which representative government has evolved, nor yet an empirical investigation of the behavior of contemporary representatives or the expectations voters have about them. Yet, although the book is about a word, it is no...(展开全部)

美国加州伯克利大学政治科学系名誉教授，在政治理论研究领域颇有建树，著名哲学家汉娜·阿伦特学生，《代表的概念》是其代表作，刊行四十余年仍盛誉不减，此书使其获得了2003年度有“政治学诺贝尔奖”之称的“约翰·斯凯特奖”。

A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a subst...(展开全部)