Jerry A. Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis, which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works. Fodor defends and extends the groundbreaking idea that thinking is couched in a symbolic system realized in the brain. This idea is central to the representational theory of mind which Fodor ha...(展开全部)

This illuminating study of Benjamin's final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher. Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism--Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an "unclassifiable" philosopher. His last text was written in a state of urgency, as he attempte...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the 2018 Ondaatje Prize Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice. Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had al...(展开全部)

库沙那瓦·乔杜里，生于加尔各答，后随父母移民美国。在耶鲁大学完成本科学业后，回到加尔各答并以记者身份供职于当地的《政治家报》，后又返回美国在耶鲁大学攻读政治学博士学位。本书是其第一本公开发表的文学创作。

库沙那瓦·乔杜里，生于加尔各答，后随父母移民美国。在耶鲁大学完成本科学业后，回到加尔各答并以记者身份供职于当地的《政治家报》，后又返回美国在耶鲁大学攻读政治学博士学位。本书是其第一本公开发表的文学创作。

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage com...(展开全部)

"The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes" praised the New York Times , and the Chicago Tribune agreed: "The work of a virtuoso with prose. . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses."

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage com...(展开全部)

"The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes" praised the New York Times , and the Chicago Tribune agreed: "The work of a virtuoso with prose. . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses."

罗伯特·D. 理查德森（Robert D. Richardson, Jr.），出生于1934年，美国历史学家、传记作家，哈佛大学博士，出生于美国威斯康星州密尔沃基市，曾在爱默生的故乡康科德生活过。曾于1990年获得古根海姆奖，于2007年获得美国历史学界最高奖班克罗夫特奖，并获得过美国历史学家协会颁发的帕克曼奖等。其传记作品《梭罗传：瓦尔登湖畔的心灵人生》《爱默生传：激情似火的思想家》被认为是“当代美国文学研究的伟大成就之一”。