In this insightful book, which is a revisionist math history as well as a revisionist art history, Tony Robbin, well known for his innovative computer visualizations of hyperspace, investigates different models of the fourth dimension and how these are applied in art and physics. Robbin explores the distinction between the slicing, or Flatland, model and the projection, or shad...(展开全部)

In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, pre-eminent literary critic, scholar and teacher M.H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about poetry in new ways. In these essays, three of them never before published, Abrams engages afresh with pivotal figures in intellectual and literary history, among them Kant, Keats and...(展开全部)

In this short, lucid, rich book Michael Dummett sets out his views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy. The fundamental question of metaphysics is: what does reality consist of? To answer this, Dummett holds, it is necessary to say what kinds of fact obtain, and what constitutes their holding good. Facts correspond with true propositions, or true thoughts: when we...(展开全部)

In this short, lucid, rich book Michael Dummett sets out his views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy. The fundamental question of metaphysics is: what does reality consist of? To answer this, Dummett holds, it is necessary to say what kinds of fact obtain, and what constitutes their holding good. Facts correspond with true propositions, or true thoughts: when we...(展开全部)

The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this revised edition of a now classic work, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a radically new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka...(展开全部)

路易斯·萨斯（Louis Sass），美国罗格斯大学临床心理学系杰出教授，也是该校比较文学研究所和认知科学中心成员。除本书外，他还著有《妄想的悖论：维特根斯坦、史雷伯和精神分裂症》等。萨斯是美国心理学会心理学和艺术部以及哲学和心理学部的前任主席。2010年，他因“对心理学知识的哲学基础的研究”而获得美国心理学基金会的约瑟夫•B.吉特勒奖。 林徐达 美国普林斯顿大学人类学博士，现任台湾东华大学族群关系与文化学系教授。著有《诠释人类学：民族志阅读与书写的交互评注》（2015）、《在奇幻地：精神病院的临床民族志》（2022）。 梁永安 台湾大学人类学学士，哲学硕士，专职译者。

The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this revised edition of a now classic work, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a radically new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka...(展开全部)

路易斯·萨斯（Louis Sass），美国罗格斯大学临床心理学系杰出教授，也是该校比较文学研究所和认知科学中心成员。除本书外，他还著有《妄想的悖论：维特根斯坦、史雷伯和精神分裂症》等。萨斯是美国心理学会心理学和艺术部以及哲学和心理学部的前任主席。2010年，他因“对心理学知识的哲学基础的研究”而获得美国心理学基金会的约瑟夫•B.吉特勒奖。 林徐达 美国普林斯顿大学人类学博士，现任台湾东华大学族群关系与文化学系教授。著有《诠释人类学：民族志阅读与书写的交互评注》（2015）、《在奇幻地：精神病院的临床民族志》（2022）。 梁永安 台湾大学人类学学士，哲学硕士，专职译者。

丸山真男（1914-1996年），日本著名政治思想史学者，东京大学名誉教授，并获美国哈佛大学、普林斯顿大学分别授予名誉法学博士和名誉文学博士。其政治学被日本学界称为“丸山政治学”。著有《日本政治思想史研究》（1952年）、《现代政治的思想与行动》（1956-1957年）、《日本的思想》（1961年）、《忠诚与叛逆——转型期日本的精神状态》（1992年）等。 陈力卫，现为日本成城大学教授，译有《风土》（和辻哲郎著），列入商务印书馆“日本学术文库”出版。他同时为“日本学术文库”主编之一。