The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long a...(展开全部)

Americans like to insist that they are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in America have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker ...(展开全部)

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873 – December 30, 1962) was an influential American philosopher and intellectual historian, who founded the field known as the history of ideas. Lovejoy was born in Berlin, Germany while his father was doing medical research there. Eighteen months later, his mother committed suicide, whereupon his father gave up medicine and became a clergym...(展开全部)

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." - Immanuel Kant. Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political pluralism. In the "Crooked Timber of Humanity", he ...(展开全部)

Sir Isaiah Berlin was one of the most formidable defenders of philosophical liberalism and distinguished practitioners of the history of ideas. Renowned all over the world for his analysis of ideologies which have influenced or transformed society, Berlin discusses, in these eight essays, the meaning and significance of utopianism, cultural history, relativism, Fascism, romanti...(展开全部)

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)

阿克塞尔•霍耐特（Axel Honneth，1949—），德国著名社会理论家，法兰克福学派第三代旗帜性人物，曾任柏林自由大学社会学研究所研究员、法兰克福大学哲学教授、哥伦比亚大学哲学系教授。代表作有《为承认而斗争》《权力的批判》《承认：一部欧洲观念史》等。霍耐特创造性地继承了法兰克福学派批判社会理论的传统，以社会哲学为研究重点，致力于将社会政治分析与哲学探索相结合。2016年6月，霍耐特教授被授予都柏林大学最高荣誉“尤利西斯奖章”，以表彰他对社会哲学和批判理论的贡献。

阿克塞尔•霍耐特（Axel Honneth，1949—），德国著名社会理论家，法兰克福学派第三代旗帜性人物，曾任柏林自由大学社会学研究所研究员、法兰克福大学哲学教授、哥伦比亚大学哲学系教授。代表作有《为承认而斗争》《权力的批判》《承认：一部欧洲观念史》等。霍耐特创造性地继承了法兰克福学派批判社会理论的传统，以社会哲学为研究重点，致力于将社会政治分析与哲学探索相结合。2016年6月，霍耐特教授被授予都柏林大学最高荣誉“尤利西斯奖章”，以表彰他对社会哲学和批判理论的贡献。