The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations of humanness. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is a critical genealogy of Wynter’s work, highlighting her insights on ho...(展开全部)

In Indifference, Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal activists, farmers, laborers, transporters, and animals themselves, and moving across animal shelters and dairy farms to city streets and abattoirs, Davé shows how human-animal relations often manifest through care and vi...(展开全部)

In Indifference, Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal activists, farmers, laborers, transporters, and animals themselves, and moving across animal shelters and dairy farms to city streets and abattoirs, Davé shows how human-animal relations often manifest through care and vi...(展开全部)

In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a univers...(展开全部)

What does it mean to be human? How does a right understanding of personhood affect decisions on critical life situations? What implications does a biblical perspective on personhood have for the pastoral ministry of healing and hope? In answering these questions, Ray S. Anderson focused on the person as determined by and sustained by the creative power of God. He explored the t...(展开全部)

We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique enginee...(展开全部)

Hegel on Being provides an authoritative treatment of Hegel’s entire logic of being. Stephen Houlgate presents the Science of Logic as an important and neglected text within Hegel’s oeuvre that should hold a more significant place in the history of philosophy. In the Science of Logic, Hegel set forth a distinctive conception of the most fundamental forms of being through ideas ...(展开全部)

This volume presents a series of essays published by Charles Kahn over a period of forty years, in which he seeks to explicate the ancient Greek concept of Being. He addresses two distinct but intimately related problems, one linguistic and one historical and philosophical. The linguistic problem concerns the theory of the Greek verb einai, 'to be': how to replace the conven...(展开全部)

埃雷兹·艾登  1980年，埃雷兹·艾登出生于美国布鲁克林，精通希伯来语和匈牙利语。本科就读于普林斯顿大学，主修数学、物理学和哲学专业，毕业后考入叶史瓦大学历史学专业，攻读硕士学位。  2009年，在哈佛-麻省理工博德研究所攻读博士学位的艾登被《麻省理工科技评论》提名为世界上前35位年龄小于35岁的创新者。  博士毕业后，艾登先是任职于哈佛大学科研学会，后任谷歌客座教授，随后成为贝勒医学院和莱斯大学的助理教授，领导基因组架构研究中心。2012年，他因和同事一起发明了探测基因3D折叠方式的技术，获得美国总统青年科技奖（PECASE），这是美国政府颁给青年科学家的最高荣誉。 让-巴蒂斯特·米歇尔  数据科学公司量化实验室（Quantified Labs）创始人，哈佛大学副研究员，曾任谷歌客座教授。2010年在哈佛获得博士学位。2012年入选TED...(展开全部)

米哈依洛．马尔科维奇是南斯拉夫塞尔维亚共和国科学艺术院院士、塞尔维亚共和国科学艺术院社会科学部学部主任。主要著作有：《苏联对马克思主义哲学基础的修正》（1952）、《逻辑学》（1956）、《当代逻辑学中的形式主义》（1958）、《意义的辩证论》（1961）、《人道主义和辩证法》（1968）、《实践的辩证法》（1968）、《当代马克思》（1974）、《科学的哲学原理》（1981）等。 加约．彼德洛维奇是南斯拉夫克罗地亚共和国萨格勒布大学教授、前《实践》杂志的两位主编之一。主要著作有：《英国经验论哲学》（1955）、《从洛克到艾耶尔》（1963）、《20世纪中叶的马克思》（1967）、《哲学和革命》（1971）、《实践的宗旨何在》（1972）等。