Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts ― including his major statements on methodology, on body techniques, on practical reason, on nation and civi...(展开全部)

Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts — including his major statements on methodology, on body techniques, on practical reason, on nation and civi...(展开全部)

Elucidates the difference knowledge makes to our existence as civilized people. Advancing detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge, Knowledge and Civilization offers a new, original way of framing philosophical questions about knowledge. It describes a redirection in the philosophy of knowledge, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ec...(展开全部)

Elucidates the difference knowledge makes to our existence as civilized people. Advancing detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge, Knowledge and Civilization offers a new, original way of framing philosophical questions about knowledge. It describes a redirection in the philosophy of knowledge, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ec...(展开全部)

刘易斯·芒福德（Lewis Mumford，1895-1990年），是《日晷》杂志的副总编辑，社会学评论(伦敦)的代理主编以及美国文学年报的几位主编之一。他于1935年至1937年担任纽约市高等教育董事会董事，1938年至1944年担任美国教育理事会理事。芒福德先生还 是美国哲学学会会员和美国艺术与科学院院士。

"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 - before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social resu...(展开全部)

刘易斯·芒福德（Lewis Mumford，1895-1990年），是《日晷》杂志的副总编辑，社会学评论(伦敦)的代理主编以及美国文学年报的几位主编之一。他于1935年至1937年担任纽约市高等教育董事会董事，1938年至1944年担任美国教育理事会理事。芒福德先生还 是美国哲学学会会员和美国艺术与科学院院士。

布鲁斯·马兹利什，美国麻省理工学院历史学教授，研究领域广泛，包括全球史、心理历史学、自然科学史、历史哲学，并致力于将心理学的理论运用到历史研究之中。代表作有《探寻尼克松：一项心理史学的研究》《詹姆斯和约翰·斯图亚特·穆勒：19世纪的一对父子》《不确定的科学》《第四断裂：人类和机器同步进化》等，由于卓越的学术贡献，1986年荣获“汤因比奖”。

布鲁斯·马兹利什，美国麻省理工学院历史学教授，研究领域广泛，包括全球史、心理历史学、自然科学史、历史哲学，并致力于将心理学的理论运用到历史研究之中。代表作有《探寻尼克松：一项心理史学的研究》《詹姆斯和约翰·斯图亚特·穆勒：19世纪的一对父子》《不确定的科学》《第四断裂：人类和机器同步进化》等，由于卓越的学术贡献，1986年荣获“汤因比奖”。

在线阅读本书 In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud...(展开全部)