John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely interested in the Bible, and he was engaged by biblical theology and religion throughout his life. In this new book, K.I. Parker considers Locke’s interest in Scripture and how...(展开全部)

John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely interested in the Bible, and he was engaged by biblical theology and religion throughout his life. In this new book, K.I. Parker considers Locke’s interest in Scripture and how...(展开全部)

This volume makes available for the first time critical editions of John Locke's A Vindication and A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, in which Locke defends his interpretation of the New Testament and of the Christian Religion against charges of heterodoxy. These works contribute greatly to our understanding of Locke's Christian commitments, which it is...(展开全部)

Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It co nfronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth; negative existential statements; the ontology of fiction and myth (whether it is true that...(展开全部)

克里普克，美国逻辑学家，哲学家。曾任教于哈佛、哥伦比亚、康奈尔和洛克菲勒等大学，1977年任普林斯顿大学哲学教授，后升任麦科什讲座哲学教授。他是模态逻辑语义学的创始人和因果-历史指称论的首倡者之一，认为名词的指称主要取决于与使用该名词有关的社会历史的传递链条。以此出发，他进一步阐发了有关专名和通名的理论，并由此构成了现代分析哲学的一个历史转折点。著有《命名和必然性》等。

克里普克，美国逻辑学家，哲学家。曾任教于哈佛、哥伦比亚、康奈尔和洛克菲勒等大学，1977年任普林斯顿大学哲学教授，后升任麦科什讲座哲学教授。他是模态逻辑语义学的创始人和因果-历史指称论的首倡者之一，认为名词的指称主要取决于与使用该名词有关的社会历史的传递链条。以此出发，他进一步阐发了有关专名和通名的理论，并由此构成了现代分析哲学的一个历史转折点。著有《命名和必然性》等。

Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It co nfronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth; negative existential statements; the ontology of fiction and myth (whether it is true that...(展开全部)

A distinguished professor of Hebrew and comparative literature examines the Old Testament stories from a literary point of view.

From celebrated translator of the Hebrew Bible Robert Alter, the classic study of the Bible as literature, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter’s The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded our view of the Bible by recasting it as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In this seminal work, Alter describes...(展开全部)

In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part Robin Hood, one part Ocean’s Eleven , and entirely enthralling.… An orphan’s...(展开全部)