The second volume of Peter Gay's in-depth study of the dawn of the modern world—the Age of Reason. The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay's brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism . In the present book, he describes the philosophes' program and their views of society. His masterful appraisal opens a new range of insights into...(展开全部)

彼得·盖伊（Peter Gay），德裔美国史学家，耶鲁大学荣休教授。1923年生于柏林，后移民美国，在哥伦比亚大学获得博士学位，后曾在此任教。他著作等身，研究主题广泛，涉及启蒙运动、中产阶级等诸多社会文化史领域。曾荣获美国国家图书奖、美国历史学会杰出学术贡献奖、美国艺术与文学院金奖等重要奖项。盖伊先后花费了六七年时间撰写的《启蒙时代》至今依然是关于启蒙的必读之作。 译者王皖强，历史学博士，中国人民大学历史学院历史系教授，博士生导师， 世界近现代史教研室主任。 主要研究方向为西方思想文化史。译有《保守主义的含义》等。

This work completes the author's reinterpretation begun in "The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism". It describes the programme of the "philosophes" and their views of society, with the aim of providing insights into the Enlightenment's critical method and its human and libertarian vision.

In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provides both a cogent synthesis and a penetrating analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse strands of thought of this period, he shows how Enlightenment philosophers drew upon the ideas of the preceding centuries even ...(展开全部)

This is the first comprehensive overview of the exciting field of the 'science of science'. Those concerned with maximizing their career impact and productivity, with their scientific creativity, with effective collaboration and with the metrics of assessment will better understand the fundamental workings of science. Big data analysis and quantitative tools help identify succe...(展开全部)

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is an extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionary chaos and brutality that sweeps...(展开全部)

LONGLISTED 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From the pen of one of Iran's rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead. Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl,...(展开全部)

Book Description Ranging over central issues of morals and politics, this book discusses the nature of freedom and authority. It examines the role of value-neutrality, rights, equality, and the prevention of harm in the liberal tradition, and relates them to fundamental moral questions such as the relation of values to social forms, the comparability of values, and the signific...(展开全部)

Joseph Raz (/rɑːz/; Hebrew: יוסף רז; born 21 March 1939) is an Israeli legal, moral and political philosopher. He is one of the most prominent advocates of legal positivism and is well known for his conception of perfectionist liberalism. Raz spent most of his career as a professor of philosophy of law at the University of Oxford associated with Balliol College, and is now a pa...(展开全部)