Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball's path -- often appear to have no order, no rational pattern. Explicating the theory of chaos and the consequences of its principal findings -- that actual, precise rules may govern such apparently random behavior -- has been a major part of the work of Edwar...(展开全部)

Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72), the German philosopher and a founding member of the Young Hegelians, a group of radical thinkers influenced by G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), was an outspoken critic of religion, and the 1841 publication of this work established his reputation. In the first part of the book he examines what he calls the 'anthropological essence' of religion, and in the ...(展开全部)

This book was born of a refusal, the refusal of the very philosophy from which it has sprung. After the war, when it had become apparent that the classical tradition, and particularly neo-Kantianism, was breathing its last, French thought looked to Germany for its inspiration and renewal. Jean Hyppolite and Kojeve reintroduced Hegel and the "existentialists" and phenomenologist...(展开全部)

作者簡介 姓名：馬汀‧古德曼Martin Goodman 牛津大學猶太研究的教授與希伯來及猶太研究中心的主任。他是牛津大學沃爾森學院和英國國家學術院的成員。他所著的《羅馬與耶路撒冷》（Rome and Jerusalem, Allen Lane, 2007）被認為是羅馬帝國之猶太人這個研究領域中的翹楚。他在2002年編撰了《牛津猶太研究手冊》，贏得國家猶太書籍獎。 譯者簡介 姓名：羅亞琪 畢業於輔大跨文化研究所翻譯學碩士班。興趣廣泛，對文字、語言情有獨鍾，譯作包括《鮮味的祕密》、《看得見的符號》、《黑猩猩政治學》、《地圖上的城市史》、《冰層裡的航線》等書，目標是有朝一日能將譯作擺滿整個書櫃。

作者簡介 姓名：馬汀‧古德曼Martin Goodman 牛津大學猶太研究的教授與希伯來及猶太研究中心的主任。他是牛津大學沃爾森學院和英國國家學術院的成員。他所著的《羅馬與耶路撒冷》（Rome and Jerusalem, Allen Lane, 2007）被認為是羅馬帝國之猶太人這個研究領域中的翹楚。他在2002年編撰了《牛津猶太研究手冊》，贏得國家猶太書籍獎。 譯者簡介 姓名：羅亞琪 畢業於輔大跨文化研究所翻譯學碩士班。興趣廣泛，對文字、語言情有獨鍾，譯作包括《鮮味的祕密》、《看得見的符號》、《黑猩猩政治學》、《地圖上的城市史》、《冰層裡的航線》等書，目標是有朝一日能將譯作擺滿整個書櫃。

A panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions. Despite the extraordinarily diverse forms it has taken, the Jewish people have believed themselves bound to God by the same covenant for more than three thousand years. This book explains how Judaism came to be and how it has developed from one...(展开全部)

Essences have been assigned important but controversial explanatory roles in philosophical, scientific, and social theorizing. Is it possible for the same organism to be first a caterpillar and then a butterfly? Is it impossible for a human being to transform into an insect like Gregor Samsa does in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis? Is it impossible for Lot’s wife to survive being tur...(展开全部)