In this book, Eric Havelock presents a challenging account of the development of the idea of justice in early Greece, and particularly of the way justice changed as Greek oral tradition gradually gave way to the written word in a literate society. He begins by examining the educational functions of poets in preliterate Greece, showing how they conserved and transmitted the trad...(展开全部)

戴维•格雷斯（David Gress），丹麦著名历史学家。1998年出版著作《西方的敌与我：从柏拉图到北约》，全面检视西方的身份认同与宏大叙事，并因此闻名于西方学术界。 格雷斯先后在斯坦福大学胡佛研究所、剑桥大学冈维尔与凯斯学院担任研究员或访问学者，并在丹麦奥胡斯大学、美国波士顿大学讲授西方文明史与古典文化，期间，对国际战略、美国外交政策、北欧政治等均深有研究；目前担任丹麦国际事务研究所研究员、美国费城外交事务研究所美国与西方研究中心主任，同时也是著名智库——丹麦政策研究中心的高级研究员；持续关注西方政治哲学、西方繁荣的起源、当代史、政治文化等，发表、出版了相关论文与著作。

An in-depth intellectual history of the Western idea and a passionate defense of its importance to America's future, "From Plato to NATO" is the first book to make sense of the legacy of the West at a time when it is facing its greatest challenges. Readers of Francis Fukuyama, John Gray, Samuel Huntington, and other analysts of the dilemmas of Western nations in the twenty-firs...(展开全部)

fourteen critical essays.

Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. His tone is ultimately somewhat pessimistic: Mumford was deeply concerned with what he v...(展开全部)

John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons of our thinking, as he traces the history of shadow in British and American poetry from the Renaissance to the end of the twentie...(展开全部)

From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks’s broad range of interests–from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer’s. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascinat...(展开全部)

★作者简介★ ◆伊恩•布鲁玛（Ian Buruma），当代欧洲知名学者及作家。1951年12月28日生于荷兰，早年在莱顿大学攻读中国文学，后到日本大学艺术部专研电影，并在当地旅居七年。曾担任《远东经济评论》驻香港记者，并以评论家的身份定期为《旁观者》《纽约书评》等杂志撰稿。他的大部分著作聚焦于亚洲文化，特别是20世纪的日本。其主要作品有《面具下的欲望日本》《罪恶的代价：德国与日本的战争记忆》《伊恩•布鲁玛的日本访谈：从村上春树到广岛》《阿姆斯特丹的谋杀：电影人梵高之死与宽容的限制》等。 ◆阿维赛•玛格里特（Avishai Margalit），以色列希伯来大学哲学教授，曾任教于牛津大学、哈佛大学、柏林自由大学及马克思普朗克研究所、普林斯顿大学和纽约大学等。著有《The Decent Society》《Idolatry:co-authored with ...(展开全部)

This "grandly illuminating study of two centuries of anti-Western ideas" ( Foreign Affairs ) traces the historical roots of a virulent set of stereotypes about Westerners and the West, a cluster of notions and prejudices that Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit call Occidentalism. The path does not lead back to Islam but, in fact, back to the West itself. From nineteenth-cent...(展开全部)

Review "This wide ranging and clearly written book offers a judiciously compendious but rich account of the doctrine of substance..." -- Review of Metaphysics This wide ranging and clearly written book offers a judiciously compendious but rich account of the doctrine of substance in the hands of Decartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.. – Review of Metaphysics ...a plasure to read and d...(展开全部)