佩里•安德森 （Perry Anderson）1938年生，英国历史学家和政论家，专长于思想史，当代著名的马克思主义史学家、思想家和活动家，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校历史学和社会学教授，《新左派评论》的主编。著有《美国外交政策及其智囊》《绝对主义国家的系谱》《新的旧世界》《印度意识形态》《思想的谱系》《从古代到封建主义的过渡》等多本专著。 与其同时代的多数马克思主义者不同，安德森出生于一个富有的中产阶级家庭，其父于1930年代任职于中国海关。虽然出生于伦敦，但1938-1941年间，佩里•安德森却在上海度过了自己的幼年。

佩里•安德森 （Perry Anderson）1938年生，英国历史学家和政论家，专长于思想史，当代著名的马克思主义史学家、思想家和活动家，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校历史学和社会学教授，《新左派评论》的主编。著有《美国外交政策及其智囊》《绝对主义国家的系谱》《新的旧世界》《印度意识形态》《思想的谱系》《从古代到封建主义的过渡》等多本专著。 与其同时代的多数马克思主义者不同，安德森出生于一个富有的中产阶级家庭，其父于1930年代任职于中国海关。虽然出生于伦敦，但1938-1941年间，佩里•安德森却在上海度过了自己的幼年。

This collection of original essays by preeminent interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics, and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy and on arguments for and against the view that contemporary life and thought are distinct...(展开全部)

Do you have strong feelings about the word "irregardless"? Have you ever tried to define the word "is"? This account of how dictionaries are made is for you word mavens. Many of us take dictionaries for granted, and few may realize that the process of writing dictionaries is, in fact, as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence, Kory Stamper cracks ...(展开全部)

Walter J. Ong’s classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought. This thirtieth anniversary edition – coinciding with Ong’s centenary year – reproduces his best-known and most influential book in full and brings it up to date...(展开全部)

In The Last Word, Thomas Nagel, a leading philosopher and Professor of Law, presents a sustained defense of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals against its many relativistic claims in the fields of language, logic, ethics, and science. He proposes that reason reflects objective principles whose validity is independent of different points ...(展开全部)

If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an...(展开全部)

An extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950s, eventually becoming a meditation on the inheritance of conflict and its consequences. It is a thrillingly original, profound and lyrical work.

In The Last Word, Thomas Nagel, a leading philosopher and Professor of Law, presents a sustained defense of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals against its many relativistic claims in the fields of language, logic, ethics, and science. He proposes that reason reflects objective principles whose validity is independent of different points ...(展开全部)

If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an...(展开全部)