In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an inter...(展开全部)

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an inter...(展开全部)

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives...(展开全部)

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·勒杜（Joseph LeDoux） 世界知名脑科学家，纽约大学神经科学中心亨利·摩西和露西·摩西科学教授，他领导着纽约大学的情绪大脑研究所和内森·克莱恩精神病学研究所，也是美国国家科学院、美国艺术与科学院院士。 因在记忆和情绪的脑机制研究方面的杰出贡献和成就，勒杜曾获得多项荣誉，包括美国心理科学协会威廉·詹姆斯奖、美国哲学学会卡尔·斯宾塞·拉什利奖、费森国际认知科学奖、美国心理学会杰出科学贡献奖、美国心理学会唐纳德·O.赫布奖等。 在研究之外，勒杜也著有多部兼具公众教育意义和学术价值的图书，包括《情绪大脑》（The Emotional Brain）、《突触自我》（Synaptic Self）和《重新认识焦虑》（Anxious），其中《重新认识焦虑》一书获得2016年美国心理学会威廉·詹姆斯图书奖。

The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn't have. With a rare combination of historical expertise, statistical acumen, and accessible prose, Braumoeller shows that the evidence simply doesn't support the decline-of-war thesis propounded by s...(展开全部)

The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics. Acclaimed philosopher and historian A.C. Grayling points to three primary fac...(展开全部)

A. C. 格雷林，英国哲学家、私立大学“新人文学院”院长、英国人文主义协会副会长，皇家艺术学会和皇家文学学会成员。他出版了《怀疑论的反驳》《道德价值的未来》《维特根斯坦与哲学》《什么是好的？》《物的意义》《好书》《上帝的争论》《天才时代》《民主及其危机》《生活、性与思想》等30余部著作，广泛论及哲学、伦理学、美学、历史、戏剧等各个方面。他推崇哲学的现实实践意义，是欧洲非常知名的公共知识分子，经常为《卫报》《观察家》《星期日泰晤士报》《经济学人》等媒体撰稿，并参与BBC（英国广播公司）等媒体的节目。其成立的私立大学“新人文学院”，旨在填补高层次的人文研究的空白，获得了道金斯、尼尔•弗格森等明星学者的加盟支持。格雷林于2015年获得伯特兰•罗素奖，2017年获颁大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）。

A. C. 格雷林，英国哲学家、私立大学“新人文学院”院长、英国人文主义协会副会长，皇家艺术学会和皇家文学学会成员。他出版了《怀疑论的反驳》《道德价值的未来》《维特根斯坦与哲学》《什么是好的？》《物的意义》《好书》《上帝的争论》《天才时代》《民主及其危机》《生活、性与思想》等30余部著作，广泛论及哲学、伦理学、美学、历史、戏剧等各个方面。他推崇哲学的现实实践意义，是欧洲非常知名的公共知识分子，经常为《卫报》《观察家》《星期日泰晤士报》《经济学人》等媒体撰稿，并参与BBC（英国广播公司）等媒体的节目。其成立的私立大学“新人文学院”，旨在填补高层次的人文研究的空白，获得了道金斯、尼尔•弗格森等明星学者的加盟支持。格雷林于2015年获得伯特兰•罗素奖，2017年获颁大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）。

Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, RITES OF SPRING probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I -- from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," as Modris Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point . . ....(展开全部)