This outstanding work on the history of philosophy and ideas, written by world-renowned philosopher, historian of philosophy, and teacher John Herman Randall, Jr., is now available for the first time in paperback. Long acclaimed a contemporary classic, "The Making of the Modern Mind" displays the comprehensiveness, clarity of style, balance, and wit that came to characterize al...(展开全部)

One of the common themes in recent public debate has been the law's inability to accommodate the new ways of creating, distributing and replicating intellectual products. In this book the authors argue that in order to understand many of the problems currently confronting the law, it is necessary to understand its past. This is its first detailed historical account. In this bo...(展开全部)

One of the common themes in recent public debate has been the law's inability to accommodate the new ways of creating, distributing and replicating intellectual products. In this book the authors argue that in order to understand many of the problems currently confronting the law, it is necessary to understand its past. This is its first detailed historical account. In this bo...(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)

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)

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。

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind “Captivating. . . . A welcome reconsideration of the role drugs play in life, medicine, and science.”—Publishers Weekly Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting...(展开全部)

THE STORY OF FATHERHOOD AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FATHER TODAY, BASED ON A DECADE-LONG STUDY OF NEW AND EXPECTANT FATHERS. Becoming a father is one of most common but also one of the most profoundly life-altering experiences a man can have. It is up there with puberty, falling in love and experiencing your first loss. Fifty years ago a father’s role was assumed to be clear: he...(展开全部)

Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far mor...(展开全部)

From Library Journal This book is primarily a historical account of the modernist protest against the disengaged and instrumental modes of thought and action that arose when theistically grounded morality crumbled, but that themselves focused too little upon our inner life, i.e., our powers of creative imagination and the substantive goods of ordinary life, which Taylor alleges...(展开全部)