THE MEDICALIZATION OF SOCIETY: ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN CONDITIONS INTO TREATABLE DISORDERS provides an overview of a field which recounts our love/hate relationship with the health professionals and the business side of health care systems, making for a complex analysis perfect for college-level health libraries and social science collections alike. Chapters build on ov...(展开全部)

THE MEDICALIZATION OF SOCIETY: ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN CONDITIONS INTO TREATABLE DISORDERS provides an overview of a field which recounts our love/hate relationship with the health professionals and the business side of health care systems, making for a complex analysis perfect for college-level health libraries and social science collections alike. Chapters build on ov...(展开全部)

This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of this sphere, Habermas recovers a concept which is of crucial significance for current debates in social and political theory. ...(展开全部)

This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of this sphere, Habermas recovers a concept which is of crucial significance for current debates in social and political theory. ...(展开全部)

This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolu...(展开全部)

This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolu...(展开全部)

托马斯•里德是思想史上一位十分重要的人物，是苏格兰常识学派的创始人。他认为常识是，至少应该是一切哲学探究的基础。他不同与休谟的“因为知识的局限我们关于外部世界的知觉,不足以成为推断它真实存在的理由”,也不同于贝克莱的“外部世界不过是观念的结合”，他主张我们能够从感觉正确的获得关于外部事物存在和属性的概念及确信。

托马斯•里德是思想史上一位十分重要的人物，是苏格兰常识学派的创始人。他认为常识是，至少应该是一切哲学探究的基础。他不同与休谟的“因为知识的局限我们关于外部世界的知觉,不足以成为推断它真实存在的理由”,也不同于贝克莱的“外部世界不过是观念的结合”，他主张我们能够从感觉正确的获得关于外部事物存在和属性的概念及确信。

托马斯•里德是思想史上一位十分重要的人物，是苏格兰常识学派的创始人。他认为常识是，至少应该是一切哲学探究的基础。他不同与休谟的“因为知识的局限我们关于外部世界的知觉,不足以成为推断它真实存在的理由”,也不同于贝克莱的“外部世界不过是观念的结合”，他主张我们能够从感觉正确的获得关于外部事物存在和属性的概念及确信。

Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system—Wiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex a...(展开全部)