This volume contains an essay in the shape of a series of lectures, and with a twofold object. On the one hand the essay deals not so much with the minuter details as with the connections, the linkages, the general growth, of modern philosophical thought since the 17th century. On the other hand the author's purpose is constructive as well as expository. Contents: studies of th...(展开全部)

吉尔松（1884～1978）Gilson,tienne Henry 法国哲学家，历史学家。新托马斯主义的主要代表之一。1884年6月13日生于巴黎一个天主教徒家庭，1978年9月20日卒于格拉旺。1913年获博士学位。曾任巴黎大学、多伦多大学和法兰西公学教授。1947年当选为法兰西科学院院士。吉尔松毕生致力于中世纪经院哲学史的教学和研究。他认为托马斯主义为现代哲学开辟了道路，主张“回到中世纪去”，强调真正的哲学必须以信仰为出发点。在他看来，对理性来说，信仰是不可缺少的，哲学的生命力就在于信仰和神学，其目的在于使哲学回归于神学。著有《中世纪哲学》、《基督教哲学概论》等。

A unique and honored figure in American intellectual history, Josiah Royce stands out as a master of many disciplines who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, psychology, social ethics, literary criticism, and history as well as metaphysics. These thirteen lectures elucidate his early philosophical idealism and explore the historical framework of his doctrine. ...(展开全部)

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello...(展开全部)

The Spirit of Modern Republicanism sets forth a radical reinterpretation of the foundations on which the American regime was constructed. Thomas L. Pangle argues that the Founders had a dramatically new vision of civic virtue, religious faith, and intellectual life, rooted in an unprecedented commitment to private and economic liberties. It is in the thought of John Locke that ...(展开全部)

The Spirit of Modern Republicanism sets forth a radical reinterpretation of the foundations on which the American regime was constructed. Thomas L. Pangle argues that the Founders had a dramatically new vision of civic virtue, religious faith, and intellectual life, rooted in an unprecedented commitment to private and economic liberties. It is in the thought of John Locke that ...(展开全部)

On the History of Modern Philosophy is a key transitional text in the history of European philosophy. In it, F. W. J. Schelling surveys philosophy from Descartes to German Idealism and shows why the Idealist project is ultimately doomed to failure. The lectures trace the path of philosophy from Descartes through Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, to Hegel and Schelling's o...(展开全部)

Translator's Preface Acknowledgements Translator's Introduction 1 Reassessing Schelling 1 Mind and Nature 3 Identity and Difference 13 Schelling and Hegel 23 References 35 [Introduction] 41 Descartes 42 Comparison of Bacon and Descartes 61 Spinoza, Leibniz, and Wolff 64 Spinoza 64 Leibniz 75 Wolff 84 Kant, Fichte, and the System of Transcendental Idealism 94 Kant 94 Fichte 106 ...(展开全部)

In this classic work, Adorno revolutionized music theory through an analysis of two composers he saw as polar opposites, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. Philosophy of Modern Music presents a profound study of key musical works of the twentieth century. But it is more than this because, as always with Adorno, a wide range of social and cultural questions are brought to b...(展开全部)