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)

為英國約克大學社會學教授，除了消費社會學，亦多有著述針對宗教社會學與社會學理論進行探討。其著作包括《非宗教社會學》（Toward A Sociology of Irreligion）（Macmillan, 1971）、《社會行為的迷思》（The Myth of Social Action）（Cambridge University Press, 1996）、《血拼經驗》（The Shopping Experience）（Sage, 1997：與帕西‧福克（Pasi Falk）同為編者）等等。其他以消費為主題之書目資訊，詳見本書附錄。

為英國約克大學社會學教授，除了消費社會學，亦多有著述針對宗教社會學與社會學理論進行探討。其著作包括《非宗教社會學》（Toward A Sociology of Irreligion）（Macmillan, 1971）、《社會行為的迷思》（The Myth of Social Action）（Cambridge University Press, 1996）、《血拼經驗》（The Shopping Experience）（Sage, 1997：與帕西‧福克（Pasi Falk）同為編者）等等。其他以消費為主題之書目資訊，詳見本書附錄。

In a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy. What does the advance of science entail for our understanding of ourselves and for our ideas of God? How should a gover...(展开全部)

The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought. Western philosophy is now two and a half mill ennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb documented the first burst, w...(展开全部)

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

This book grew out of a sense that contemporary philosophy lacks a self-image that does it justice. Of the self-images that philosophy inherited from the twentieth century, the most prominent – natural-ism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and so on – seemed obviously inadequate to most of the most interesting work in contemporary philosophy: as descriptions, false when b...(展开全部)

This book grew out of a sense that contemporary philosophy lacks a self-image that does it justice. Of the self-images that philosophy inherited from the twentieth century, the most prominent – natural-ism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and so on – seemed obviously inadequate to most of the most interesting work in contemporary philosophy: as descriptions, false when b...(展开全部)

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy. * Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson* Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy* Explains ...(展开全部)