From the Palantir co-founder, one of tech’s boldest thinkers and The Economist’s “best CEO of 2024,” and his deputy, a sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambitious view of technology’s potential in Silicon Valley have made the U.S. vulnerable in an era of mounting global threats. “Fascinating...(展开全部)

默里·沙纳汉，伦敦帝国理工学院认知机器人学系教授，负责指导动力学组的研究。毕业于帝国理工学院、剑桥大学，2006起担任帝国理工学院教授至今。 默里·沙纳汉是奥斯卡获奖影片《机械姬》的科学顾问，作品横跨人工智能、机器人学、逻辑学、动力系统、计算神经科学和哲学思想等多领域，经常在媒体上就人工智能和机器人问题发表评论。

"The Technological Society is one of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself -- unless we take the necessary steps to move ...(展开全部)

本书以正义范畴为讨论的中心，以对话体的形式，谈及了道德、教育、专政、民主、独裁、共产、文艺、宗教以及男女平权等问题。

本书以正义范畴为讨论的中心，以对话体的形式，谈及了道德、教育、专政、民主、独裁、共产、文艺、宗教以及男女平权等问题。

In this exploration of modern American legal culture, Lawrence Friedman addresses the ways in which the contemporary idea of individual rights has altered the legal systems and authority structures of Western society. Every aspect of law, he argues - from civil rights to personal-injury litigation - has been profoundly reshaped, reflecting the power of this concept.

In this imaginative exploration of modern legal culture, Lawrence Friedman addresses how the contemporary idea of individual rights has altered the legal systems and authority structures of Western societies. Every aspect of law, he argues--from civil rights to personal-injury litigation to divorce law--has been profoundly reshaped, reflecting the power of this concept. The new...(展开全部)

These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms?Karl Marx launched the modern debate on determinism with his provocative remark that "the hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-m...(展开全部)

Plato's classic work explores the idea of a perfect society through dialogues. It dives into the nature of justice—both in society and the individual—by imagining an ideal state. Topics range from the role of rulers and education systems to the meaning of virtue and the pursuit of truth. Written over 2,000 years ago, its questions remain urgent: How should a just society function? What makes a good life? Its ideas have shaped politics, ethics, and thought ever since, offering timeless insights into human nature and collective order.

The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Pascale Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant co...(展开全部)