How should we think about the "shape" of human history since the birth of cities, and where are we headed? Sociologist and historian John Torpey proposes that the "Axial Age" of the first millennium BCE, when some of the world's major religious and intellectual developments first emerged, was only one of three such decisive periods that can be used to directly affect present so...(展开全部)

阿拉斯代尔·麦金太尔(Alasdair MacIntyre，1929-)是活跃在英美哲学界、伦理学界的著名哲学家、伦理学家，德性伦理学的主要代表人物。早年就读于英国曼彻斯特大学，先后执教于英国的曼彻斯特大学、利兹大学，美国的波士顿大学、维特比德大学等多所大学，担任过社会学和思想史教授、哲学和政治学教授，现执教于美国鹿特丹大学哲学系，是该校哲学系的麦克马洪和哈克荣誉席教授。麦金太尔自50年代起，发表了大量著述，主要著作有：《马克思主义与基督教》(1953年)、《论无意识》(1957年)、《伦理学简史》(1966年)、《对时代自我形像的批判》(1971年)、《追寻美德》(1981年)，《谁之正义？何种合理性？》(1988年)。

In this book, acclaimed economist Herbert Gintis ranges widely across many fields—including economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, moral philosophy, and biology—to provide a rigorous transdisciplinary explanation of some fundamental characteristics of human societies and social behavior. Because such behavior can be understood only through transdisciplinary research, G...(展开全部)

In this book, acclaimed economist Herbert Gintis ranges widely across many fields—including economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, moral philosophy, and biology—to provide a rigorous transdisciplinary explanation of some fundamental characteristics of human societies and social behavior. Because such behavior can be understood only through transdisciplinary research, G...(展开全部)

Within the ephemera of the everyday - old photographs, circus posters, iron toys - lies a challenge to America's dominant cultural memory. What this memory has left behind, Bill Brown recovers in the "material unconscious" of Stephen Crane's work, the textual residues of daily sensations that add up to a new history of the American 1890s. As revealed in Crane's appropriation of...(展开全部)

The first classics in human history--the early works of literature, philosophy, and theology to which we have returned throughout the ages--appeared in the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. The canonical texts of the Hebrew scriptures, the philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle, the Analects of Confucius and the Daodejing, the Bhagavad Gita and the teachings ...(展开全部)

肯尼沃思·惠斯普是一位著名的魁地奇专家（用他自己的话说，还是一名狂热分子）。他创作了多部与魁地奇有关的作品，包括《威格敦流浪汉队奇迹》、《他如狂人般飞行》（“危险的”戴伊·卢埃林传记）和《击打游走球——魁地奇防御战略研究》。 肯尼沃思·惠斯普把自己的时间分成了两个部分。他把一部分时间花在诺丁汉郡的家中，另一部分时间花在“威格敦流浪汉队本星期打球的任何地方”。他的业余爱好是十五子棋、素食烹饪和搜集名贵的老式飞天扫帚。

肯尼沃思·惠斯普是一位著名的魁地奇专家（用他自己的话说，还是一名狂热分子）。他创作了多部与魁地奇有关的作品，包括《威格敦流浪汉队奇迹》、《他如狂人般飞行》（“危险的”戴伊·卢埃林传记）和《击打游走球——魁地奇防御战略研究》。 肯尼沃思·惠斯普把自己的时间分成了两个部分。他把一部分时间花在诺丁汉郡的家中，另一部分时间花在“威格敦流浪汉队本星期打球的任何地方”。他的业余爱好是十五子棋、素食烹饪和搜集名贵的老式飞天扫帚。

Louise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal ; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal, and crude. The Seven Ages is Glück's ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in so doing...(展开全部)