Ever since the scientist-turned-novelist C. P. Snow clashed with literary critic F. R. Leavis in the early 1960s, it has been a commonplace to lament that intellectual life is divided between 'two cultures', the arts and sciences. Yet why did a topic that had long been discussed inspire such ferocious controversy at this particular moment? This 2009 book answers that question b...(展开全部)

Ever since the scientist-turned-novelist C. P. Snow clashed with literary critic F. R. Leavis in the early 1960s, it has been a commonplace to lament that intellectual life is divided between 'two cultures', the arts and sciences. Yet why did a topic that had long been discussed inspire such ferocious controversy at this particular moment? This 2009 book answers that question b...(展开全部)

Essays in this volume demonstrate how science fiction can serve as a bridge between science and the humanities. Essays are arranged chronologically and form a historical survey of science fiction, showing how early writers like Dante and Mary Shelley revealed a gradual shift toward a genuine understanding of science; how H.G. Wells first showed the possibilities of a literature...(展开全部)

In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought. Tracing its development from beginnings in postwar Britain, through its various transformations in the 1960s and 1970s, to the emergence of British cultural studies at Birmingham, and up to the advent of Thatcherism, Dworkin shows this hi...(展开全部)

著者：埃里克·坎德尔（Eric R. Kandel），1929年出生于奥地利维也纳。1952年本科毕业于哈佛大学历史与文学专业，1956年在纽约大学获得医学博士学位，目前担任美国哥伦比亚大学教授和霍华德·休斯医学研究所资深研究员。他一生致力于神经科学的前沿研究，因在记忆存储的神经机制研究中作出重大贡献，于2000年获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。 译者：喻柏雅，科普作者，作品见于《读库》《南方周末》《新京报》等；译有埃里克·坎德尔的系列作品，已经出版的有《追寻记忆的痕迹：新心智科学的开创历程》与本书。

In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning.

In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning.

著者：埃里克·坎德尔（Eric R. Kandel），1929年出生于奥地利维也纳。1952年本科毕业于哈佛大学历史与文学专业，1956年在纽约大学获得医学博士学位，目前担任美国哥伦比亚大学教授和霍华德·休斯医学研究所资深研究员。他一生致力于神经科学的前沿研究，因在记忆存储的神经机制研究中作出重大贡献，于2000年获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。 译者：喻柏雅，科普作者，作品见于《读库》《南方周末》《新京报》等；译有埃里克·坎德尔的系列作品，已经出版的有《追寻记忆的痕迹：新心智科学的开创历程》与本书。

Much of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to calibrate architectural practice to evolving scientific knowledge about humans and environments, thus elevating the discipline's stature and enmeshing their work in a progressive restructuring of society...(展开全部)