Intellectual history of broad scope, beginning with Plato and ending on the brink of modernity. It explores the historical development of some central themes about property, showing how these themes sparked confrontation between apologists and critics of private property over its legitimacy, among philosophers, theologians and jurists through the ages.

Explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts include Plato's vision of an ideal polity in the Republic, Jesus' teachings on renunciation and poverty, and Golden Age narratives and other evolutionary accounts of the transition of mankind from primeval commu...(展开全部)

菲利普·内莫(Philippe Nemo，1949－），法国当代知名哲学、政治学教授，毕业于法国圣克鲁高师(Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud)，先后任教于图尔大学(Universi te de Tours)和奥吉斯特·孔德学院(Institut Auguste Comte)，现为巴黎高等商学院-欧洲管理学院(ESCP-EAP)的教授。

菲利普·内莫(Philippe Nemo，1949－），法国当代知名哲学、政治学教授，毕业于法国圣克鲁高师(Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud)，先后任教于图尔大学(Universi te de Tours)和奥吉斯特·孔德学院(Institut Auguste Comte)，现为巴黎高等商学院-欧洲管理学院(ESCP-EAP)的教授。

戴维·R.奥尔德罗伊德，澳大利亚新南威尔大学科学史与科学哲学学院名誉教授，澳大利亚人文科学院院士，国际地质学史委员会前秘书长（任期1996-2004年），现任该会副主席。他还是大洋洲科学史、科学哲学和科学社会学会会长，国际科学史研究院通信院士。他因在地质学史研究方面的卓越成就，荣获1994年英国伦敦地质学会颁发的弗里德曼奖章、1999年美国地质学会的科学史研究奖、2003年澳大利亚联邦政府授予的“世纪奖”。奥尔德罗伊德的著作包括《达尔文主义的影响》、《知识之弓》和《高地论占》，主编了《地球之内外——20世纪地质学之主要贡献》等书。

戴维·R.奥尔德罗伊德，澳大利亚新南威尔大学科学史与科学哲学学院名誉教授，澳大利亚人文科学院院士，国际地质学史委员会前秘书长（任期1996-2004年），现任该会副主席。他还是大洋洲科学史、科学哲学和科学社会学会会长，国际科学史研究院通信院士。他因在地质学史研究方面的卓越成就，荣获1994年英国伦敦地质学会颁发的弗里德曼奖章、1999年美国地质学会的科学史研究奖、2003年澳大利亚联邦政府授予的“世纪奖”。奥尔德罗伊德的著作包括《达尔文主义的影响》、《知识之弓》和《高地论占》，主编了《地球之内外——20世纪地质学之主要贡献》等书。

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618–907). It aims to break down barriers—between language and culture, poetry and history—that have stood in the way of teaching and learning Chinese poetry. Not only a primer in early Chinese poetry, the volume demonstrates the uni...(展开全部)

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618–907). It aims to break down barriers—between language and culture, poetry and history—that have stood in the way of teaching and learning Chinese poetry. Not only a primer in early Chinese poetry, the volume demonstrates the uni...(展开全部)

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618–907). It aims to break down barriers―between language and culture, poetry and history―that have stood in the way of teaching and learning Chinese poetry. Not only a primer in early Chinese poetry, the volume demonstrates the uni...(展开全部)

There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any cl...(展开全部)