A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling scien...(展开全部)

The extraordinary story of a man's quest for truth. It will change the way you think and feel about your life. "The cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'" "The study of the art of motorcycle maintainence is really a study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace o...(展开全部)

In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in "We Have Never Been Modern, "a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what "have" we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the past twenty-five years, Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his nam...(展开全部)

In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern, a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the last twenty-five years, Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is...(展开全部)

Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims - yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. "The Empire of Trauma" tells th...(展开全部)

Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims - yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. "The Empire of Trauma" tells th...(展开全部)

作者简介、 罗伯特•M.波西格(Robert M. Pirsig，1928-2017)，生于明尼苏达州，在明尼苏达大学主修化学、哲学和传播学；曾到印度学习东方哲学，并任修辞学教授。在探寻真理的过程中，试图寻找支离破碎的文化的整合之道，一度精神分裂。1968年，他与长子克里斯开始了一场骑着摩托车横跨美国大陆的万里长旅，一路经过复杂经验与反省思考，终于恢复了自我的完整，这场旅行后来成为《禅与摩托车维修艺术》的基本情节。1975年波西格在哈得逊河的游历成为《莱拉：一场对道德的探究》一书的基础，这是他的第二部哲学作品。

作者简介、 罗伯特•M.波西格(Robert M. Pirsig，1928-2017)，生于明尼苏达州，在明尼苏达大学主修化学、哲学和传播学；曾到印度学习东方哲学，并任修辞学教授。在探寻真理的过程中，试图寻找支离破碎的文化的整合之道，一度精神分裂。1968年，他与长子克里斯开始了一场骑着摩托车横跨美国大陆的万里长旅，一路经过复杂经验与反省思考，终于恢复了自我的完整，这场旅行后来成为《禅与摩托车维修艺术》的基本情节。1975年波西格在哈得逊河的游历成为《莱拉：一场对道德的探究》一书的基础，这是他的第二部哲学作品。

The author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance examines life's essential issues as he recounts the journey down the Hudson River in a sailboat of his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus. Reprint.

Philosophers of science have given considerable attention to the logic of completed scientific systems. In this 1958 book, Professor Hanson turns to an equally important but comparatively neglected subject, the philosophical aspects of research and discovery. He shows that there is a logical pattern in finding theories as much as in using established theories to make deductions...(展开全部)