Benjamin Franklin : An American Life Editorial Reviews Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. What's more, Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography, the revolutionary leader represents a political tradition that has been all but forgotten today, one that prizes pragmatism over moralism, religious tolerance over fundamentalist rigidity, and social mobility over class privilege. That broadly democratic sensibility allowed Franklin his contradictions, as Isaacson shows. Though a man of lofty principles, Franklin wasn't shy of using sex to sell the newspapers he edited and published; though far from frivolous, he liked his toys and his mortal pleasures; and though he sometimes gave off a simpleton image, he was a shrewd and even crafty politician. Isaacson doesn't shy from enumerating Franklin s occasional peccadilloes and shortcomings, in keepi
Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students 内容简介 The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy (The New York Times) now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. A cultural phenomenon with more than 750,000 copies in print, The Closing of the American Mind is as penetrating a criticism of our culture today as it was twenty-five years ago. In this acclaimed number one national bestseller, Allan Bloom, one of our country s most distinguished political philosophers, argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are really an intellectual crisis a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. In his new afterword, author Andrew Ferguson recounts why the book caused such a furor at publication and why its argument co
German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801 (英语) 平装 内容简介 One of the very few accounts in English of German Idealism, this ambitious work advances and revises our understanding of both the history and the thought of the classical period of German philosophy. As he traces the structure and evolution of Idealism as a doctrine, Frederick Beiser exposes a strong objective, or realist, strain running from Kant to Hegel and identifies the crucial role of the early romantics - Holderlin, Schlegel, and Novalis - as the founders of absolute Idealism. 作者简介 Frederick C. Beiser is Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. 基本信息 作者：Frederick C. Beiser 出版社: Harvard University Press (2008年4月1日) 平装: 752页 语种： 英语 ISBN: 0674027175 条形码: 9780674027176 商品尺寸: 15.3 x 4.6 x 22.6 cm 商品重量: 989 g ASIN: 0674027175
