The Dreams of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dreams of Reason write by Heinz R. Pagels. This book was released on 1988. The Dreams of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains the new developments and the scientific impact of the computer as an instrument of the new sciences of complexity.
Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (New Edition)
Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (New Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (New Edition) write by Anthony Gottlieb. This book was released on 2016-08-30. Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (New Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "His book...supplant[s] all others, even the immensely successful History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell."—A. C. Grayling Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites comparison with Bertrand Russell's monumental History of Western Philosophy, "but Gottlieb's book is less idiosyncratic and based on more recent scholarship" (Colin McGinn, Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Book, and a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2001.
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy write by Anthony Gottlieb. This book was released on 2016-08-30. The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthony Gottlieb’s landmark The Dream of Reason and its sequel challenge Bertrand Russell’s classic as the definitive history of Western philosophy. Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb documented the first burst, which came in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Now, in his sequel, The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period—from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution—Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy. As Gottlieb explains, all these men were amateurs: none had much to do with any university. They tried to fathom the implications of the new science and of religious upheaval, which led them to question traditional teachings and attitudes. What does the advance of science entail for our understanding of ourselves and for our ideas of God? How should a government deal with religious diversity—and what, actually, is government for? Such questions remain our questions, which is why Descartes, Hobbes, and the others are still pondered today. Yet it is because we still want to hear them that we can easily get these philosophers wrong. It is tempting to think they speak our language and live in our world; but to understand them properly, we must step back into their shoes. Gottlieb puts readers in the minds of these frequently misinterpreted figures, elucidating the history of their times and the development of scientific ideas while engagingly explaining their arguments and assessing their legacy in lively prose. With chapters focusing on Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Pierre Bayle, Leibniz, Hume, Rousseau, and Voltaire—and many walk-on parts—The Dream of Enlightenment creates a sweeping account of what the Enlightenment amounted to, and why we are still in its debt.
Monstrous Dreams of Reason
Monstrous Dreams of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monstrous Dreams of Reason write by Laura Jean Rosenthal. This book was released on 2002. Monstrous Dreams of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays demonstrate how profoundly eighteenth-century formulations of gender, race, class, and sexuality have, through their challenges to a less empirical, rational, and universalizing past, set the terms for debates in the centuries that followed. They explore a wide range of texts, from Georgic poetry to crime stories, from illness narratives to travel journals, from theatrical performances to medical discourse, and from political treatises to the novel."--BOOK JACKET.
Einstein's Dreams
Einstein's Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Einstein's Dreams write by Alan Lightman. This book was released on 2011-03-02. Einstein's Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence. “A magical, metaphysical realm ... Captivating, enchanting, delightful.” —The New York Times Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar. Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
