IDEAS THAT MATTER: A PERSONAL GUIDE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Book ID/图书代码： 10010008B21183
English Summary/英文概要： ’Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels’. This is a book that celebrates the power of ideas: thought can, and does, change the world. And, in turn, ideas evolve. Fundamentalism, environmentalism and bioethics are defining our future just as Marxism, feminism or existentialism have influenced our present. So what do we need to know as we move into the 21st century? More than a simple reference work, this is A.C. Grayling’s personal and heartfelt guide to the ideas, past and present, that shape our world. Covering religion, philosophy, scientific theory and political movements, each alphabetically ordered entry illuminates, elucidates and provokes. Written with Grayling’s customary fire and erudition, the result is a book that aims both to arm readers with knowledge and engage them in philosophical debate.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 思想是推動歷史前進的齒輪，而駕馭這些思想所帶來的成就要比任其默默消逝大得多。
這本書正是對這些思想的總結：思想與實踐大大的改變了我們的世界。基要派、環境派，以及生物倫理派就如同馬克思主義、女權主義，存在主義一樣影響和定義了我們的世界。那麼，在我們跨進21世紀後，我們需要瞭解什麼呢？當然要比一個考證工作多得多，本書是作者個人對於思想從過去到現在，是怎樣建築我們的世界，誠如一項導引先鋒。包括宗教，哲學，科學理論，和政治運動，按字母表順序一一闡述，作者以自身的博學與熱情，將極武裝讀者們的大腦，增加其哲學上的思考與想法。(WZ & VL)
Awards/获奖情况："If there is any such person in Britain today as The Thinking Man, it is AC Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck. He provides generous help for the ethically challenged, the philosophically perplexed and the culturally confused. There are any number of ideas in the modern world; they are like trees in a forest... Clearly and succinctly, without jargon or condescension, Grayling takes on the intellectual world and names its parts. He does us great service with this useful handbook."----IAIN FINLAYSON THE TIMES -
About the Author/作者介绍： Anthony Grayling teaches philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and is a Fellow of St Anne’s, Oxford. He reviews regularly in the Financial Times. He has a regular column in Prospect and the Guardian on Saturday.
A.C.Grayling，倫敦大學伯克貝學院哲學高級講師、牛津大學聖安妮學院特約研究員。著有《哲學邏輯導論》（1982）、《駁懷疑論》（1986）、《貝克萊：中心論證》（1986）等書。擔任《衛報》專欄作者多年，並為《觀察家》、《經濟學人》等刊物撰稿。
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