In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Gary Gutting presents a wide-ranging but nonsystematic exploration of some highlights of Foucault's life and thought. Beginning with a brief biography to set the social and political stage, he then tackles Foucault's thoughts on literature, in particular the avant-garde scene; his philosophical and historical work; his treatment of knowledge and power in modern society; and his thoughts on sexuality. 

How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully "objective"? What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this very short introduction, Samir Okasha explores the main themes and theories of contemporary philosophy of science and investigates fascinating, challenging questions such as these.

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を応用して作られた画期的音声教材。リラックスした状態で
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Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society.

Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of "philosopher", by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the 20th century. In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Michael Inwood focuses on Heidegger's most important work, Being and Time, to explore its major themes of existence in the world, inauthenticity, guilt, destiny, truth, and the nature of time.

Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, while also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings. 

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.

■灘校木村達哉先生による単語集『ユメタン』シリーズより、ユメタン(3)東大・京大学レベル」の音声です!本コンテンツは、書籍付属のCDとは逆に[英語→日本語]の順で収録した、ダウンロード版限定の音声です。「志望大学に合格するぞ!」という受験生の皆さんの夢はもちろん、「英語をマスターするぞ!」という英語学習者全員の夢をかなえる単語集です。 ■東大・京大学レベルの800語を収録 本コンテンツは、大学受験対策では最高レベルの800語を厳選しています。東大、京大はもちろん、旧帝大や早慶上智などで出題される難文対策も、ここまでやっておけば安心です。全800語を毎週100語ずつ学習するよう、UNIT 01~08に分かれています。見出し語とフレーズの両方の音声が収録されています。 ■音声を使って自分で確認テストができる!本コンテンツの音声は[英語→日本語]の順で収録されています。発音の確認用に使うだけでなく、英語を聞いて音声を止め、対応する日本語を考えるという方法で、自分で確認テストをすることもできます。 ※本商品にテキスト情報は含まれておりません。

With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife of a Princeton dean to remark, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" But the many scientific and personal achievements of this Nobel Prize-winning physicist are no laughing matter. Here, woven with his scintillating views on modern science, Feynman relates the defining moments of his accomplished life.

生産様式から交換様式への移行を告げた『世界史の構造』から一〇年余，交換様式から生まれる「力」を軸に柄谷行人の全思想体系の核心を示す

 David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealized conceptions of reason, liberty, and progress.  

     いい詩とは，ひとの心を解き放つ力をそなえているばかりか，生きとし生けるものへのいとおしみの感情をも誘いだしてくれます．詩人である著者が，その心を豊かにしてきた詩の宝箱の中から忘れがたい詩の数々を選びだし，情熱をこめて語ります．ことばの花々にふれてみなさんは，きっと詩の魅力にとらえられるでしょう．    

Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged, as they figure in the theory, philosophy, politics, ethics, and artwork of the period, and it is shown how they have interacted within a postmodernist culture. 

The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.

Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We’re rebelling against technology that’s too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte “read me” manuals. The iPod’s clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up in the simplicity paradox: we want something that’s simple and easy to use, but also does all the complex things we might ever want it to do.

近現代の日本史・世界史を総合し、近代化、大衆化、グローバル化の歴史像を考える高校の必修科目が始まる。シリーズ第一巻は中国史、イギリス史、アメリカ史、アフリカ史、中東史の歴史家とともに、近現代史の

One of the leading philosophical movements of the 20th century, existentialism has had more impact on literature and the arts than any other school of thought. Focusing on the leading figures of existentialism, including Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Camus, Thomas Flynn offers a concise account of existentialism, explaining the key themes of individuality, free will, and personal responsibility, which marked the movement as a way of life, not just a way of thinking.

In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns about correctness, Horobin considers whether such changes are improvements or evidence of slipping standards.  

1993年の初版刊行以来、多くの読者の圧倒的な支持を受け、四半世紀にわたって読みつがれてきた憲法教科書の決定版を四年ぶりに改訂。

これは問答か、謗法(ルビ:ほうぼう)か。平安時代初期、天台宗の最澄と法相宗の徳一が交わした批判の応酬は、仏教史上まれにみる規模におよぶ。相容れない立場の二人が、五年間にわたる濃密な対話を続けたのは