Science, faith, and politics: Francis Bacon and the utopian roots of the modern age: a commentary on Bacon's Advancement of learning.Jerry Weinberger -1985 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.detailsJerry Weinberger here seeks to establish Francis Bacon's rightful place among the founders--with Machiavelli and Hobbes--of the modern political tradition, claiming that Bacon's view of the sources of the modern age has great resonance for the problems of our contemporary scientific society.
Moral Soundings: Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life.Albert Borgmann,Richard Rorty,Steven Fesmire,Christina Hoff Sommers,Edward W. Said,Stanley Kurtz,Barbara Ehrenreich,Jerry L. Walls,Jerry Weinberger,Leon Kass,Jane Smiley,Janet C. Gornick,Jean Bethke Elshtain,Thomas Pogge,Isabel V. Sawhill &Richard Pipes -2004 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.detailsThis topically organized, interdisciplinary anthology provides competing perspective on the claim that western culture faces a moral crisis. Using clearly written, accessible essays by well-known authors in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities, the book introduces students to a variety of perspectives on the current cultural debate about values that percolates beneath the surface of most of our social and political controversies.
Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield.John Gibbons,Nathan Tarcov,Ralph Hancock,Jerry Weinberger,Paul A. Cantor,Mark Blitz,James W. Muller,Kenneth Weinstein,Clifford Orwin,Arthur Melzer,Susan Meld Shell,Peter Minowitz,James Stoner,Jeremy Rabkin,David F. Epstein,Charles R. Kesler,Glen E. Thurow,R. Shep Melnick,Jessica Korn &Robert P. Kraynak (eds.) -2000 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.detailsFor forty years, Harvey Mansfield has been worth reading. Whether plumbing the depths of MachiavelliOs Discourses or explaining what was at stake in Bill ClintonOs impeachment, MansfieldOs work in political philosophy and political science has set the standard. In Educating the Prince, twenty-one of his students, themselves distinguished scholars, try to live up to that standard. Their essays offer penetrating analyses of Machiavellianism, liberalism, and America., all of them informed by MansfieldOs own work. The volume also includes a bibliography of (...) MansfieldOs writings. (shrink)
Brain Organization and Memory: Cells, Systems, and Circuits.J. McGaugh,Jerry Weinberger &G. Lynch (eds.) -1990 - Guilford Press.detailsThe book will be an invaluable source for cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, and students interested in this active and exciting area of research. This volume is the third in a series.