The table of contents of this book will tell the reader, at a glance, that the book covers a wide range of topics. These topics have entered into the dialogue because they are matters of personal concern to the two participants. The dialogue is now being published as a book in the hope that the same topics will prove to be matters of general concern fot the authors` contemporar...(展开全部)

Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy―including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger―from a French perspective. In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important living philosophers in France, discuss German philosophy from a French perspective. Written in the form of a dialogue, and revised and expand...(展开全部)

"The list of correspondents is dazzling: Albert Camus, Herman Hesse and Franz Kafka ... Franz Rosenweig and Bertrand Russell". -- Newsday

When she begins therapy for depression after breast cancer treatment, the author brings with her an extraordinarily open and critical mind, but also shyness about revealing herself. Resisting easy responses to issues of dependence, desire, and mortality, she warily commits to a male therapist who shares little of her cultural and intellectual world. Although not without pain, ...(展开全部)

"Jacques Derrida, notorious for producing intensely difficult works on aspects of the history of philosophy, here shows himself in another light dealing concretely and practically with some of the pressing social and political issues of our day." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus philosophiques “For what tomorrow will be, no one knows,” writes Victor Hugo. This dialogue, pro...(展开全部)

"Jacques Derrida, notorious for producing intensely difficult works on aspects of the history of philosophy, here shows himself in another light dealing concretely and practically with some of the pressing social and political issues of our day." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus philosophiques “For what tomorrow will be, no one knows,” writes Victor Hugo. This dialogue, pro...(展开全部)

Basis for the Acclaimed Public Television Triumph

Free to Choose (1980) is a book and a ten-part television series broadcast on public television by economists Milton and Rose D. Friedman that advocates free market principles. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement maintains that the free market works best for all members of a society, provides examples of how the free market engenders prosperity, and maintains that it can solve...(展开全部)

Basis for the Acclaimed Public Television Triumph