From 1925 until his death in 1929, the great German art theorist and cultural scholar Aby Warburg worked on an ambitious, unprecedented project he called the Mnemosyne Atlas: a series of 63 large themed panels, each featuring a constellation of images―postcards, maps, adverts, reproductions of artworks―that trace the migration of symbols from antiquity to the present. His goal ...(展开全部)

An accessible and accurate translation of the Quran that offers a rigorous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive study notes, special introductions by experts in the field, and is edited by a top modern Islamic scholar, respected in both the West and the Islamic world. Drawn from a wide range of...(展开全部)

In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic" abolition of Jewish law. Situating Paul's texts in the context of e...(展开全部)

The Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, is traditionally considered the first and most profound of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual based on trigrams and hexagrams, by the beginning of the first millennium it had acquired written explanations and a series of appendices attributed to Confucius, which transformed it into a work of wisdom literature as we...(展开全部)

In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic" abolition of Jewish law. Situating Paul's texts in the context of e...(展开全部)

A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefull...(展开全部)

The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's central contribution to moral philosophy, and has inspired controversy ever since it was first published in 1785. Kant champions the insights of 'common human understanding' against what he sees as the dangerous perversions of ethical theory. Morality is revealed to be a matter of human autonomy: Kant locates the source of t...(展开全部)

A defining work of moral philosophy, Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals has been influential to an extent far beyond what its modest length (roughly 75 pages) might suggest. It is also a famously difficult work, concerned with propounding universal principles rather than answering practical questions. As even professional philosophers will admit, first-time readers...(展开全部)

圣尼科拉·喀瓦西拉斯留下一些著作，包括一些讲道及圣人传记，其中有些被编辑出版。但他主要是因他的两部巨著而闻名。一部名为《事奉圣礼释义》，另一部名为《在基督内的生活》。后者共有七卷，根据帕弗罗使徒所言的教会是基督之奥体这一观点，阐述基督徒的超性生命。基督徒与基督的结合是真实而密切的，基督徒藉着领受圣事而获得神恩圣惠，在圣恩的影响下，与圣恩共同合作而结出丰硕的果实。 本书与《在基督内的生活》不仅理所当然地获得了作者的正教同道们的高度评价，甚至也受到西方人士的推崇（尽管本书的二十九、三十两章中批驳了拉丁教派的谬误）。撒拉维尔（Salaville）在他1943年出版的法译本的序言里提到天主教的脱利腾会议曾引用了本书，即使是教皇派的信徒，也不得不承认和肯定本书的极高价值。现在胡塞（J. M. Hussey）和麦克纳尔提（P. A. McNulty）将喀瓦西拉斯...(展开全部)