文学成就比肩海明威、福克纳、马尔克斯的大师 改变侦探小说书写规则，引领“美国革命”的巨匠 硬汉派小说鼻祖，“黑色电影”的创始人 被誉为欧美侦探文学最后一位先知 * * * 达希尔·哈米特全名萨缪尔·达希尔·哈米特，出生于美国马里兰州西岸的圣玛利县，在费城和巴尔的摩长大。 哈米特十三岁辍学，之后数年间做过报童、码头装卸工、机关勤杂人员和证券公司小职员，后来加入位于巴尔的摩的“平克顿全国侦探事务所”。一九一五年至一九二一年期间，他在平克顿事务所任职，这段经历为他后来创作侦探小说提供了广泛的素材。在第一次世界大战期间，达希尔应召入伍，但是后来因结核病而被迫长期疗养，继而导致他的婚姻破裂。之后他开始依赖酒精，曾尝试广告业，最终踏上了写作一途。他贫寒的出身、在下层社会摸爬滚打的青年时代，以及在当时全美最大的平克顿侦探社任职多年所获得的丰富经验，使他的作品独树一...(展开全部)

Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid.

n the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched upon the most urgent questions in the history of philosophy: What is human finitude? What is objectivity? What is culture? What is truth? Over the last eighty years the Davos encounter...(展开全部)

Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction surveys the main trends of European philosophy from Kant to the present. It is clearly written and accessible to students. In a novel approach, Andrew Cutrofello looks at continental philosophy through the lens of four questions that derive from Kant: -How is truth disclosed aesthetically? -To what does the feeling of respect ...(展开全部)

In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched upon the most urgent questions in the history of philosophy: What is human finitude? What is objectivity? What is culture? And, what is truth? Over the last eighty years the Davos enc...(展开全部)

Standard accounts of nineteenth-century German philosophy often begin with Kant and assess philosophers after him in light of their responses to Kantian idealism. In "Continental Idealism", Paul Redding argues that the story of German idealism begins with Leibniz. Redding begins by examining Leibniz's dispute with Newton over the nature of space, time and God, and stresses the ...(展开全部)

n the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched upon the most urgent questions in the history of philosophy: What is human finitude? What is objectivity? What is culture? What is truth? Over the last eighty years the Davos encounter...(展开全部)

Standard accounts of nineteenth-century German philosophy often begin with Kant and assess philosophers after him in light of their responses to Kantian idealism. In "Continental Idealism", Paul Redding argues that the story of German idealism begins with Leibniz. Redding begins by examining Leibniz's dispute with Newton over the nature of space, time and God, and stresses the ...(展开全部)