Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time--whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin Hagglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading...(展开全部)

Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time--whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin Hagglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading...(展开全部)

In the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behavior. Utopianism for a Dying Planet examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden A...(展开全部)

"Fascinating . . . Poignant." The Wall Street Journal In this extraordinary work of insight and interviews, bestselling author Gay Talese shares with us the lives of those we don't know and those we might wish we did: Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Manhattan mobsters, Bowery bums, and many others -- fascinating men and women who define our country's spirit and lead us to an unde...(展开全部)

雅 · 伊瓦什凯维奇（ Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, 1894—1980 )，波兰小说家、诗人、剧作家，代表了二战后波兰文学最高成就。他是跨性别者，曾服役于波兰第三军团，之后加入斯卡曼德尔诗社，二战后长期担任波兰作家协会主席，及议会议员、波兰保卫和平委员 会主席。代表作有诗集《回到欧洲》《另一种生活》，长篇小说《名望与光荣》，戏剧《诺昂之夏》《假面舞会》等。四次获诺贝尔文学奖提名。 译者： 易丽君，1934年生，湖北黄冈人。北京外国语大学教授，博士生导师，长年从事波兰文学翻译及研究。获波兰总统和波兰文化、教育、外交各部部长授予的勋章、功勋章及各种荣誉称号，2018 年获中国翻译协会颁发的“翻译文化终身成就奖”。 裴远颖（1936—2017），江西南昌人。资深外交官，曾任中国驻波兰大使、驻立陶宛大使、驻印度大使。 校者： 袁汉镕，193...(展开全部)

雅 · 伊瓦什凯维奇（ Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, 1894—1980 )，波兰小说家、诗人、剧作家，代表了二战后波兰文学最高成就。他是跨性别者，曾服役于波兰第三军团，之后加入斯卡曼德尔诗社，二战后长期担任波兰作家协会主席，及议会议员、波兰保卫和平委员 会主席。代表作有诗集《回到欧洲》《另一种生活》，长篇小说《名望与光荣》，戏剧《诺昂之夏》《假面舞会》等。四次获诺贝尔文学奖提名。 译者： 易丽君，1934年生，湖北黄冈人。北京外国语大学教授，博士生导师，长年从事波兰文学翻译及研究。获波兰总统和波兰文化、教育、外交各部部长授予的勋章、功勋章及各种荣誉称号，2018 年获中国翻译协会颁发的“翻译文化终身成就奖”。 裴远颖（1936—2017），江西南昌人。资深外交官，曾任中国驻波兰大使、驻立陶宛大使、驻印度大使。 校者： 袁汉镕，193...(展开全部)

"Fascinating . . . Poignant." The Wall Street Journal In this extraordinary work of insight and interviews, bestselling author Gay Talese shares with us the lives of those we don't know and those we might wish we did: Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Manhattan mobsters, Bowery bums, and many others -- fascinating men and women who define our country's spirit and lead us to an unde...(展开全部)

What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse What does it mean to be at the end of life, the end of a family line, the end of a species, or the end of the future itself? To be “at the last” is often a terrifying prospect, but what would it mean if only the lasting remained? When faced with the abrupt end to the continuities of ecolo...(展开全部)

What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their ...(展开全部)

One of the most famous psychological studies of the late twentieth century, "On Death and Dying" grew out of an interdisciplinary seminar on death, originated and conducted by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. In "On Death and Dying, " Dr. Kubler-Ross first introduced and explored the now-famous idea of the five stages of dealing with death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, de...(展开全部)