Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer themes an...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)

彼得·图尔钦（Peter Turchin），进化人类学家，牛津大学人类学学院副研究员、进化研究所副所长。其研究方向包括文化演进、经济史、历史宏观社会学、历史计量学、社会进程的数学建模、历史数据库的构建与分析等。著有《战争，和平，战争》《失调时代：美国历史上的结构人口分析》《历史动力学：国家为何兴衰》等。

彼得·图尔钦（Peter Turchin），进化人类学家，牛津大学人类学学院副研究员、进化研究所副所长。其研究方向包括文化演进、经济史、历史宏观社会学、历史计量学、社会进程的数学建模、历史数据库的构建与分析等。著有《战争，和平，战争》《失调时代：美国历史上的结构人口分析》《历史动力学：国家为何兴衰》等。

彼得·图尔钦（Peter Turchin），进化人类学家，牛津大学人类学学院副研究员、进化研究所副所长。其研究方向包括文化演进、经济史、历史宏观社会学、历史计量学、社会进程的数学建模、历史数据库的构建与分析等。著有《战争，和平，战争》《失调时代：美国历史上的结构人口分析》《历史动力学：国家为何兴衰》等。

多米尼克•洛苏尔多（Domenico Losurdo，1941— ） 意大利著名历史哲学家、黑格尔哲学研究专家、马克思主义哲学史专家。意大利乌尔比诺大学哲学史教授、教育学院院长，国际黑格尔—马克思辩证思想学会主席。研究自由主义、自由主义与共产主义的关系及其解放战争等主题的重要学者，致力于通过解构史料来挑战我们时代操控历史的意识形态。 著有《黑格尔与现代人的自由》《黑格尔与自由主义者》《黑格尔与德国大灾难》《海德格尔与战争意识形态》《从自由主义到批判的共产主义》《历史中的修正主义》《最初的20世纪罪行》和《脱离历史》等。《自由主义批判史》于2005年在意大利出版，反响极大，一年内再版三次，并被译为多种语言。

In this definitive historical investigation of the formation of liberalism from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Domenico Losurdo overturns complacent and self-congratulatory accounts by showing that, from its very origins, liberalism and its main thinkers-Locke,Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, Sieyes and others-have been bound up with the defense of the thoroug...(展开全部)

In this definitive historical investigation of the formation of liberalism from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Domenico Losurdo overturns complacent and self-congratulatory accounts by showing that, from its very origins, liberalism and its main thinkers-Locke,Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, Sieyes and others-have been bound up with the defense of the thoroug...(展开全部)