A comprehensive work on the metaphysical aspects of sexuality. Julius Evola sheds new light on the mystical and spiritual expression of sexual love. This in-depth study explores the sexual rites of sacred traditions, and shows how religion, mysticism, folklore, and mythology all contain erotic forms in which the deep potentialities of human beings are recognized.

A new, annotated reader, The Philosophy of Love and Sex, presents not only classic readings on love and sex from a diverse selection of philosophical perspectives but also groundbreaking work in this rapidly changing field. Unlike existing readers, this comprehensive reader takes an interdisciplinary approach, choosing to include the voices of philosophers and philosophically m...(展开全部)

Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical problems, and the same problems will look different when we change the lens. In this book, Theodore Sider identifies how the shift from modal to "postmodal" conceptual tools in recent years has affected the metaphysics of scie...(展开全部)

Here is a tale of love and political commitment that centers on the unconventional, naive daughter of a wealthy family and the son of a Spanish exile, with whom she becomes involved. Together, as reporter and photographer, they uncover a hideous crime that puts their love and lives at risk. Previously published by Knopf.

Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime. They also discover how far they dare go in search of the truth in a nation of terror . . . and how very much they risk. "From the Paperback...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔治•巴塔耶（Georges Bataille，1897—1962），法国哲学家、评论家、小说家，博学多识，思想庞杂，其作品涉及哲学、伦理学、神学、文学、经济学等诸多领域。巴塔耶的思想上承尼采、克尔凯郭尔、萨德的批判倾向，下启20世纪后期法国诸家思潮，对福柯、德里达、波德里亚等人的影响尤深，颇具反叛精神，被誉为“后现代思想策源地之一”。 ======================= 【译者简介】 尉光吉 中国人民大学哲学博士，南京大学艺术学院助理研究员，主要研究西方文艺理论和法国哲学。译有布朗肖《无尽的谈话》和齐泽克《享受你的症状》等作品。

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the O...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔治•巴塔耶（Georges Bataille，1897—1962），法国哲学家、评论家、小说家，博学多识，思想庞杂，其作品涉及哲学、伦理学、神学、文学、经济学等诸多领域。巴塔耶的思想上承尼采、克尔凯郭尔、萨德的批判倾向，下启20世纪后期法国诸家思潮，对福柯、德里达、波德里亚等人的影响尤深，颇具反叛精神，被誉为“后现代思想策源地之一”。 ======================= 【译者简介】 尉光吉 中国人民大学哲学博士，南京大学艺术学院助理研究员，主要研究西方文艺理论和法国哲学。译有布朗肖《无尽的谈话》和齐泽克《享受你的症状》等作品。

Written in 1932, just before the fall of the Weimar Republic and on the eve of the Nazi accession to power, Ernst Junger's The Worker: Dominion and Form articulates a trenchant critique of bourgeois liberalism and seeks to identify the form characteristic of the modern age. Junger's analyses, written in critical dialogue with Marx, are inspired by a profound intuition of the mo...(展开全部)

This is a book about Kant's views on causality as understood in their proper historical context. Specifically, Eric Watkins argues that a grasp of Leibnizian and anti-Leibnizian thought in eighteenth-century Germany helps one to see how the critical Kant argued for causal principles that have both metaphysical and epistemological elements. On this reading Kant's model of causal...(展开全部)