With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition and posed a series of challenges to Marxism. In a timely intervention in one of today's most vital theoretical deb...(展开全部)

This text questions whether deconstruction's devotees, whose traffic in the terms of "difference" signals privileged access to the most radically chic of intellectual circles, really know their Derrida. A deconstruction of the criticism that goes by deconstruction's name, this book reveals the true philosophical nature of Derrida's thought, its debt to the tradition it engages,...(展开全部)

Written in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall and within the context of a critique of a "new world order" that proclaims the death of Marx and Marxism, Jacques Derrida undertakes a reading of Marx's "spectropoetics" -- his obsession with ghosts, specters and spirits. Derrida argues that there is more than one spirit of Marx and that it is the responsibility of his hei...(展开全部)

From Library Journal In fall 1959, Strauss offered a course at the University of Chicago titled "Plato's Political Philosophy," during which he lectured on the Symposium. It was suggested shortly after that the lectures be reworked and published, and Strauss agreed. Benardete (classics, New York Univ.) worked on the manuscript, but Strauss was not satisfied with the results, an...(展开全部)

In this volume Leo Strauss presents a coherent and complete interpretation of Plato's "Symposium", proceeding by meticulous reading, from beginning to end. Strauss, operating on the idea that commentary is an useful method of expounding the truth, sheds light on the meaning of the dialogue and its place in the Platonic corpus, and also on a host of other topics, including the n...(展开全部)

侯仁之（1911—2013），历史地理学家，北京大学教授、中国科学院院士。侯仁之是中国现代历史地理学的重要奠基者和开拓者，主要从事城市历史地理、沙漠历史地理，以及中国古代地理学史、历史地理学方法论方面的研究，在理论与实践两方面为中国历史地理学的发展作出了重要贡献。 主要代表作有《历史地理学的理论与实践》、《历史地理学四论》、《侯仁之文集》、《北平历史地理》等，主编《北京历史地图集》、《北京城市历史地理》等。

让·伊波利特（Jean?Hyppolite，1907—1968）是20世纪中叶复兴法国黑格尔研究的重要人物，也是战后法国最具影响力的哲学家之一。伊波利特出生在法国西南部城镇容扎克，青年时代曾与让-保罗?萨特、乔治?康吉莱姆、雷蒙?阿隆等人同期就读于巴黎高等师范学院，他还是莫里斯?梅洛-庞蒂的挚友，也是吉尔?德勒兹、阿兰?巴迪欧、雅克?德里达、米歇尔?福柯的授业恩师。伊波利特有着良好的学术素养和勤恳的治学态度，为了钻研德国古典哲学，他自学德语，于1941年首次将《精神现象学》翻译成法语。深厚的学识为伊波利特的学术事业夯实了基础，也拓宽了道路。他于1945年成为法国斯特拉斯堡大学教授，后于1949年赴索邦大学任教。1954年，伊波利特回到母校巴黎高等师范学院担任校长，并从1963年开始任职法兰西学院哲学思想史首席教授，直至1968年在巴黎去世。伊波利特最...(展开全部)

The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques Lacan, from the transcriptions of the seminar.

Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic critics, he reduced French philosophy to “little more than an object of ridicule.” For his fans, he is an intellectual rock star who ranged across literature, polit...(展开全部)