'Modernity' has come to refer both to a contested historical category and to an even more contested philosophical and civilisational ideal. In this important collection of essays Robert Pippin takes issue with some prominent assessments of what is or is not philosophically at stake in the idea of a modern revolution in Western civilisation, and presents an alternative view. Pro...(展开全部)

In The Idealism of Freedom, Klaus Vieweg argues for a Hegelian turn in philosophy. Hegel’s idealism of freedom contains a number of epoch-making ideas that articulate a new understanding of freedom, which still shape contemporary philosophy. Hegel establishes a modern logic, as well as the idea of a social state. With his distinction between civil society and the state he makes...(展开全部)

The great German idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel has exerted an immense influence on the development of philosophy from the early 19th century to the present. But the metaphysical aspects of his thought are still under-appreciated. In a series of essays Robert Stern traces the development of a distinctively Hegelian approach to metaphysics and certain central metaphysical ...(展开全部)

Jean-Clet Martin offers an insightful reading of Deleuze, from the point of view of a student, a reader and a fellow philosopher with whom Deleuze himself corresponded about his work. By providing a philosophical reading of Deleuze by a major philosophical peer, Martin offers the reader a unique analysis of Deleuze's texts. An opening letter-preface by Deleuze to Martin testifi...(展开全部)

埃莱娜・格里莫（Hélène Grimaud）出身于普罗旺斯的埃克斯，如今生活在美国。十三岁，她经全体评委一致同意被法国国立音乐学院录取，成为该学院历史上全票通过入学考试的第一人。两年以后，她以拉赫玛尼诺夫的作品录制他的第一张CD并获得了“唱片协会”的大奖。在世界各地巡回演出的同时，埃莱娜・格里莫还致力于教育事业。她在纽约创办了一个教育中心――“野狼保护中心”。在她还只有十六岁时，大钢琴家乔治・博列特曾如此评价她：“我已经很久没有见过如此杰出的人物了。”

" Je n'ai aucune nostalgie de l'enfance. " Dès les premiers mots, Hélène Grimaud donne le ton de son étonnant récit. L'itinéraire de cette pianiste française de renommée internationale emprunte mille chemins buissonniers ; on la suit, de seuil en seuil, à travers son adolescence prodige, sa rupture avec le milieu parisien, son exil aux Etats-Unis, les doutes et la solitude à Ne...(展开全部)