恩斯特·卡西勒被西方学术界公认为本世纪以来最重要的哲学家之一。在西方世界影响甚广的“在世哲学家文库”将他与爱因斯坦、罗素、杜威等当代名家相提并论，并在扉页上将其誉为“当代哲学中最德高望重的人物之一，现今思想界具有百科全书知识的一位学者”。卡西勒曾任汉堡大学哲学教授，后担任汉堡大学校长，并逐渐创立了他自己的“文化哲学体系”。希特勒在德国上台，卡西勒愤怒地称“这是德国的末日”，遂于同年5月2日辞去汉堡大学校长职务，离开德国，开始了他十二年的流亡生活，先后任教于牛津大学、耶鲁大学和哥伦比亚大学。

西蒙娜•德•波伏瓦 (Simone de Beauvoir, 1908-1986) 法国哲学家、作家、女性主义者。1929年通过法国哲学教师资格考试，曾在多所学校执教。1945年和让-保罗•萨特共同创办《现代》杂志，致力于推介存在主义观点。1949年出版《第二性》，引起极大反响，成为女性主义的经典。1954年凭小说《名士风流》获龚古尔文学奖。她和汉娜•阿伦特、苏珊•桑塔格并称为西方女性学术的三个中心。 已故法国总统密特朗称她为“法国和全世界的杰出的作家”。法国前总统希拉克评价道：“西蒙娜•德•波伏瓦的去世标志着一个时代的结束，她在文学上的成就代表了一个时代思想的冲撞，并深刻影响了我们这个社会。她在法国文学史理应占有重要的一席之地。我以政府的名义表彰她为女英雄。”

With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterization and his unrivaled grasp of thrillingly bizarre cutting-edge science, Hannu Rajaniemi swiftly set a new benchmark for Science Fiction in the 21st century. Now, with his third novel, he completes the tale of the many lives, and minds, of gentleman rogue Jean de Flambeur. Influenced as much by the...(展开全部)

Christian parables have retained their force well beyond the sphere of religion; indeed, they share with much of modern literature their status as a form of address: Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.There is no message without there first being-or, more subtly, without there also being in the message itself-an address to a capacity or an aptitude for listening. This is not a...(展开全部)

Christian parables have retained their force well beyond the sphere of religion; indeed, they share with much of modern literature their status as a form of address: Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.There is no message without there first being-or, more subtly, without there also being in the message itself-an address to a capacity or an aptitude for listening. This is not a...(展开全部)

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social thinkers of the past half-century, known for both his theoretical and methodological contributions and his wide-ranging empirical investigations into colonial power in Algeria, the educational system in France, the forms of state power, and the history of artistic and scientific fields-among many other topics. Despite the d...(展开全部)

Acclaimed photographer Mary Ellen Mark (b.1940) has secured exclusive backstage access to some of the most famous actors and directors in film history Captures life on the sets of legendary movies Apocalypse Now and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, as well more recent productions such as the Oscar-winning films Moulin Rouge, Babel and Sweeney Todd Includes powerful portraits of...(展开全部)

Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. This book examines the origins of that principle in the legal and political thought of its most influential theorist, Jean Bodin (1529/30-1596). As the author argues in this study, Bodin's most lasting theoretical contribution was his thesis that sovereignty must be conceptualized as an indivisible bundl...(展开全部)