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in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)

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)

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。

Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.7 x 1.9 inches Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds Amazon.com Review Women spend an extraordinary amount of money on cosmetics--$45 billion a year in the U.S. alone. Now in its fourth edition, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me strikes fear in cosmetics-counter consultants everywhere. First off, Begoun has deconstructed ingredient lists. Ever wonde...(展开全部)

In Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon, Peng Hsiao-yen argues that a trend of Counter-Enlightenment had grown from the late Qing to the May Fourth era in the 1910s to the 1920s and continued to the 1940s. She demonstrates how Counter-Enlightenment was manifested with case studies such as Lu Xun’s writings in the late 1900s, the Ae...(展开全部)

Early in the last century the successes of science led a group of French thinkers to apply the principles of science to the study of society. These thinkers purported to have discovered the supposed 'laws' of society and concluded that an elite of social scientists should assume direct control of social life. The Counter-Revolution of Science is Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek's...(展开全部)

Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planete (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world memory through the privileged lens of everyday life, and Counter-Archive situates this project in its biographic, intellectual, and cinematic contexts. Tracing the archive's key influ...(展开全部)