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love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)

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love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims...(展开全部)

London is hunting The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism. Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus V...(展开全部)

These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lems fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. Astonishing is not too strong a word for these tales (Wall Street Journal). Translated and with an Introduction by Michael Kandel.

简介：拉维尔  艾尔文  花西子  雨皖期  余安柯  洁夕斯纯作者自娱自乐，可以跳过我的文章呀那是我第一次遇到那座山，自然听不得好言相劝我愿幻作晚星， 照亮你彻夜不熄的孤影浮世三千 不得有三水中月 镜中花 梦中你月可求 花可得唯你 求而不得自古多情空余恨好梦由来最易醒辞别再无相见日终是一人渡春秋我好想再见到他，思念无处安放

简介：拉维尔  艾尔文  花西子  雨皖期  余安柯  洁夕斯纯作者自娱自乐，可以跳过我的文章呀那是我第一次遇到那座山，自然听不得好言相劝我愿幻作晚星， 照亮你彻夜不熄的孤影浮世三千 不得有三水中月 镜中花 梦中你月可求 花可得唯你 求而不得自古多情空余恨好梦由来最易醒辞别再无相见日终是一人渡春秋我好想再见到他，思念无处安放

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims...(展开全部)