Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.

杰奎琳·罗斯（Jacqueline Rose）任教于伦敦大学伯贝克学院，《伦敦评论》杂志的常驻作者，致力的领域包括女权主义、文学和心理分析等。 曾在伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院教授英文，曾在剑桥大学进行有关性别的专题研究。代表作：《黑暗时代的她们》《令人难忘的西尔维娅·普拉斯》《夜不能眠》以及小说《阿伯丁》。

Jacqueline Rose's heroines could not appear more different from each other: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Yet historically these women have a shared story to tell as they blaze a trail across some of the most dramatic events of the last ...(展开全部)

【95 年11月誠品選書】在紀念漢娜．鄂蘭這位20世紀最具原創性思想家百年冥誕的今年，本書中文版的面世無寧具有特別的意義。她將充滿政治災難、道德淪喪20 世紀前半葉命名為「黑暗時代」，以獨到而精闢的見解，論及在這段期間諸多知識份子的人生經歷及其思想活動，也談時代之於他們人生與哲學理念的影響。全書勾勒萊辛、盧森堡、布萊希特、班雅明等十一位赫赫有名的大家群像，精準的描繪令人拍案叫絕。例如她形容班雅明是徘徊前衛古典之間，心靈矛盾；而盧森堡在公共領域裡展現出卓越的言行，透過理性辯論與他人連結開創新局，被鄂蘭認為是「黑暗時代的偉大心靈」。但鄂蘭並不視他們為時代精神的代表，而是透過論述袞袞諸公的理論與觀念，指出即使在最黑暗的時代，有這些思想家的螢螢光芒，人類的未來仍有希望。 一個最黑暗，也是思想文化最燦爛的年代， 鄂蘭有幸與這些精采的人在同一時空中交會。 本書是...(展开全部)

Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists of liberalism seem to have little to say. In Liberalism in Dark Times, Joshua Cherniss issues a rousing defense of the liberal tradition, drawing on a neglected strand of liberal thought. Assaults on liberalism—a politic...(展开全部)

Men, Machines, and Modern Times, though ultimately concerned with a positive alternative to an Orwellian 1984, offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the nineteenth century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society by such change, and society's reaction to that change.Beginning with a remarkable ...(展开全部)

Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, safer sex, sexual racism and gay marriage. The introduction of the smartphone in 2008 only intensified these debates whilst also raising a further set of questions which are explored in this open access book. Through interviews with ...(展开全部)

麦家，现居成都。出版有长篇小说，《解密》《暗算》，小说集《紫密黑密》《地下的天空》《让蒙面人说话》等多部。其笔下人物均系一群智力超凡的天才特工，其文风智性灵异，偏执不羁，是中国“新智力小说”和“特情小说”的开创者。根据其同名小说改编的电视剧《暗算》深受观众喜爱。

麦家，现居成都。出版有长篇小说，《解密》《暗算》，小说集《紫密黑密》《地下的天空》《让蒙面人说话》等多部。其笔下人物均系一群智力超凡的天才特工，其文风智性灵异，偏执不羁，是中国“新智力小说”和“特情小说”的开创者。根据其同名小说改编的电视剧《暗算》深受观众喜爱。

Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the Nazis rose to power are here seen through the lives of Edith Stein, a disciple of Husserl and author of La science et la croix, who died in Auschwitz in 1942; Hannah Arendt, pupil of Heidegger and Jaspers and author of Eichm...(展开全部)