The question 'What is the meaning of life?' is one of the most fascinating, oldest and most difficult questions human beings have ever posed themselves. In an increasingly secularized culture, it remains a question to which we are ineluctably and powerfully drawn. In this acute and thoughtful book, John Cottingham assesses some of the most influential attempts to explain it, ra...(展开全部)

We have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we're asking? Terry Eagleton takes a stimulating and quirky look at this most compelling of questions: at the answers explored in philosophy and literature; at the crisis of meaning in modern times; and suggests his own solution to how we might rediscover meaning in our lives...(展开全部)

《论生命的意义》主要内容内容:1930年秋，纽约。历史学家、哲学家威尔·杜兰特在家门口用耙子清理树叶。一个穿着体面的人走了过来，他用安静的口气告诉杜兰特说他准备自杀，除非这位受人尊敬的人生导师能够找到有效的理由说服他。杜兰特立即给他讲了几个活下去的理由，这个人转身就走，从此再也没有看见他。 这次对话让杜兰特不能释怀。他联系了100位艺术界、政界、宗教界和科学界的名人，请他们回答一个最基本的问题：“生意的意义是什么？”杜兰特把他们的种种回答整理成了一《论生命的意义》，叫做《论生命的意义》，该书于1932年发行。因为缺少宣传，这本宝贵的书只有很少人读到；今天，第一版的原书几乎已经找不到。 《论生命的意义》里，威尔·杜兰特将各行各业的知名人士组成了一个思想上的“梦幻组合”，书的内容不但深刻而且具有广泛的代表性，这种设计是史无前例的。诗人、哲学家、圣人、囚犯...(展开全部)

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on fundamental issues in quantum mechanics, gravitation, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He has wide-ranging interests, including in philosophy, complexity theory, and information. Carroll is an active science communicator, and has been blogging regularly since 2004. Hi...(展开全部)

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on fundamental issues in quantum mechanics, gravitation, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He has wide-ranging interests, including in philosophy, complexity theory, and information. Carroll is an active science communicator, and has been blogging regularly since 2004. Hi...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Publisher Comments : Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves — and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives — and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, r...(展开全部)

Psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom probes further into the mysteries of the therapeutic encounter in this entertaining and thoughtful follow-up to his bestselling Love's Executioner In six enthralling stories drawn from his own clinical experience, Irvin D. Yalom once again proves himself an intrepid explorer of the human psyche as he guides his patients--and himself--toward tra...(展开全部)

Psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom probes further into the mysteries of the therapeutic encounter in this entertaining and thoughtful follow-up to his bestselling Love's Executioner In six enthralling stories drawn from his own clinical experience, Irvin D. Yalom once again proves himself an intrepid explorer of the human psyche as he guides his patients--and himself--toward tra...(展开全部)

The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats—and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza...(展开全部)

There is no real evidence that humans ever 'domesticated' cats. Rather, it seems that at some point cats saw the potential value to themselves of humans. John Gray's wonderful new book is an attempt to get to grips with the philosophical and moral issues around the uniquely strange relationship between ourselves and these remarkable animals. Feline Philosophy draws on centuries...(展开全部)