As one who has written extensively about the interior life, meditation, and psychotherapy, Ken Wilber—the leading theorist in the field of integral psychology—naturally arouses the curiosity of his numerous readers. In response to this curiosity, this one-year diary not only offers an unprecedented entrée into his private world, but offers an introduction to his essential thoug...(展开全部)

In "Reflections on Judging," Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Surveying how the judiciary has changed since his 1981 appointment, he engages the issues at stake today, suggesting how lawyers should argue cases and judges decide them, how trials can be improved, and, most urge...(展开全部)

真的。你沒有一刻不曾體會過「一味」它是：在你將它切割之前的每個經驗的本性就像北極風的冰寒一樣，在百億年中你未曾有過一秒不是冰寒不是風，它是－－整個宇宙中唯一的常數你我不可避免的狀態，事事物物的實相，只是，我們經常對自已隱暪這一點一味！一味隱瞞…… 這本札記告訴我們身心靈並非互不相容的，肉體的慾望、心智的理念與靈魂的了悟都是宇宙神性的完美展，大圓滿的莊嚴情態。整個法界只有「一味」，而這滋味是全然神聖的，不論它是展現在肉體上、心智上或靈魂上。安住在這「一味」中，超越於塵囂之上，世界從最純粹的解脫之光升起。樂在無限，迷失於永恒，在本來面目無情的奧妙中，放下了所有的希望。萬物來自「一味」，萬物亦歸返「一味」－－存在於其中的，就是當下這一刻的故事。一切只不過是南柯一夢或噩夢連連，無論如何，我們終將從其中覺醒。

Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms. He points out that the Psalms are poems, intended to be sung, not doctrinal treatises or sermons. Proceeding with his characteristic grace, he guides readers through both the form and the meaning of these beloved passages in the Bible.

This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der Zee, and so forth) are reprinted throughout the text.

In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the arts to bear witness to and explain the links between modernity, progress and humanity, and the difficult transition to postmode...(展开全部)

This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der Zee, and so forth) are reprinted throughout the text.

Newton/Descartes. Einstein/Gödel. The seventeenth century had its scientific and philosophical geniuses. Why shouldn't ours have them as well? Kurt Gödel was indisputably one of the greatest thinkers of our time, and in this first extended treatment of his life and work, Hao Wang, who was in close contact with Gödel in his last years, brings out the full subtlety of Gödel's ide...(展开全部)