随着全球资本主义势不可挡的扩张，二十世纪欧洲哲学家们所谈论的无家可归状态——海德格尔宣称这已成为“世界的命运”——其后果注定会变得越发病态。但与其幻想着对家园的一种不可能的回归，许煜指出，如今思考必须从无家可归的状态出发。 许煜吸收了吉尔贝·西蒙东、雅克·德里达、贝尔纳·斯蒂格勒和扬·帕托契卡的哲学思考以及西田几多郎、西谷启治、牟宗三等人的思想，以构想一种后欧洲思考的哲学计划。如果亚洲与欧洲要设计出对抗资本主义、技术以及行星化的新模式，那么这既不是通过中和差异也并非回归传统，而是以东西方思想间的个体化来实现。 With the unstoppable advance of global capitalism, the Heimatlosigkeit (homelessness) which twentieth-century European phi...(展开全部)

Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. They reconceptualize the m...(展开全部)

Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. They reconceptualize the m...(展开全部)

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-...(展开全部)

This book makes an essential contribution to the debate now opening up over the future of Europe in the wake of the demise of the Constitution. Since 1989 much about the European Union has changed, including the very definition of 'Europe' itself. The EU has enlarged to 25 countries and the division between Western and Eastern Europe has disappeared. The EU has responded posit...(展开全部)

If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have set their sights on the European heartland, desperate to seize this pivotal area or at least ...(展开全部)