In The Earthly Community: Reflections on the Last Utopia Achille Mbembe explores what remains of the human subject in an age when the instrumentality of reason is carried out by and through information machines and technologies of calculation. Mbembe discusses who will define the threshold or set the boundary that distinguishes between the calculable and the incalculable, betw...(展开全部)

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.

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)

塞缪尔·莫恩，哈佛大学法学与历史学教授，曾任哥伦比亚大学历史系詹姆斯·布赖斯讲座教授，于2000年和2001年分别获得加州大学伯克利分校历史学博士和哈佛大学法律博士。主要研究欧洲现代思想史，偏重政治与法律思想、史学理论和犹太研究，近年来关注人权的历史研究。2008年获古根海姆奖金。参与编辑《人文》、《现代思想史》等学术杂志。著有《他者的起源》、《辩论大屠杀》、《最后的乌托邦》等。

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about t...(展开全部)

Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. Above all, he commented on change. He tried to teach lessons about how change should be managed, what limits shoul...(展开全部)

Hear Lawrence Buell, Michael Sandel, Stanley Cavell, and Wai Chee Dimock speak at the Bicentennial Emerson Forum to be held April 3, 2003 at Harvard University. Read more...

作者简介： 莫里斯•布朗肖（Maurice Blanchot，1907—2003），法国作家、文学理论家。布朗肖早年于斯特拉斯堡大学研读哲学，并与列维纳斯结下友谊。40年代初他为《论争报》撰写文学评论，并陆续发表《黑暗托马》、《死刑判决》等虚构作品。“二战”后他成为了重要的批评力量，尤其是50年代起在《新法兰西评论》上的高产写作，确立了他在思想界的地位，影响了包括福柯和德里达在内的整整一代法国理论家。布朗肖虽在战后保持一种近乎隐士的生活，但他却是《121宣言》和“五月风暴”等政治运动和历史事件的亲身参与者。《不可言明的共通体》是其晚期的代表作之一。 译者简介： 夏可君，哲学博士，曾留学于德国弗莱堡大学与法国斯特拉斯堡大学，2007年起任教于中国人民大学文学院，已出版著作十余部，包括《无余与感通：源自中国经验的世界哲学》、《虚薄：杜尚与庄子》、《平淡的...(展开全部)