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)

拉斯基（Harold Joseph Laski，1893-1950），政治学家，英国工党领导人之一，西方“民主社会主义”重要理论家。拉斯基一生著述三十多部，此外尚有大量的小册子、论文、演讲稿等，内容涉及社会科学许多领域，鼓吹民主社会主义，主张“一步推动，一点一滴改良”的费边主义，反对无产阶级专政。拉斯基在欧美思想界有着重大的影响，被誉为与罗素、林赛并列的英国三大思想领袖之一。 朱曾汶，我国著名翻译家，共计为商务印书馆翻译了包括“汉译世界学术名著丛书”在内的14本专著。

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 "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)

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)

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)

托尼·朱特（Tony Judt，1948—2010） 当代最著名的欧洲问题和欧洲思想研究专家。1948年出生于英国伦敦，毕业于剑桥大学国王学院和巴黎高等师范学校，后执教于剑桥、牛津、伯克利和纽约大学。1995年创办雷马克研究所，专事研究欧洲问题。经常为《纽约时报》、《泰晤士报文学副刊》、《新共和》等撰稿。著有《责任的重负：布鲁姆、加缪、阿隆和法国的20世纪》、《战后欧洲史》、《重估价值：反思被遗忘的20世纪》、《沉疴遍地》、《记忆小屋》、《思虑二十世纪》等作品。其中《战后欧洲史》被认为是无法被超越的史学著作。2007年获汉娜·阿伦特奖，2009年因他的“智慧、洞察力和非凡的勇气”获奥威尔终身成就奖。2010年8月因病去世。 译者介绍： 林骧华 复旦大学出版社编审，现任质量总监、外语学科总监、审读中心主任。译著有《西方四大批评家》、《辩证理性批判》、《...(展开全部)

As Tony Judt argues persuasively in "Reappraisals", we have entered an 'age of forgetting'. Today's world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it. We literally don't know where we came from, and the results of this burgeoning ignorance are proving calamitous, with the clear prospect ...(展开全部)