亚瑟•梅尔泽（Arthur M.Melzer），美国密歇根州立大学政府系教授，专攻政治思想。1992至1994年，梅尔泽为哈佛大学客座教授和访问学者。他在康奈尔大学获得学士学位（1971年），在哈佛大学获得博士学位（1978年）。他的博士论文获得了哈佛大学政府系颁发的Toppan奖，以及美国政治科学协会颁发的施特劳斯奖。他的研究主要集中在让-雅克•卢梭上。 译者任崇彬：复旦大学政治学系博士毕业，研究方向为政治哲学，现供职于中央党校政法部。博士论文题目为《自然与德性：卢梭政治哲学思想研究》。

The true key to all the perplexities of the human condition, Rousseau boldly claims, is the "natural goodness of man." It is also the key to his own notoriously contradictory writings, which, he insists, are actually the disassembled parts of a rigorous philosophical system rooted in that fundamental principle. What if this problematic claim-so often repeated, but as often dism...(展开全部)

I begin with the preliminary question of the conformity of faith with reason- and the use of philosophy in theology- because it has much influence on the main subject of my treatise- and because M. Bayle introduces it everywhere.' (jExcerpt from text)

I begin with the preliminary question of the conformity of faith with reason- and the use of philosophy in theology- because it has much influence on the main subject of my treatise- and because M. Bayle introduces it everywhere.' (jExcerpt from text)

A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller's treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy's most profound works. An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary society -- and of the French Revolution, in particular -- to define the relationship between beauty and art.

雅克·马里旦，20世纪最重要的托马斯主义哲学家。其著述涉及形而上学、认识论、道德哲学、政治哲学、美学等思想领域。极大地推动了托马斯主义在20世纪的复兴，其影响波及欧洲、美国以及拉丁美洲。著有《知识诸维度》《形而上学导论》《整体人本主义》《人权与自然法》等。 吴彦，同济大学法学院副教授，牛津大学访问学者，主要研究领域为法哲学、政治哲学与宪法理论。

David Foster Wallace, who is twenty-four years old, is a 1985 graduate of Amherst College. He is currently studying for a MFA at the university of Arizona in Tucson.(物是人非啊……)

'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as "modern fiction". He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' Zadie Smith ...(展开全部)

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.