达维德•范雷布鲁克（1971~），比利时非虚构作家、剧作家、诗人。先后出版了畅销书《瘟疫》(De Plaag，2008)、《任务与白蚁的灵魂》(Missie & Die siel van die Mier，2011)、《刚果：一部历史》（Congo. Een geschiedenis，2011）等。其中《刚果：一部历史》是他最成功的著作，荣获2012年美第奇奖（le prix Médicis），并被翻译成多种语言。

Tongdong Bai is the Dongfang Professor of Philosophy at Fudan University in Shanghai and a Global Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. His books include China: The Political Philosophy of the Middle Kingdom.

What might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like? In Against Political Equality, Tongdong Bai offers a possibility inspired by Confucian ideas. Bai argues that domestic governance influenced by Confucianism can embrace the liberal aspects of democracy along with the democratic ideas of equal opportunities and governmental accountability to the people. Bu...(展开全部)

A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and family. Most people, including many policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers, have encouraged us to be more empathetic—to feel the pain and pleasure of oth...(展开全部)

保罗·布卢姆（Paul Bloom） 知名认知心理学家和发展心理学家、耶鲁大学公开课最受欢迎教授、TED演讲人。布卢姆是耶鲁大学最受欢迎、最风趣的心理学教授之一。他的心理学导论课是耶鲁大学最受欢迎的公开课之一，全球有上千万人观看、学习这一公开课的视频。 布卢姆是《科学》杂志评出的Twitter上最有影响力的50位明星科学家之一，美国哲学与心理学协会前任主席，《行为与脑科学》杂志联合主编。 布卢姆因出色的研究和教学工作而获奖无数。他的文章屡见于《纽约时报杂志》《自然》《纽约客》《科学》等刊物。著有畅销书《善恶之源》《快感：为什么它让我们欲罢不能》。

In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is the problem; a source of prejudice, not kindness. We think of empathy – the ability to feel the suffering of others for ourselves – as the ultimate source of all good behaviour. But while it inspires care and protection in personal relationships, it has the opposite effect in the wider world. As the latest research in psych...(展开全部)

A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and family. Most people, including many policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers, have encouraged us to be more empathetic—to feel the pain and pleasure of oth...(展开全部)

This is an exploration of the ambivalent relationship between revolutionary politics and modernist or avant-garde art. Williams clarifies many of the issues that have dogged recent critical discussion: the term “modernism” itself; the distinction between modernism and avant garde; and the possibility of a cultural theory “beyond the modern” which avoids the pitfalls of postmode...(展开全部)