Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger’s concept of ‘being-towards-death’ and proposes a new understanding of the political and philosophical subject. Dickens, Nabokov, Hugo, Sophocles and many others explore capital punishment in their works, from Antigone to Invitation to a Beheading. Using these varied case studies, Aquilina...(展开全部)

Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger’s concept of ‘being-towards-death’ and proposes a new understanding of the political and philosophical subject. Dickens, Nabokov, Hugo, Sophocles and many others explore capital punishment in their works, from Antigone to Invitation to a Beheading. Using these varied case studies, Aquilina...(展开全部)

Jerry Broadfield thinks he's a good cop. But he's been charged with extortion - and his former buddies in the NYPD would like to see him laid bare out on a morgue slab for squealing to a committee on police corruption. And when a dead hooker turns up in his apartment, he's saddled with a murder rap as well. Broadfield screams "frame-up" and nobody believes him - except ex-polic...(展开全部)

Jerry Broadfield thinks he's a good cop. But he's been charged with extortion - and his former buddies in the NYPD would like to see him laid bare out on a morgue slab for squealing to a committee on police corruption. And when a dead hooker turns up in his apartment, he's saddled with a murder rap as well. Broadfield screams "frame-up" and nobody believes him - except ex-polic...(展开全部)

欧内斯特·范·登·哈格，博士，福德汉姆大学的约翰·M·奥林法学与公共政策研究中心教授(1983年写作本书时)，遗产基金会方面的著名学者。曾任教于纽约大学、纽约法学院、瓦瑟学院和新社会调查学院等。著有The Jewish Mystique Punishing Criminals他还参撰了40多部著作的部分章节，写了无数的文章，散见于《纽约时报》、《哈伯杂志》(Harper’s)、《大西洋月刊》、《财富》和《国家评论》等，以及许多法律杂志和学术类出版物。

欧内斯特·范·登·哈格，博士，福德汉姆大学的约翰·M·奥林法学与公共政策研究中心教授(1983年写作本书时)，遗产基金会方面的著名学者。曾任教于纽约大学、纽约法学院、瓦瑟学院和新社会调查学院等。著有The Jewish Mystique Punishing Criminals他还参撰了40多部著作的部分章节，写了无数的文章，散见于《纽约时报》、《哈伯杂志》(Harper’s)、《大西洋月刊》、《财富》和《国家评论》等，以及许多法律杂志和学术类出版物。

Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of this century. While her novels masquerade as witty comedies of manners, set in the lavish country houses of the Anglo-Irish or in elegant London homes, they mine the depths of private tragedy with a subtle ferocity and psychological complexity reminiscent of Henry James.The Death of the Heart, a story o...(展开全部)

伊丽莎白•鲍恩 Elizabeth Bowen，1899—1973 英国小说家，以其关于战时伦敦生活的小说而闻名。鲍恩于1899年出生于都柏林，中学时期就读肯特郡的唐屋中学。在伦敦艺术学校学习了一段时间后，她决定开始写作。1923年，出版短篇小说集《遭遇》（Encounters）。1937年，鲍恩成为爱尔兰文学院的一员。“二战”期间，鲍恩在伦敦的英国信息部工作，这段经历帮助她写出了关于战时伦敦生活最伟大的作品《炎热的一天》（In The Heat of the Day），1948年，她被授予大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）。 鲍恩一生创作了十部长篇小说、七十多个短篇小说，以及大量的文学评论和随笔。她的作品洞察入微，主要关注英格兰和爱尔兰中上阶层人群的情感和彼此之间的微妙关系。她早期创作的小说以机智和嘲弄著称，二十世纪三十年代之后的作品则表现出一种悲剧情感。...(展开全部)

It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her and looking for something that is not there. Evident victim, she is also an inadvertent victimiser - her impossible lovingness...(展开全部)

The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida’s most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Czech philosopher Jan Patocka’s Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of Hist...(展开全部)