The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to, and critiques of, the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the modern, 'bourgeois' form of life: the free, reflective, self-determining subject. Since it is a relatively recent historical development that human beings think of themselves as individual centers of agency, and that one's entitleme...(展开全部)

This book aims to chronicle the ideological impulse as it has manifested itself since the French Revolution of 1789. Whether in the form of Jacobinism, Marxist-Leninism, National Socialism, Progressive Democracy, the New Left, or the New Woke Dispensation, one witnesses the same impatience with prudent reform and piecemeal change, the same propensity to ideological Manichaeism ...(展开全部)

威廉·西尔伯（William Silber） 纽约大学斯特恩商学院金融与经济学系教授，格拉克斯曼证券市场研究学会会长。他曾是格林斯潘的老师，伯南克的同事。早年曾在纽约商品交易所当过交易员，先后出任雷曼兄弟贸易战略常务理事、总统经济顾问委员会资深经济学家、纽联储经济咨询委员会委员。他因金融学和银行学的专业度备受尊崇，曾任美联储、参议院商务委员会、众议院银行、金融服务委员会、总统金融结构和监管委员会等顾问。 西尔伯在经济学和金融史方面著述甚丰，著有《货币银行与金融市场》《当华盛顿关闭华尔街》等。

Challenging prevailing interpretations of the development of modern philosophy, this book proposes a reinterpretation of the transcendental tradition, as represented primarily by Kant and Husserl, and counters Heidegger's influential reading of these philosophers. Author David Carr defends their subtle and complex transcendental investigations of the self and the life of subjec...(展开全部)

Through a series of incisive readings of leading theoretical figures of affirmationism -- Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou -- Benjamin Noys contests the tendency of recent theory to rely on affirmation, and especially an affirmative thinking of resistance. He reveals a profound current of negativity that allows theory to return to it...(展开全部)

The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Common explanations for this disparity range from biological differences between the sexes to the conscious and unconscious biases that guide hiring and promotion decisions. "Just One of the Guys?" sheds new light on this phenomenon by a...(展开全部)

On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things, and many of her fundamental assumptions about the nature of the self and the wor...(展开全部)

Né en 1968 à Paris, Jérôme Ferrari est professeur de philosophie et conseiller pédagogique au Lycée français d’Abou Dhabi depuis la rentrée, après avoir enseigné au lycée international d’Alger puis au lycée Fesch d’Ajaccio. Ce quadragénaire à la silhouette juvénile et au regard intense, qui refuse de se dire philosophe, a bâti en six romans une oeuvre d’une grande puissance poé...(展开全部)

This sweeping generational novel, which spans the 20th century, begins with an old man considering a photograph of his long-dead siblings and mother. His bitterness about his family, with its absent father and far older brothers and sisters, is painful to him still. Yet this familial bitterness pales when compared with his profound irritation at the recent disappearance of the ...(展开全部)

At the start of the 19th century, John James Audubon embarked upon an epic ornithological quest across America with nothing but his artist's materials, an assistant and a gun. Driving him through terrible storms, encounters with ferocious bears and dangerous people, Audubon's all-consuming passion for birds came to define his entire life--but what would the world make of his ex...(展开全部)