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)

Kant describes the concept of freedom as "the keystone of the whole structure of a system of pure reason, even of speculative reason." Kant's theory of freedom thus plays a foundational and unifying role in all aspects of his philosophy and is thus of significant interest to historians of Kant's philosophy. Kant's theory of freedom has also played a significant role in contempo...(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。

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。

Contributions to Phenomenology, Vol. 71

Inthe name of an assault on totalization and identity, a number ofcontemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism's dialecticaland utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernism and post-politics. A case in point is recent interpretation of one of thegreatest twentieth-century philosophers, Theodor Adorno. In thispowerful book, Fredric Jameson proposes a radically...(展开全部)

While examining the history of our planet and actively exploring our present environment, science journalist Michael Tennesen describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction. A growing number of scientists agree we are headed toward a mass extinction, perhaps in as little as 300 years. Already there have been five mass extinctions in the last 600 mil...(展开全部)

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)

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)