Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. Are the German people guilty?These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an outstanding European philosopher, attracted wide attention among German intellectuals and students; they seemed to offer a path to sanity an...(展开全部)

Why are Germans so well informed on World War II while most Japanese know almost nothing about it? Why do the majority of West Germans feel guilty, Japanese victimised, and 'Ossies' virtuous? Ian Buruma explores the causes of these varied attitudes, both in the past culture of each country and in their post-war treatment and other subsequent events, and looks at how they were ...(展开全部)

In this book, Jonathan Spence tells the story of a man called John Hu, who accompanied a French missionary returning from Canton to France in 1722. Jonathan Spence has written several books including, "The Gates of Heavenly Peace" and "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci".

The Question of Bruno is a novella and stories that are linked by characters, by locations, by interwoven substories, and by a literary voice so strong and sensitive that no matter how many guises it adopts, the stories cannot help but gather momentum and join together as a powerfully inventive whole. Set in Chicago and Sarajevo, it is a book about the trauma of war, about how ...(展开全部)

In this book, Jonathan Spence tells the story of a man called John Hu, who accompanied a French missionary returning from Canton to France in 1722. Jonathan Spence has written several books including, "The Gates of Heavenly Peace" and "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci".

Those nonhuman beings called "animals" pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when "the other" can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture an...(展开全部)

Those nonhuman beings called "animals" pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when "the other" can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture an...(展开全部)

瓦尔特·本雅明（1892—1940），德国文学家、思想家，因其博学和敏锐而享誉世界，被视为20世纪前半期德国最重要的文学评论家，被誉为“欧洲最后一位知识分子”。他学术视野开阔，学术眼光独到，著作宏富，著有《德意志悲苦剧的起源》、《德国浪漫派的艺术批评概念》、《可技术复制 时代的艺术作品》、《评歌德的<亲和力>》、《摄影小史》、《柏林童年》、《德意志人》等名著，尚留下六册书信集。作为众所周知的思想家，其论著丰富的解释力吸引越来越多学者的目光，俨然成为重审现代性与欧洲文化史的关键节点。

瓦尔特·本雅明（1892—1940），德国文学家、思想家，因其博学和敏锐而享誉世界，被视为20世纪前半期德国最重要的文学评论家，被誉为“欧洲最后一位知识分子”。他学术视野开阔，学术眼光独到，著作宏富，著有《德意志悲苦剧的起源》、《德国浪漫派的艺术批评概念》、《可技术复制 时代的艺术作品》、《评歌德的<亲和力>》、《摄影小史》、《柏林童年》、《德意志人》等名著，尚留下六册书信集。作为众所周知的思想家，其论著丰富的解释力吸引越来越多学者的目光，俨然成为重审现代性与欧洲文化史的关键节点。

"Will a more important book on Heidegger appear in our time? No, not unless Derrida continues to think and write in his spirit. . . . Let there be no mistake: this is not merely a brilliant book on Heidegger, it is thinking in the grand style."--David Farrell Krell,; IResearch in Phenomenology; X