"Our attempt at a new understanding of the trial of Socrates will also become a fresh look at classical antiquity. It is our yesterday and we cannot understand ourselves without it." Thus Izzy Stone approaches the death of a secular saint and the decline of democracy in Athens four centuries before Christ. Stone brings to his penetrating documentation of the missing prosecution...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house,...(展开全部)

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his...(展开全部)

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to...(展开全部)

The adversary system of trial, the defining feature of the Anglo-American criminal procedure developed late in English legal history. For centuries, defendants were forbidden to have counsel, and lawyers seldom appeared for the prosecution either. Trial was meant to be an occasion for the defendant to answer the charges in person. The transformation from lawyer-free to lawyer-d...(展开全部)

The lawyer-dominated adversary system of criminal trial, which now typifies practice in Anglo-American legal systems, developed in England in the eighteenth century. Using hitherto unexplored sources from London's Old Bailey Court, Professor Langbein shows how and why lawyers were able to capture the trial, and he supplies a path-breaking account of the formation of the law of ...(展开全部)

埃里克·方纳 埃里克•方纳是哥伦比亚大学德威特•克林顿历史学教授，美国最杰出的历史学家之一。他在哥伦比亚大学获得博士学位，师从理查德•霍夫斯塔特。方纳教授的著作集中关注思想史、政治史和社会史的交汇，以及美国种族关系史。 译者：于留振，重庆大学人文社会高等研究院史学研究中心讲师，中美富布赖特项目哥伦比亚大学访问博士生。

埃里克·方纳 埃里克•方纳是哥伦比亚大学德威特•克林顿历史学教授，美国最杰出的历史学家之一。他在哥伦比亚大学获得博士学位，师从理查德•霍夫斯塔特。方纳教授的著作集中关注思想史、政治史和社会史的交汇，以及美国种族关系史。 译者：于留振，重庆大学人文社会高等研究院史学研究中心讲师，中美富布赖特项目哥伦比亚大学访问博士生。