In Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and other parts of East and Southeast Asia, as well as China, people are asking "What does Confucianism have to offer today?" For some, Confucius is still the symbol of a reactionary and repressive past. For others, he is the humanist admired by generations of scholars and thinkers, East and West, for his ethical system and discipline, among other qu...(展开全部)

狄百瑞（William Theodore de Bary，1919—）前哥伦比亚大学校长，东亚语言和文化系教授，是海外研究中国思想的著名学者。主要著作有：《为己之学》，《东亚文明：五个阶段的对话》，《中国的自由传统》，编写了影响广泛的《中国传统资料选编》。

随着东亚的复兴，儒家思想重新成为全世界学术领域的重要话题，东亚的崛起与儒家思想有什么关系？儒家的人格在现代社会中能起到何种作用？ 作者用旧约传统中的先知同中国儒家传统中的君子进行比较，认为真正的君子就是要对朝廷的不义进行谴责和矫枉。君子和帝王之间的张力是中国政治中重要的主题。 君子的力量源于替百姓和上天代言的社会角色，但是君子却没有有效地得到百姓的托付，也没有从上天那里获得宗教性的支撑，而是一直陷入黎民苍生和专制皇权的裂缝之中，这成了历史上儒家最大的困境。

A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventiona...(展开全部)

The Trouble with Happiness is a short-story collection from Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, never before translated in English A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife’s beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales o...(展开全部)

Conspiracy. Betrayal. Rebellion. Peace is just another kind of battlefield... Savine dan Glokta, once Adua’s most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way. For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal ...(展开全部)

“In times of peace the warlike man attacks himself.” – Friedrich Nietzche Savine dan Glokta, once Adua’s most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way. For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to e...(展开全部)

“In times of peace the warlike man attacks himself.” – Friedrich Nietzche Savine dan Glokta, once Adua’s most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way. For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to e...(展开全部)

齐奥朗（1911-1995），也译作萧沆，罗马尼亚文学家和哲学家，二十世纪怀疑论、虚无主义重要思想家。以罗马尼亚语及法语创作格言、断章体哲学著述传世，以文辞精雅新奇、思想深邃激烈见称，被称为“法国的尼采”。文笔犀利、简洁、优雅，悲观忧郁的字里行间不时流露出黑色幽默。其代 表作有《在绝望之巅》《解体概要》《生存的诱惑》《痛苦三段论》《眼泪与圣徒》《齐奥朗笔记》等。

In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, that laughable accident. In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion...(展开全部)