The "holy poor" have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the "real" poor, these clergymen, teachers, and ascetics have historically been viewed by their fellow Christians as persons who should receive material support in exchange for offering immeasurable immaterial benefits―teaching, preaching, and prayer. Supporting them―quite as much as suppor...(展开全部)

Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later came to be regarded as a force driving the movement of the cosmos and as a home to deities and imaginary animals. By the Han dynasty, which saw an outpouring of visual materials depicting Heaven, the concept of Heaven encompassed...(展开全部)

Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later came to be regarded as a force driving the movement of the cosmos and as a home to deities and imaginary animals. By the Han dynasty, which saw an outpouring of visual materials depicting Heaven, the concept of Heaven encompassed...(展开全部)

布洛赫（Ernst Bloch 1885—1977）,德国著名哲学家。是第二次世界大战后德国最有独创性的马克思主义哲学家和对马克思主义传统作出创新的人物。布洛赫著作是具有包罗万象性质的形而上学体系。在哲学的贫乏时代，布洛赫通过一系列伟大著作使形而上学重新成为真理与现实。

Slavoj Žižek is one of the most prolific and well-known philosophers and cultural theorists in the world today. His inventive, provocative body of work mixes Hegelian metaphysics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist dialectic in order to challenge conventional wisdom and accepted verities on both the Left and the Right.

Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to money and set the stage for its domination of mediev...(展开全部)

柯瑞思（Nicholas Chrimes），1973年毕业于布里斯托大学和法国枫丹白露欧洲工商管理学院（1981），曾工作于大型跨国公司，后来自己经营公司，十年后卖掉公司，来到剑桥做导游。他是剑桥知名的蓝牌导游，在剑桥无人不知，受人尊敬。现在剑桥大学的菲茨威廉博物館（the Fitzwilliam Museum）、剑桥大学植物园（the University Botanic Garden）工作。同时在克莱尔学院（Clare College）当助理研究员。

“Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are usually described, ‘working poor,’ should be an oxymoron. Nobody who works hard should be poor in America.” —from ...(展开全部)

“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known a...(展开全部)