Why I Am Not a Christian is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant. If religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought ...(展开全部)

Why I Am Not a Christian is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant. If religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought ...(展开全部)

Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions th...(展开全部)

Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, and celebrities promoting the notion that Buddhism is spirituality for the rational; compatible with cutting-edge science; indeed, “...(展开全部)

布罗尼斯拉夫·马林诺夫斯基（Bronislaw Malinowski，1884年—1942年），生于波兰，在英国成为著名人类学家。他是现代人类学的奠基人之一，倡导以功能论的思想和方法论从事文化的研究，著有《文化论》，讲述功能派的文化理论；《西太平洋的航海者》典范地展示现代田野工作与民族志方法；《文化动态论》，讲述文化变迁分析的方法，指出文化不是历史的残存，而是人生活的工具。 李安宅，1900年生，河北省迁安县人。字仁斋，笔名任责。中国著名社会学、人类学、民族学家。1926年燕京大学社会学系毕业，后赴美国深造。1938年赴甘肃拉卜楞寺对藏传佛教进行实地考察，后任教于成都华西大学。1947年到1949年在美英从事研究工作。1950年进藏任教。1962年任教于四川师范学院，1985年逝世。一生致力于民族学、宗教学、社会学、藏学的研究。译著和专著有《巫术科学...(展开全部)

Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist… or so the feminists keep insisting. But somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, inef...(展开全部)

Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist… or so the feminists keep insisting. But somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, inef...(展开全部)

Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for 'egocentric presentism', a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view. A natural thought about our first-person experience is that 'all and only the things of which I am aware are present to me'. Hare, however, goes one step further and claims...(展开全部)

Women, Art, and Power-seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history-brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.

Orhan Pamuk’s first book since winning the Nobel Prize, Other Colors is a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers. Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces—personal, critical, and meditative—the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a wi...(展开全部)