'All too often, Karl Marx has been regarded as a demon or a deity - or a busted flush. This fresh, provocative, and hugely enjoyable book explains why, for all his shortcomings, his critique of modern society remains forcefully relevant even in the twenty-first century.' Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing l...(展开全部)

*作者简介 [英]乔纳森·沃尔夫，牛津大学政府学院公共政策教授，曾任伦敦大学学院哲学系教授、艺术与人文学院院长。他一向关注平等、弱势群体和社会正义等问题，著有《罗伯特·诺齐克》《伦理与公共政策：哲学探讨》《健康人权》等。 *译者简介 段忠桥，中国人民大学杰出人文学者特聘教授，哲学院政治哲学研究中心主任，武汉大学人文社会科学研究院驻院研究员，中国当代国外马克思主义研究会副会长。英国埃塞克斯大学哲学博士，牛津大学万灵学院客座研究员。

'All too often, Karl Marx has been regarded as a demon or a deity - or a busted flush. This fresh, provocative, and hugely enjoyable book explains why, for all his shortcomings, his critique of modern society remains forcefully relevant even in the twenty-first century.' Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing l...(展开全部)

*作者简介 [英]乔纳森·沃尔夫，牛津大学政府学院公共政策教授，曾任伦敦大学学院哲学系教授、艺术与人文学院院长。他一向关注平等、弱势群体和社会正义等问题，著有《罗伯特·诺齐克》《伦理与公共政策：哲学探讨》《健康人权》等。 *译者简介 段忠桥，中国人民大学杰出人文学者特聘教授，哲学院政治哲学研究中心主任，武汉大学人文社会科学研究院驻院研究员，中国当代国外马克思主义研究会副会长。英国埃塞克斯大学哲学博士，牛津大学万灵学院客座研究员。

彼得·奥斯本（Peter Osborne ），伦敦密德萨斯大学（Middlesex University）的现代欧洲哲学教授，同时还是期刊《激进哲学》（Radical Philosophy）的编辑。他的著作包括《时间的政治》（The Politics of Time）、《文化理论中的哲学》（Philosophy in Cultural Theory ）和《概念艺术》（Conceptual Art）。他还是三卷本《瓦尔特·本雅明：文化理论中的批判性评估》（Walter Benjamin: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory）的编辑。

Intent on letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading classic authors, the How to Read series will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl Marx’s writings, Peter Osborne presents Marx’s thought as a developing investigation into what it means, c...(展开全部)

In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on - he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own th...(展开全部)

Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our lives of crucial writers of the Western canon. Here - spanning more than two millennia, from antiquity to postmodernis...(展开全部)

Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a critical standard for judging what is wrong with politics today. Richard J. Bernstein argues that Arendt should...(展开全部)

"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when fast...(展开全部)