Those nonhuman beings called "animals" pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when "the other" can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture an...(展开全部)

Those nonhuman beings called "animals" pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when "the other" can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture an...(展开全部)

Zoographies challenges the anthropocentrism of the Continental philosophical tradition and advances the position that, while some distinctions are valid, humans and animals are best viewed as part of an ontological whole. Matthew Calarco draws on ethological and evolutionary evidence and the work of Heidegger, who called for a radicalized responsibility toward all forms of life...(展开全部)

In this book, Jonathan Spence tells the story of a man called John Hu, who accompanied a French missionary returning from Canton to France in 1722. Jonathan Spence has written several books including, "The Gates of Heavenly Peace" and "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci".

The Question of Bruno is a novella and stories that are linked by characters, by locations, by interwoven substories, and by a literary voice so strong and sensitive that no matter how many guises it adopts, the stories cannot help but gather momentum and join together as a powerfully inventive whole. Set in Chicago and Sarajevo, it is a book about the trauma of war, about how ...(展开全部)

In this book, Jonathan Spence tells the story of a man called John Hu, who accompanied a French missionary returning from Canton to France in 1722. Jonathan Spence has written several books including, "The Gates of Heavenly Peace" and "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci".

彼得·辛格（Peter Singer） 澳大利亚著名道德哲学家，现代效用主义代表人物，全球动物解放（保护）运动的倡导者，曾任国际伦理学学会主席、美国普林斯顿大学生物伦理学教授、澳大利亚墨尔本大学应用哲学与公共伦理中心荣誉教授，专事应用伦理学的研究。 他于 1946年6月6日出生于澳大利亚墨尔本。父亲和母亲是奥地利被纳粹攻占后的犹太移民。1938 年他们从维也纳逃到澳大利亚。彼得 · 辛格的父亲是位成功的茶与咖啡进口商，祖父曾与弗洛伊德共同发表多篇文章。他有三位祖辈死于大屠杀。 他师从英国道德哲学家理查德 · 麦尔文· 黑尔（RichardMervyn Hare）教授，于1971年获得了牛津大学博士学位。他先后在牛津大学、纽约大学、莫纳什大学及普林斯顿大学等高校执教，曾在莫纳什大学成立人类生物伦理学中心。 1971年，《饥荒，富裕与道德 》（ Fami...(展开全部)

Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. Are the German people guilty?These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an outstanding European philosopher, attracted wide attention among German intellectuals and students; they seemed to offer a path to sanity an...(展开全部)

If animal behavior is mostly instinctual, why do animals need to communicate? Is it possible that there is a universal language spoken and understood by all animals on earth, including humans? Do barks, growls, rumbles, chirps, yips, and meows have communicative meanings?"No matter what species," writes acclaimed science journalist Tim Friend, "we're all concerned with the same...(展开全部)

Destined to be the ultimate authority on animal communities, Animal Life explores and explains every aspect of animal behavior, including courtship and mating rituals, family relationships and defense mechanisms, hunting techniques and feeding habits. Now in paperback!