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The Art of Philosophizing

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 1:31:54 PST

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Studies on rational conjecture, inference, and reckoning.

Bird Lives!

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 0:03:58 PST

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This work on Charlie "Bird" Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; his great appetites; the extent of his influence; and his work.

Moving to Higher Ground

Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:53:28 PST

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In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect ...

Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words

Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:08:53 PST

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Louis Armstrong has been the subject of countless biographies and music histories. Yet scant attention has been paid to the remarkable array of writings he left behind. Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words introduces readers to a little-known facet of this master trumpeter, band leader, and entertainer. Based on extensive research through the Armstrong archives, this important volume includes some o ...

The Ingmar Bergman Archives

Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:07:13 PST

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This book presents the complete works of Ingmar Bergman: an homage to one of the most esteemed film and theater artists of all time, began in cooperation with Bergman himself and made with full access to his archives.Since 1957, when he released "The Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries", Ingmar Bergman has been one of the leading figures in international cinema, along with others such as Federic ...

給我搖擺，其餘免談

Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:06:14 PST

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　　本書是村上春樹2005年年底出版的新作，收錄了村上為音樂雜誌寫的專欄，談十位音樂人的文章：如爵士鋼琴大師希達．華頓（Cedar Walton）、海灘男孩靈魂人物布萊恩．威爾森（Brian Wilson）、古典音樂家舒伯特(Franz Schubert)、爵士樂手史坦．蓋茲（Stan Getz）、搖滾樂的「工人皇帝」布魯斯．史賓斯汀（Bruce Springsteen）、鋼琴家賽爾金與魯賓斯坦（Rudolf Serkin & Artur Rubinstein）、爵士樂掌櫃溫頓．馬沙利斯（Wynton Marsalis）、日本年輕創作□□□□□（Sugashikao）、法國作曲家法蘭西斯．浦朗克（Francis Poulenc）、民謠歌手伍迪．葛斯利（Woody Guthrie）。　　各篇文章還附上該位音樂家的唱片封面，更增趣味。書名也很音樂，從艾靈頓公爵的名曲” It d ...

新帝國主義

Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:05:42 PST

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小布希、脾氣跩。偷油吃、下不來。美國會不會唏哩呼嚕滾下來？　　世人都感到困惑與憂慮，美國在世界舞台上已突然轉變成相當具脅迫性的政體，這是它強盛還是衰弱的跡象？伊拉克戰爭中真正難以預料的是什麼？這全和石油有關嗎？如果不是，又包藏了什麼理由？經濟衰退在美國對外冒險主義上扮演什麼角色？美國對外的軍事主義和國內政治間真正的關係是什麼？這些問題，將在這本扣人心弦又見解獨到的作品中一一解答。作者簡介大衛．哈維（David Harvey）　　是當代最重要的馬克思主義地理學家。他致力將馬克思主義的分析洞見，運用於都市發展、環境生態、時空關係與意識、後現代情境、城市與社會正義、全球化、文化產業與經濟等議題，企圖從地理學角度補充修正馬克思主義理論的基本原則，提出了「歷史地理唯物論」（historical geographical materialism）的分析視野。　　1935年 ...

Satchmo

Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:04:23 PST

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"A valuable, jubilant look at a great man and artist."-New York Times Book Review Gary Giddins has been called "the best jazz writer in America today" (Esquire). Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz musician of the century. Together this auspicious pairing has resulted in Satchmo, one of the most vivid and fascinating portraits ever drawn of perhaps the greatest figure in the ...

What to Listen for in Jazz

Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:03:58 PST

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Barry Kernfeld provides an introduction to jazz, discussing its musical concepts, procedures and styles, providing the background to this musical art. The book is organized around 21 historical jazz recordings - from the New Orleans Rhythm Kings' "Tin Roof Blues" (1923) to Ornette Coleman's "Honeymooners" (1987) - that are analyzed in the text and included in a free compact disc that accompanies ...

How the Mind Works

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:18:27 PST

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From bestselling author Stephen Pinker, "How the Mind Works" draws on the latest scientific research to present a blueprint for the most sophisticated machine on Earth: the human brain. Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do fools fall in love? Why do people believe in ghosts? How do we recognize a face? "How the Mind Works" explores every aspect of our brains, showing that our minds a ...

The Stuff of Thought

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:17:54 PST

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The Unknown God

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:30:29 PST

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Kenny writes: "By profession I am a philosopher: and in the present century philosophers in this country have been keen to emphasise not only the difficulty of stating God`s will on particular issues but the difficulty for human beings of saying anything intelligible at all about the nature of God. It is probably true to say that the majority of philosophers in this country in the last fifty year ...

A Brief History of the Paradox

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:29:54 PST

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Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, thro ...

Fences and Windows

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 8:59:40 PST

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Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, the author of "No Logo" offers a bird's-eye view of the life of an activist and the development of the "anti-globalization" movement from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through September 11, 2001. [예스24 제공]

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 8:59:13 PST

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This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy, offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary exponent of the philosophy behind that tradition. Rawls's goal in the lectures was, he wrote, "to identify the more central features of ...

無權力者的權力

Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:13:44 PST

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本書是捷克前總統哈維爾的文集，精選了他多年來在各界發表的文章，其內容不僅包涵他在政治立場上的見地，還充分反應了其身為知識分子的自覺、對自己的期許和對於世界的展望。在本書中，我們可以瞥見一位既是詩人、劇作家，又是一國元首這樣具有多重身分的靈魂的語言，在機智理性思考的文思裡，還夾雜著感性的宣言。

Confessions of a Philosopher

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:27:23 PST

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Magee is very good at untangling difficult concepts and giving you just enough on each philosopher so that you feel you know in essence what they were about. His enthusiasm is utterly infectious so that you want to read, or re-read, some of the philosophical works he discusses. He writes with great fluency and clarity, and makes you fell as if philosophy is something to do with your reality.

Instant Light

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 9:05:18 PST

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　　塔可夫斯基在這本書裡，向我們展示了拍立得的最大潛能：他的影像，似乎在那一刻捕捉了永恆。　　「塔可夫斯基經常思考時光流逝之道，而這正是他想要的：停住時光，即便是以這些快速的拍立得影像……這些影像留給我們一種神祕而詩意的感受，一種與事物永別的哀傷。彷彿是安德烈想要盡快將自身的愉悅傳遞給他人。它們是拿來分享的事物，而不只是使他那停住時光的心願成真的方法。那感覺像是，深情的惜別。」　　安德烈．塔可夫斯基於1979-1984年間，在俄國及義大利拍下這60張拍立得。這一系列拍攝精巧的生活小品讓我們看到，這位導演不單是流動影像的大師，在捕捉靜止畫面上也同樣傑出。　　第一部的相片攝於俄國，在塔可夫斯基的鄉間居所一帶，那曳長的陰影、晨霧間朦朧的樹影皆帶著熾熱哀愁，同時還有他妻子、兒子、愛犬的肖像，配上從他日後的日記裡摘錄出來的句子，畫面更添鄉愁。那些在義大利所拍的照片，則描繪了精緻細 ...

讀者

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 9:02:02 PST

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要數香港成功的書籍中介人，絕對有梁文道的份兒。他的書評既有角度，又不會流於孤芳自賞。《弱水三千》是他的書評集錄，透過這本作品，他分享了自己的「課外閱讀報告」，深得一眾愛書之人的支持。經過兩年時間，《弱水三千Ⅱ》載譽重來，為大家介紹更多好書。作者簡介:本地公共知識份子代表人物、牛棚書院院長、電台節目主持、報章專欄作家、政治評論員、食家及足球評論員集於一身的多面手。

An Introduction to Political Philosophy

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:28:59 PST

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The revised edition of this highly successful text provides a clear and accessible introduction to some of the most important questions of political philosophy. Organized around major issues, Wolff provides the structure that beginners need, while also introducing some distinctive ideas of his own.

The Great Philosophers

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:28:16 PST

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Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC, and following the story through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Bryan Magee's conversations with fifteen contemporary writers and philosophers provide an accessible and exciting account of Western philosophy and its greatest thinkers. The contributors include A. J. Ayer, Bernard Williams, Martha Nussbaum, ...

Talking Philosophy

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:28:16 PST

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This book consists of fifteen dialogues between Bryan Magee and some of the outstanding thinkers of the twentieth century. It is based on a highly successful BBC television series which had enormous impact. The informality and clarity of the conversational form makes even the most difficult ideas accessible to the general reader. Isaiah Berlin opens by considering the fundamental question 'What ...

At the Same Time

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 0:41:44 PST

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The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post-9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated Sontag's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth-century's preeminent writers and thinkers.

Meditations on First Philosophy

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:23:00 PST

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'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards...I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished' In Descartes's Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, the thinker rejects all his former beliefs in the quest for new certainties. Discovering his own existence as a thinking e ...

The Prince

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:22:28 PST

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'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experien ...

The Qur'an

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:21:59 PST

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'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a sacred text and a book of guidance, that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of the I ...

On Liberty and Other Essays

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:18:17 PST

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Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of ...

What Does it All Mean?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:17:23 PST

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In this lucid and accessible book, Thomas Nagel explores the central questions of philosophy thoughtfully, clearly, and with humour. He demonstrates that philosophy is an indispensable key to understanding our lives, and far from being an arcane academic discipline, can be enjoyed by all.

No Logo

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:12:45 PST

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With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, "No Logo "employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing--and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will surely alter the course of the 21st century. First published before the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, this is an infuriating, inspirin ...

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:12:06 PST

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Klee

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:11:41 PST

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This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.

Concealment and Exposure

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:11:18 PST

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Thomas Nagel is widely recognized as one of the leading American philosophers working today. In this diverse and controversial volume, he collects a number of his most recently published articles and reviews. Concealment and Exposure reflects the unusually catholic range of his many philosophical preoccupations. The first section, Public and Private, focuses on the notion of privacy in the contex ...

Philosophical Papers, Volume 2

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:10:39 PST

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Professor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two volumes. The first deals with the philosophy of mathematics and of science and the nature of philosophical and scientific enquiry; the second deal ...

Factory Records

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:09:59 PST

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This is the first and definitive overview of the artwork of the seminal Manchester-based Factory label, covering its iconic record sleeves, posters, ephemera, venues and packaging. After a foreword by the founder of Factory, Tony Wilson, an introductory essay discusses the label's role in bringing design to the mainstream. Thereafter, the book is organized as a generously illustrated catalogue, a ...

Wine Essentials

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:42:48 PST

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Human Anatomy

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:41:58 PST

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Lavishly illustrated anatomy books have long been prized by artists, physicians, and other educated readers. Human Anatomy is the first authoritative history of anatomical illustration to include the most recent scientific discoveries and digital imagery. The book includes concise biographies of the great anatomists of history, as well as superb reproductions of anatomical renderings by Leonardo ...

Black Mass

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:37:35 PST

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A prophetic warning against the foolishness of crusades, John Gray's "Black Mass" challenges our belief in human progress. Our conventional view of history is wrong. It is founded on a pernicious myth of an achievable utopia that in the last century alone caused the murder of tens of millions. In "Black Mass" John Gray tears down the religious, political and secular beliefs that we insist are fun ...

The Shock Doctrine

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:37:08 PST

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From the bestselling author of "No Logo", Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" cracks open the secret history of our era to look at how from a privileged few are making millions from worldwide devastation. Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catast ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:36:25 PST

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The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:34:22 PST

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"The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: A Complete Catalogue" is the first book to provide a complete account of the printmaking career of British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), with particular reference to the technical innovations that she pioneered while working in association with master printers. Barns-Graham experimented with a variety of printmaking techniques, finally discove ...

Lucian Freud 1922

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:33:21 PST

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Lucian Freud

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:33:21 PST

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One of the foremost figurative artists working today, Lucian Freud has redefined portraiture and the nude through his unblinking scrutiny of the human form. Although he is best known as a painter, etching is integral to his practice. This volume accompanies a major Museum of Modern Art exhibition that will present the full scope of Freud's etchings, including some 75 works--from the rare early ex ...

Lucian Freud

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:33:18 PST

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Over six decades, Lucian Freud has built up a reputation as one of the most distinctive contemporary figurative artists. Freud's startling and disconcerting portraits and nudes have a haunting quality that makes them impossible to forget. This stunning book brings together key works from Freud's entire career, including over 140 paintings, drawings, and etchings, some new, and many never before e ...

Tarkovsky

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:32:05 PST

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Tarkovsky provides a collection of accessible academic essays by leading film studies professionals. A challenging, broadly illustrated book that fully captures the essence of this cinematic pioneer. Andrei Tarkovsky is the most influential Soviet filmmaker of the post-war era, and one of the world's most renowned cinematic geniuses. He created spiritual, existential films of incredible beau ...

Lost and Philosophy

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:58:54 PST

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Sometimes it feels like you need a Ph.D. to follow the show. But you don't. You just need this book in which twenty-one philosophers explore the deep questions we all face as survivors on this planet: Does "everything happen for a reason"? Is torture ever justified? Who are the Others? How do we know we're not patients in Hurley's psych ward? What if the Dharma Intitiative is experimenting on us? ...

The Ethics of Identity

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:56:38 PST

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Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individual ...

Thinking it Through

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:56:17 PST

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Thinking it Through is a thorough, vividly written introduction to contemporary philosophy and some of the most crucial questions of human existence, including the nature of mind and knowledge, the status of moral claims, the existence of God, the role of science, and the mysteries of language. Noted philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah shows us what it means to "do" philosophy in our time and why it ...

God is not Great

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:54:03 PST

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Metamorphosis

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:32:49 PST

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This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes "Metamorphosis", his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; "Meditation", a collection of his earlier studies; "The Judgement", written in a single night of frenzied creativity; "The Stoker", the first chapter of a novel ...

逃避人性︰噁心、羞恥與法律

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:32:30 PST

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　　本書是探討法律、人性及社會的重量級著作，也是Nussbaum大師著作的首部中譯本。　　有關性與色情的法律，是否應該基於「何謂令人噁心」的社會風俗習慣？是否重罪犯應該被要求在汽車保險桿上貼上標籤或穿著Ｔ恤來昭示他們的罪行？美國最具影響力的哲學家瑪莎．克雷文．納思邦，在這本震撼人心又精闢的書中，以批判的角度去探討在個人與社會生活中，以及特別是在法律中，羞恥與噁心所扮演的角色。　　納思邦教授主張，我們必須提防這些情感，因為它們以麻煩的方式與我們想逃離自身人性的欲望交雜著；它們體現了一種使自己不受傷害的渴求，而這種渴求是不切實際，有時甚至是病態的。納思邦教授主張，噁心本身的思維內涵體現了巫術裡關於不淨的觀念，以及對純潔、不朽、擺脫動物性的無謂渴望，而與我們所知的人類生活不一致。」她主張噁心絕不能成為一個行為入罪化的判斷基礎，也不應該如目前這樣在法律中扮演加重或減輕刑罰的角色。她還主張，我們對 ...

Philosophy of Mind

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:31:31 PST

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What is the mind? Is consciousness a process in the brain? How do our minds represent the world? Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings is a grand tour of writings on these and other perplexing questions about the nature of the mind. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, the book includes sixty-three selections that range from the classical contributions of Descartes ...

Jakob von Gunten

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:05:21 PST

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The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most unca ...

罗尔斯

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:05:00 PST

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　　“剑桥哲学研究指针”是英国剑桥大学出版社20世纪90年代刊行的一套学术参考书，如原书编者所说的：“这套书的目的之一，乃是针对艰深而富有挑战性的哲学家著作，帮助读者打消畏难心理。”对于哲学有兴趣的非专业读者和学生，由些可获得最为权威、便利的有效指引；专家和深入研究者则由此可概览各种批判性诠释的最新进展。　　三联书店以英文原版形式引进出版“剑桥哲学研究指针”，旨在便利国内读者和研究者，期望这套研究指南有助于我国读书界把握学术潮流，拓宽思想疆域。　　罗尔斯是20世纪最具有影响力的政治和道德哲学家。他的著作深刻塑造了哲学、法律、政治学、经济学和其他社会科学领域有关社会正义、政治正义和经济正义的当代论争。这本《罗尔斯》邀集世界各地最优秀的政治和道德理论家写作最新专文，剖析罗尔斯在各个领域的贡献以及由此引发的各种理论争辩。书后附有详尽参考文献、主题及人名索引，是一本激动人心的罗尔斯研 ...

Reasons and Persons

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:04:38 PST

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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will of ...

The Analysis of Mind

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:04:17 PST

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Mind and Matter. Consciousness.

百戰山河（一）國共合作篇

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:05:15 PST

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二十世紀的前五十年，中國大地，戰火不息。先是軍閥割據混戰，接下來，國共合作，北伐平定軍閥。但是還沒有完成北伐，就發生了國共分裂，國民黨以流血手段清黨，然後繼續平定軍閥。但是流血清黨帶來的反應是，中國共產黨發動了南昌起義、建軍、上井岡山，建立革命根據地。國共的長期武裝鬥爭就此開始。在這時候，日本的軍國主義者得勢，他們建立了一套向外擴張有理的理論，要領導亞洲，先要侵佔中國。這時，蔣介石在國民黨與國民政府中乘勢崛起。他要應付這個嚴峻的局面，很艱難。他確立了「攘外必先安內」的根本方針，先打內戰，再抗外侮。本書以「百戰山河」為總題，分三個大階段蝑z：國共合作篇、國難篇、解放篇。《國共合作篇》包括了國共合作、分裂，國民黨軍的剿共與中共紅軍的轉移與「長征」。百戰山河的場景，就此展開。作者簡介：吳羊璧，一九二九年七月廿五日生於廣東澄海縣，在汕頭市長大。一九四八年至香港謀生。長期任職副刊編輯。六十年代及七 ...

天水圍12師奶

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:14:02 PST

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God Is Not Great

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:12:54 PST

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In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. W ...

存在主義概論

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 0:13:28 PST

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时光中的时光

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 0:13:03 PST

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　　塔氏日记卷帙繁多，但因涉及私隐与品藻等故，一直未有全本发行。除了筹划中的俄文版，目前较好版本为英、法、意和波兰文等译本，并各有所长。这本《时光中的时光》，乃《雕刻时光》英译者基蒂•亨特–布莱尔（Kitty Hunter-Blair）直接翻译自俄文原件，这也是当今公认的最佳英译本。除了日记，书中并收录五则塔氏访谈、演讲记录与个人创作笔记，仔细阅读，不难发现与日记和《雕刻时光》的相通之处。　　日记的时间跨度为十七年，即始于二十世纪七十年代塔氏筹拍《飞向太空》，终于一九八六年病逝巴黎之前两个星期。就其创作生涯而言，几乎涵盖塔氏所有作品（包括《雕刻时光》一书）的酝酿、实施与完成。不仅如此，更显露他个人生活的方方面面，有经济困境，家庭与人际关系，创作艰辛，与苏联官僚的苦斗，也有内心彷徨，焦虑，怀疑甚至绝望。然而在我看来，全书最重要亦最令人震撼之处，却是塔氏日记贯穿始终、不断坚定的信念。这一 ...

中国哲学十九讲

Sun, 9 Mar 2008 0:07:54 PST

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中西哲學之會通十四講

Sun, 9 Mar 2008 0:07:26 PST

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此講辭是十年前在臺大繼“中國哲學十九講”後而續講者。十九講早已出版，而此講辭則因當時諸研究生俱已出國深造，無人由錄音帶筆錄為文，遂成蹉跎。後由林清臣同學獨自擔任筆錄，聯貫整理，共十四講，先發表於東海大學“中國文化月刊”，後復轉載於“鵝湖”雜誌。

John Rawls

Sun, 9 Mar 2008 0:07:05 PST

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John Rawls was one of the most important political philosophers of our time, and promises to be an enduring figure over the coming decades. His Theory of Justice (1971) has had a profound impact across philosophy, politics, law, and economics. Nonetheless Rawlsian theory is not easy to understand, particularly for beginners, and his writing can be dense and forbidding. Thomas Pogge's short introd ...

Anarchy, State and Utopia

Sun, 9 Mar 2008 0:06:42 PST

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In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, winner of the 1975 National Book Award, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held political and social positions oaf our age--liberal, socialist, and conservative.

An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire

Sun, 9 Mar 2008 0:06:21 PST

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Just in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration really means when it talks about "compassionate conservativism" and "the war on terror." Roy has characteristic fun in these essays, skewering the hypocrisy of the more-democratic-than-thou clan. But above all, she aims to remind us that we hold the essence of power and the foundation of ge ...

Discourse on Method and the Meditations

Sun, 9 Mar 2008 0:04:57 PST

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Is knowledge possible? If so, what can we know and how do we come to know it? What degree of certainty does our knowledge enjoy? In these two powerful works, Descartes, the seventeenth-century philosopher considered to be the father of modern philosophy, outlines his philosophical method and then counters the sceptics of his time by insisting that certain knowledge can be had. He goes on to addre ...

The Jewish Writings

Sat, 1 Mar 2008 23:51:44 PST

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Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. As a young adult in Germany, she wrote about German Jewish history. After moving to France in 1933, she helped Jewish youth immigrate to Palestine. During her years in Paris, her principle concern was the transformation of antinomianism from prejudice to policy, w ...

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Sat, 1 Mar 2008 23:51:13 PST

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In the posthumously published "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the belief that religion is founded on ignorance and irrational fears. Though calm and courteous in tone - at times even tactfully ambiguous - the conversations between Hume's vividly realized fictional figu ...

Colonialism/Postcolonialism

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:03:29 PST

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This volume provides an introduction to the historical dimensions and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and post-colonial discourses. It examines: the ideologies and history of colonialism; the relationship of colonial discourse to literature; challenges to colonialism, surveying anticolonial discourses and recent developments in post-colonial theories and histories; and how sexuality ...

The World As Will and Representation

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:02:15 PST

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Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For the first time, this edtion translates and locates all quotes and provides full index.

The World As Will and Representation

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:02:15 PST

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Volume 2 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For the first time, this edition translates and locates all quotes and provides full index.

Camera Lucida

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:00:30 PST

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Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.

Philosophical Grammar

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:48:22 PST

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In 1933 Ludwig Wittgenstein revised a manuscript he had compiled from his 1930-1932 notebooks, but the work as a whole was not published until 1969, as Philosophische Grammatik. This first English translation clearly reveals the central place Philosophical Grammar occupies in Wittgenstein's thought and provides a link from his earlier philosophy to his later views.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:48:09 PST

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Ludwig Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' is one of the most important books of the twentieth century. It influenced philosophers and artists alike and continues to fascinate readers today. Alfred Nordmann's introduction considers both the philosophical and the literary aspects of the Tractatus and demonstrates how they are related. It also reveals how the work fits into Wittgenstein ...

Philosophical Remarks

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:47:40 PST

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When in May 1930, the Council of Trinity College, Cambridge, had to decide whether to renew Wittgenstein's research grant, it turned to Bertrand Russell for an assessment of the work Wittgenstein had been doing over the past year. His verdict: "The theories contained in this new work . . . are novel, very original and indubitably important. Whether they are true, I do not know. As a logician who ...

Under the Sign of Saturn

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:43:29 PST

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A collection of essays on the relationship between moral and aesthetic ideas. The book brings together some of Sontag's best critical writing of the 1970s, on subjects ranging from Walter Benjamin to Antonin Artuad, Elias Canetti and Leni Reifenstahl.

Styles of Radical Will

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:42:51 PST

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Susan Sontag's second collection of essays extends the investigations she undertook in "Against Interpretation", with essays on film, literature and politics, and a study of pornography.

Where the Stress Falls

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:42:37 PST

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A collection of essays spanning two decades of work by a great American writer

The House of the Dead

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:41:44 PST

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In January, 1850, Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in "The House of the Dead", were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account, he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the dai ...

Poor Folk and Other Stories: "Poor Folk"; The "Landlady"; "Mr Prokharchin"; "Polzunkov"

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:41:31 PST

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With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. "Poor Folk", the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk and a young seamstress, told through their passionate letters to e ...

The Gambler / Bobok / A Nasty Story

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:41:17 PST

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Notes from Underground; The Double

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:41:00 PST

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The Village of Stepanchikovo

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:40:18 PST

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Summoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam. For as he soon sees, his meek and kind-hearted uncle is wholly dominated by a pretentious and despotic pseudo-intellectual named Opiskin, a charlatan who has ingratiated himself with Yegor's mother and now holds the entire household unde ...

Netochka Nezvanova

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:40:00 PST

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"Netochka Nezvanova - A Nameless Nobody" - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man, who exploits her and drives the family to poverty. But when she is rescued by an aristocratic family, the abuse against Netochka's delicate psyche continues in a more ...

The Devils

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:39:17 PST

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The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. This new translation includes the chapter "Stavrogin's confession," initially censored by Dostoevsky's publisher.

The Life of the Mind

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:37:59 PST

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The author?s final work, presented in a one-volume edition, is a rich, challenging analysis of man?s mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. Edited by Mary McCarthy; Indices.

Responsibility and Judgment

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:37:26 PST

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Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” in which Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral “truths” as standar ...

Dostoevsky

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:35:26 PST

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This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and his crowning triumph: The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky's final years at last won him the universal approval toward which he had always aspire ...

Dostoevsky

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:35:10 PST

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This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels--Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Devils--and two of his best novellas, The Gambler and The Eternal Husband. All these mas ...

Dostoevsky

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:34:53 PST

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". . . a narrative of such compelling precision, thoroughness and insight as to give the reader a sense not just of acquaintanceship, but of complete identification with Dostoevsky, of looking through his eyes and understanding with his mind."--Helen Muchnic, Boston Globe "This is unquestionably the best account we have of Dostoevsky in his time."--Donald Fanger, The New Republic ". . . will righ ...

Dostoevsky

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:34:33 PST

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Dostoevsky

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:34:10 PST

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The term "biography" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon the publication of the final volume, casually tagged the series as the ultimate work on Dostoevsky "in any language, and quite possibly forever." Frank himself had not originally intende ...

The Best Intentions

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:55:18 PST

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Kofi Annan described 2004 as his annus horribilis. A man who had received the Nobel Peace Prize, who was widely counted one of the greatest UN secretaries general, was nearly hounded from office by scandal. Indeed, both Annan and the institution he incarnates were so deeply shaken after the invasion of Iraq that critics, and even some friends, began asking whether this sixty-year-old experiment i ...

Saint Genet

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:54:00 PST

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:52:58 PST

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Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German Empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of this century's blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attain ...

The Second World War

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:51:16 PST

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Churchill's six-volume history of World War II -- the definitive work, remarkable both for its sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature. From Britian's darkest and finest hour to the great alliance and ultimate victory, the Second World War remains the pivotal event in our century. Churc ...

Memoirs of the Second World War

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:51:16 PST

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In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Nobel Prize winner Winston Churchill's essential, abridged memoirs of that time are reintroduced with an updated cover and a new low price. The quintessence of the war as seen by it's greatest player, in a one-volume abridged edition that captures all the drama of the original volumes.

Jazz Cultures

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:47:13 PST

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From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's vibrant and original book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities have shaped over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the many ways in which jazz musician ...

What Is This Thing Called Jazz?

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:46:12 PST

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Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter overturns this tendency in his creative intellectual history of African American musicians. He for ...

Jazz Changes

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:45:50 PST

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Jazz Changes is the late Martin Williams's third and perhaps best collection of jazz portraits, interviews, narrative accounts of recording sessions, rehearsals, and performances, important liner notes, and far reaching discussions of musicians and their music. The collection includes thirty years of Williams's finest pieces taking readers on an engaging tour of the changing jazz world. There are ...