"In March 1929, the philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger met in Davos, Switzerland to debate the Kantian concepts of freedom and rationality. Their debate has come to have great significance as a point at which the divide between analytic and continental philosophy b…
Philosophy in crisis -- Setting the stage -- The independent lectures -- The Davos encounter -- Before Davos : myth, science, modernity -- After Davos : enlightenment, politics, religion -- Philosophy and memory.
The 1929 Sino-Soviet war: the war nobody knew
"The first book-length study of the largely neglected 1929 Sino-Soviet war, a short but bloody one fought over the jointly operated Chinese Eastern Railroad (CER) in China's northeast. Although classified as a modern limited war, with comparatively few major engagements, it prov…
