Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro argues that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. Our freedoms are built upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God's image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring …
"This book investigates how the Chinese have coped with the condition of modernity in which strangers are routinely thrust together. Haiyan Lee dismisses the easy answers claiming that this 'moral crisis' is merely smoke and mirrors conjured up by paternalistic, overwrought lead…
Haiyan Lee is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She is the author of Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2007), winner of the 2009 Joseph Levenson Prize (post-1900 China) fro…
In this volume renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, in particular presenting various controversial interpretations of the question if and to what extent monotheism semantically and structurally fits psychoanalytic in…
In this volume renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, in particular presenting various controversial interpretations of the question if and to what extent monotheism semantically and structurally fits psychoanalytic in…
"Judging it to be "of all my writings incomparably the best," David Hume (1711-1776) accurately assessed this classic, which continues to influence philosophical thinking on ethics to this day through the force of its ideas and its clarity of expression." "Among the many insight…
The land and the people -- Marriage in Santa Lucia -- The bearing of burdens : suffering, containment, and healing -- Working to sweat : labor, narrative, and redemption -- Virtuous husbands, powerful wives : marriage and the dangers of power -- From innocence to knowledge.
