Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual development. After painting Hegel's life and times in broad strokes, Peter Singer goes on to tackle some of the more challenging aspects of Hegel's philosophy. Offering a broad discussion of Hegel's ideas and an account of his major works, Singer explains what have often been considered abstruse and obscure ideas in a clear and inviting manner.

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

民族、国家、宗教、言語……。独自の社会主義連邦の道を歩んできたユーゴの解体から三〇年。暴力と憎悪の連鎖が引き起こしたあの紛争は、いまだ過ぎ去らぬ重い歴史として、私たちの前に立ちはだかっている。

This lively and engaging book is the ideal introduction for anyone who has ever been puzzled by what philosophy is or what it is for. Edward Craig argues that philosophy is not an activity born from another planet; learning about it is just a matter of broadening and deepening what most of us do already. He shows that philosophy is no mere intellectual pastime.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.

パンデミックは世界を変えたのか――新型コロナの大流行を経験した私たちには，疫病と人類の関わりを問い直すという重い課題が突きつけられている．

「ロシアとロシア人の魅力を、衣食住の面から伝えたい」という本書の内容は、プーチン大統領の蛮行によってその色合いを変えた。新型コロナウイルスの蔓延下、ロシアを観光で訪れることはかなわない。何よ

Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring.

世界の恒久的平和はいかにしてもたらされるべきか．

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E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.

現代日本の思想が当面する問題は何か。その日本的特質はどこにあり、何に由来するものなのか。

【内容紹介】古代日本、邪馬台国卑弥呼の服装とはどんなものだったのか?稲作文化と深く関わりつつ今に受け継がれている衣服の歴史について、衣装研究の第一人者である武田佐知子氏が解説する。【講師紹介】大阪大学理事 武田佐知子- 1948年、東京都生まれ。東京都立大学大学院博士課程修了。著書『古代国家の形成と衣服制-袴と貫頭衣-』『衣服で読み直す日本史』など多数。

思想界では近年一段と脚光を浴びる一方で、一般には時代遅れのイメージが付きまとうアリストテレス。