《往年纪事》是俄罗斯历史上最重要的史著之一，是古罗斯国流传下来的第一部编年史，约成书于12世纪初。史学界一般认为作者是基辅洞穴修道院的修道士涅斯托尔，而现存最早的版本为公元1377年弗拉基米尔修士拉夫连季抄写的手稿。该书根据拜占庭的编年史，西斯拉夫、东斯拉夫的文学作品，官方文件以及口头文学等史料汇编而成，记载了从9世纪到公元1110年间东斯拉夫人及罗斯国家的历史，着重介绍了留里克称王和奥列格建国等古代罗斯的重大史实。

The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE DRY SALVAGES (1941), and LITTLE GIDDING (1942). Eliot's insights into the cyclical nature of life are revealed through themes and images woven throughout the four poems. Spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. The work addresses the connections of the personal and historical present and past, spiritual renewal, and the very nature of experience; it is considered the poet's clearest exposition of his Christian beliefs. (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature)

本书初版于1922年，是梁漱溟新儒学思想体系的理论基础。全书共五章，主要包括了本体论、认识论、文化观、历史观和伦理学思想五个部分内容。作者将西方的非理性注意和中国传统哲学思想相结合，对东西文化加以比较，极富开创性和启发性。梁漱溟（1893-1988），原名梁鼎焕，毕生致力于中国儒家文化的复兴和著述研究，主要代表作有《东西文化及其哲学》、《乡村建设理论》、《印度哲学概论》、《中国文化要义》、《人心与人生》等。

本书尝试探究18世纪末和19世纪初西欧几位重要思想家的若干社会和政治观念。……我们谈论的时代有着独特而丰富的原创性概念；它们改变了我们的世界，而用以系统阐述那些概念的语词仍对我们有着吸引力。
——以赛亚•伯林
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（这本书）要比迄今为止所出版的任何作品都更好地揭示了伯林思想的完整性。特别是它十分清晰地表明，像卡西尔（Cassirer）、克罗齐（Croce）、洛维乔伊（Lovejoy）、奥克肖特（Oakeshott）和柯林伍德（Collingwood）一样，伯林是按其哲学观点写作历史，历史是其阐发哲学观点的一个工具。这也使该书在智识上引人关注。在充满干扰的半个世纪中，该书属于与任何专业性出版物不同的类别。
——伊恩•哈里斯
本书有助于我们理解伯林思想的发展，欣赏其统一性，使我们意识到他是怎样一个富于冒险的思想家。鉴于此，对于希望理解并学习伯林作品的那些读者来说，本书是一部重要的文献。
——约书亚•L.切尼斯

《清词丛论》是关于研究“清词”的专著，书中对首开词风转变的云间词派代表人物陈子龙、浙西词派创始人朱彝尊、词坛巨擘纳兰性德、常州词派领袖张惠言这四位巨子在清词发展史上的地位及价值，作了深入的探究，并借以展示了清代词苑的繁盛景象。

《论优美感和崇高感》是康德在第三批判之外唯一的一篇美学著作。充分显示了作者的风格、人格与若干重要思路。书中的主要内容有两点：一是优美与崇高的对立与统一，一是强调美的主观性。

《人间草木》内容简介：这本学术随笔写四组人物，马礼逊和柏格理、苏曼殊和李叔同、托尔斯泰和马克斯。韦伯、梁济和王国维，不是因为他们的作品或理论，而是因为他们的人生。他们是些亲切而又高贵的人，来到这个世界经历生死，在信仰中努力，在绝望中爱，在希望中死去，带着精神的闪光。这闪光不仅让我们看见他们，并在他们身上看到自我；也让他们彼此看见对方，在灵性上相互照应，从世俗通往神圣。

汪晖先生并非专业的藏学研究者，却写出了专业藏学家难以企及的专业之作，从中我不仅读出了作者的学养和学识，也读出了作者的理性和良知。——沈卫荣
特别值得肯定的是，汪晖先生将东、西之间的“西藏问题”置于中国近代被西方列强殖民化的过程中详加分析，指出今天东西方之间有关“西藏问题”的观点、立场差异实际上很大程度是根植与那一特定时期的利益纠葛与历史情结。在这方面，本书所收另两篇论文《琉球与区域秩序的两次巨变》、《跨体系社会与区域作为方法》为此提供了有利的佐证和更深刻的历史背景。——石硕

《丛林、性别与澳大利亚历史的重构》是澳大利亚女性主义学者凯萨琳•谢菲近几年的重要论文集。前五篇论文研究的是澳大利亚的历史话语和小说话语。这些文章采用解构主义的分析方法，考察了19世纪澳大利亚的历史叙述和文学叙述，以及它们试图用来定义澳大利亚民族的方式。第六篇至第十一篇论文关注的是20世纪的事件，将视野由澳大利亚扩展到国际范围内，聚焦于全球化与女性主义媒体研究和日本侵华期间中国和朝鲜的“慰安妇”问题、奥运会中的女运动员问题等女性主义事件。

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit. The result is one of the greatest diaries in the English language.

《怀柔远人》的主题是清代礼宾与1793年马嘎尔尼英国使团，书中分别考察了清朝与英国对遣使事件的叙述，以便强调双方不同的实际操作模式与观念框架。在批判性地评介了其他有关清代外交关系的观点之后，第2章提供了一个对清帝国及其统治状况的全景式的考察，第5章也谈到这个问题，并特别关注宾礼。第3章讨论18世纪大英帝国国内文化背景，展示在知识贵族中普遍流行的“外交、贸易及对中国的了解”。第4章重新检讨马嘎尔尼勋爵对觐见过程前前后后的叙述。第6章和第7章透过清朝的礼仪和统治观念来审视清朝有关这次觐见的记载。第8章把双方的叙述列在一起，合而观之。第9章，在对这次清英相遇做出一些总结之后，回顾了中西关系史中对马嘎尔尼使团的研讨。

1730年代的巴黎，一群印刷业学徒发起了一场翻天覆地的屠猫仪式，他们折磨然后杀死所有他们能够找到的猫，包括他们师母的宠物猫。这种残酷的仪式何以在他们眼中如此“好笑”？十八世纪法国人的文化有珍奇的一面，也有寻常的一面，作者一一召唤而出，藉以邀请读者思索这一类的问题：为什么巴黎的一群工匠觉得猫大屠杀那幺有趣？玩笑如何在旧制度的工人间发酵？《猫大屠杀》揭露一个文化的万花筒视野，既熟悉又奇妙。作者在书中提供了治疗文化震荡所不可或缺而且入口难忘的一帖药剂。尽管这是一本学术著述，在作者以带有强烈文学趣味的随笔体例写作的策略下，读者绝对可以获得一次既有益又有趣的阅读经历。

"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse the practice of reading, Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom.
Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. Always dazzling in his ability to draw connections between texts across continents and centuries, Bloom instructs readers in how to immerse themselves in the different literary forms.
Probing discussions of the works of beloved writers such as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, and William Faulkner highlight the varied challenges and delights found in short stories, poems, novels, and plays. Bloom not only provides illuminating guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring -- aesthetic pleasure, increased individuality and selfknowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most engaging and complex literary characters.
Bloom's engaging prose and brilliant insights will send you hurrying back to old favorites and entice you to discover new ones. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.

《社会研究方法教程》对社会研究的方法和理论作了系统全面的介绍。全书围绕社会研究的原理、逻辑策略和科学程序，从方法论、研究方式和具体研究方法及技术三个层次，定性研究和定量研究两个方面，详细阐述了资料的收集、整理、分析、解释与评估的各种方法、技术及其应用。《社会研究方法教程》注重理论与实践的有效结合，吸收了当代国外的最新发展成果，引用了大量国内外研究的成功案例。

《隐痛与希望:解读中国西部农村教育》内容简介：“北京市西部阳光农村发展基金会”是一家致力于西部农村教育的机构，我们的使命是：以当地人为主，通过不同背景志愿者的参与，促进西部农村教育及社区发展。目前，基金会在甘肃、宁夏、陕西、山西、云南、四川、贵州等西部贫困地区开展了大学生西部支教，农村女教师培训，农村幼儿教育，家庭、社区发展，乡村图书馆建设，资助代课教师和少数民族女高中生等多个公益项目。
我们热忱欢迎社会各界与我们一起参与到西部农村教育的发展中来，也希望能有更多的志愿者加入到我们的项目中来。

《为承认而斗争》与那些仅仅关注一些现象的解释青年黑格尔承认理论的著作不同，《为承认而斗争》根据青年黑格尔的“为承认而斗争“模式来阐明一种具有规范内容的社会理论。这一模式基于这三个命题：实践自我的形成依靠的是主体间的相互承认；在主体认同的形成过程中，存在着三种承认形式：爱、法律和团结；这三种承认形式遵循着以道德斗争各阶段为中介的发展过程的逻辑。

Summary


Explores the impact on Jews and Judaism of the crisis of modernity, analyzing modern Jewish dilemmas and providing a prescription for their resolution.

This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as significant writings which were previously unpublished. Spanning almost 30 years of continuously deepening reflection, the book presents the full range of Strauss's contributions as a modern Jewish thinker.

These essays and lectures also offer Strauss's mature considerations of some of the great figures in modern Jewish thought, such as Baruch Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Theodor Herzl, and Sigmund Freud. They also encompass his incisive analyses and original explorations of modern Judaism (which he viewed as caught in the grip of the "theological-political crisis"): from German Jewry, anti-semitism, and the Holocaust to Zionism and the State of Israel; from the question of assimilation to the meaning and value of Jewish history. In addition Strauss's two sustained interpretations of the Hebrew Bible are also reprinted.

These essays and lectures cumulatively point toward the "postcritical" reconstruction of Judaism which Strauss envisioned, suggesting it rebuild along Maimonidean lines. Thus, the book lends credence to the view that Strauss was able to uncover and probe the crisis at the heart of modern Jewish thought and history, perhaps with greater profundity than any other contemporary Jewish thinker.

Kenneth Hart Green is Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.





Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments


Editor's Preface


Editor's Introduction: Leo Strauss as a Modern Jewish Thinker


Part I: Essays in Modern Jewish Thought


1. Progress or Return? (1952)
2. Preface to Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965)


Part II: Studies of Modern Jewish Thinkers


3. How to Study Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (1948)
4. Preface to Isaac Husik, Philosophical Essays (1952)
5. Introductory Essay to Hermann Cohen, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism (1972)


Part III: Lectures on Contemporary Jewish Issues


6. Freud on Moses and Monotheism (1958)
7. Why We Remain Jews (1962)


Part IV: Studies on the Hebrew Bible


8. On the Interpretation of Genesis (1957)
9. Jerusalem and Athens (1967)


Part V: Comments on Jewish History


10. What Is Political Philosophy? [The First Paragraph] (1954)
11. Review of J. L. Talmon, The Nature of Jewish History (1957)
12. Letter to the Editor: The State of Israel (1957)


Part VI: Miscellaneous Writings on Jews and Judaism


13. Introduction to Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952)
14. Perspectives on the Good Society (1963)


Part VII: Autobiographical Reflections


15. An Unspoken Prologue (1959)
16. Preface to Hobbes Politische Wissenschaft (1965)
17. A Giving of Accounts (1970)


Appendix 1: Plan of a Book Tentatively Entitled Philosophy and the Law: Historical Essays (1946)


Appendix 2: Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero [The Last Paragraph] (1950)


Appendix 3: Memorial Remarks for Jason Aronson (1961)


Sources


Bibliography


Index

This wide-ranging book locates the origin of political science in the everyday world of ancient Greek life, thought, and culture. Arlene Saxonhouse contends that the Greeks, confronted by the puzzling diversity of the physical world, sought a force that would unify, constrain, and explain it. This drive toward unity did more than value the mind over the senses: it led the Greeks to play down the very real complexities--particularly regarding women, the family, and sexuality--in both their political and personal lives.
Saxonhouse opens up fresh understandings of such issues as the Greeks' fear of the feminine and their attempts to ignore the demands that gender, reproduction, and the family inevitably make on the individual.

In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as controversial and essential as ever. "Strauss ...makes a significant contribution towards an understanding of the intellectual crisis in which we find ourselves ...[and] brings to his task an admirable scholarship and a brilliant, incisive mind."--John H. Hallowell, American Political Science Review Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Chicago.