The basis for the Academy Award®-winning 1981 film Reds, this classic, eyewitness account captures the opening days of the Russian Revolution. Reed's passionately involved narrative describes the fall of the provisional government, the assault on the Winter Palace, and Lenin's seizure of power. The legendary American journalist "writes of it brilliantly and entertainingly." — The New York Times Book Review. 16 illustrations.

这是一本围绕“八十年代”情境及问题意识的对话录，主持者选取的谈话对象多为八十年代引领潮流的风云人物：北岛、阿城、刘索拉、李陀、陈丹青、栗宪庭、陈平原、甘阳、崔健、林旭东、田壮壮、分别属于诗歌、小说、音乐、美术、电影、哲学及文学研究等领域。对话抽取相关领域里在今天仍有讨论价值的当年热点内容作为话题，试图重视这个在中国二十世纪史上具有特殊意义年代的场景和氛围，并且在回顾八十年代社会思想面貌的同时也对其进行反思。
20世纪80年代是当代中国历史上一个短暂、脆弱却颇具特质、令人心动的年代。谈话者以个人的身份和角度，从各自从事的工作出发，既回忆反省过去的那个时代，也评论分析现在，并且眺望臆想未来。书中虽然记录了许多珍贵的往事，却没有变成一个“怀旧项目”，大多数谈话者没有简单地将80年代浪漫化，尽管他们那时年轻气盛、出道成名。这些回忆者的态度不是一味怀旧或颂扬，而是尽可能坦率、客观地对自我和时代的局限，对不少当年轰动一时的现象、事件、人物及文化动因进行深入剖析、批评和反省。

自《马克思恩格斯全集》、《列宁全集》、《马克思恩格斯选集》、《列宁选集》问世以来，广大读者迫切要求出版马列著作的单行本。这反映了他们学习马克思列宁主义的强烈愿望和对马列著作的不同需要。为此，我们决定编辑出版一套马列著作的系列书，定名为《马克思列宁主义文库》。本文库收编马克思列宁主义经典作家的重要著作，以单行本形式陆续出版。这些著作凡可独立成书者，则一文一书；有些重要文章和书信则按专题编成文集；有些著作还设有附录，收编作者本人的有关论著和与本书直接有关的材料。为帮助读者学习和研究，在每书正文之后附有“注释”和“人名索引”，有些著作还附有“名目索引”。译文和资料均以新版全集、选集为准。有些著作尚无新版者，则按新版要求重新校订译文，编写资料。这套文库与全集、选集相配合，可适应广大读者的不同需要。理论工作者，教学和宣传工作者，各级干部，大专院校学生和其他读者均可从这套文库中选择自己所需要的著作，也可系统收藏。我们期望这套文库的出版能推动全国马克思主义的学习和研究，有助于广大干部用马克思主义的立场、观点和方法研究和解决社会主义现代化建设中的新问题，促进社会主义物质文明和精神文明的建设。

In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

This was Michel Foucault's first major book, written while he was the Director of the Maison de France in Sweden. It examines ideas, practices, institutions, art and literature relating to madness in Western history.
Foucault begins his history in the Middle Ages, noting the social and physical exclusion of lepers. He argues that with the gradual disappearance of leprosy, madness came to occupy this excluded position. The ship of fools in the 15th century is a literary version of one such exclusionary practice, the practice of sending mad people away in ships. However, during the Renaissance, madness was regarded as an all-abundant phenomena because humans could not come close to the Reason of God. As Cervantes' Don Quixote, all humans are ridiculous weak to desires and dissimulation. Therefore, the insane, understood as one who has come too close to God's Reason, was accepted in the middle of society. It is not before the 17th century, in a movement which Foucault famously describes as the Great Confinement, that "unreasonable" members of the population systematically were locked away and institutionalised. In the 18th century, madness came to be seen as the obverse of Reason, that is, as having lost what made them human and become animal-like and therefore treated as such. It is not before 19th century that madness became mental illness that should be cured, e.g. Freud. Later it was demonstrated that the large increase in confinement did not happen in 17th but in the 19th century, somewhat undermining his argument.
Foucault also argues that madness during Renaissance had the power to signify the limits of social order and to point to a deeper truth. This was silenced by the Reason of Enlightenment. He also examines the rise of modern scientific and "humanitarian" treatments of the insane, notably at the hands of Philippe Pinel and Samuel Tuke. He claims that these modern treatments were in fact no less controlling than previous methods. Tuke's country retreat for the mad consisted of punishing the madmen until they gave up their commitment to madness. Similarly, Pinel's treatment of the mad amounted to an extended aversion therapy, including such treatments as freezing showers and use of a straitjacket. In Foucault's view, this treatment amounted to repeated brutality until the pattern of judgment and punishment was internalized by the patient.

本书是《历史深处的忧虑――近距离看美国》的姊妹篇，作者继续以信件的形式，从“美国总统是什么？”这样一个问题开始，用一连串的故事，层层铺排出美国政治法律制度的基本原理和操作细节，使读者更深刻地了解美国是如何在自身的制度系统中，通过“平衡和制约”去实施对权力的监督和限制。