Marianne Weber and her circle

An expanded version of his English introduction to Marianne Weber’s biography of Max Weber was published in the Transaction edition. A companion piece on “émile Durkheim and the Principles of 1789: The Issue of Gender Equality,” appears in Telos.     

冷月葬花魂——浅析黛玉其人其身

曹雪芹怀着深挚的爱意和悲悯的同情，用历史与未来，现实与理想，哲理与诗情，并饱蘸着血与泪塑造出来的林黛玉，成为中国式悲剧的典型代表。她任性、天真、率直，保持了人类的童心；她孤僻、叛逆，具有诗人的气质，闪烁着一种纯美精神和理性的光辉，令人心醉神迷。     

In Search of a Home: In Honour of Agnes Heller on her 75th Birthday

Abstract

One of the many themes to which Agnes Heller's philosophy returns again and again is the theme of the home of the moderns. Although not necessarily her central philosophical theme, nonetheless, it opens onto the existential and multi-dimensional nature of the human condition in modernity, which her work permanently addresses.     

张爱玲笔下留学生、华侨婚恋关系描写的文化启示意义

张爱玲笔下的留学生、华侨以暧昧迎拒的方式将东西方两大文化资源结构进自己的主体文化心理中,在与国内女子的婚恋关系中,价值追求的错位使他们彼此隔膜,理解、沟通、宽容等情感机制的缺失使他们相互排拒,最终在失望中以妥协相安。他们之间的这种关系在某种程度上隐喻了精英知识分子与民众的关系。