Chronicle of Time: Philosophical Reflections on Western Modern and Contemporary Civilization

Author: Hu Weixi
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book is the textbook for Tsinghua University's general education course "Introduction to Masterpieces of Western Culture." It aims to analyze the works of ten representative Western modern and contemporary thinkers, revealing the historical reflection of Western modern and contemporary thinkers on Western modern and contemporary civilization. The book covers the history of Western civilization over the past 400 years. In terms of ideological concepts, it discusses almost all important or widely influential social thought trends since the modern era in the West, such as socialist thought, nationalist thought, Freudian psychoanalytic thought, Western Marxism, existentialism, and so on, with liberalism being a key focus of the book. In terms of disciplinary scope, it encompasses various aspects of humanities and social sciences, including philosophy, history, literary criticism, psychology, theology, sociology, political science, economics, and international relations. Therefore, this book can not only serve as a basic reading for understanding the history of Western modern and contemporary civilization but also as an introductory work for exploring Western modern and contemporary academic culture.