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The Social Contract · Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
The Commercial Press · 2026
The Social Contract and the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality form an important part of the Western political and cultural tradition. With a long …
Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
Peking University Press · 2025
This book divides human history into ten epochs, embodying the historical outlook of the 18th-century Enlightenment: history is the product of humanit…
18世纪哲学家的天城
Peking University Press · 2025
This book is based on the Storrs Lectures the author delivered at Yale University in 1931. It argues that the eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinker…
Weeds: Essays on the History of Western Thought
Peking University Press · 2025
This book is one volume in the collected works of He Zhaowu. A graduate of National Southwestern Associated University and versed in both Chinese and …
The Reconstruction of Historical Reason (Boya Intellectual History Series)
Peking University Press · 2025
This book is a collection of the author's recent writings, mainly in the fields of Western thought and the philosophy of history. It contains thirty e…
From Speculation to Analysis: The Reconstruction of Historical Reason
Peking University Press · 2025
This book is one volume in the collected works of He Zhaowu. A graduate of National Southwestern Associated University and equally versed in Chinese a…
Possibility and Reality: Some Reflections on Historiography
Peking University Press · 2025
This book is one of the volumes in He Zhaowu's collected works. A graduate of National Southwestern Associated University and versed in both Chinese a…
Seven Days of Talks on Classics
Peking University Press · 2025
This book takes the grand perspective of the history of human civilization and selects seven classic works that have had a profound impact on human pr…
On the French Revolution
The Commercial Press · 2024
Written the year after the outbreak of the French Revolution, this book—together with the work written two years before the Revolution by the English …
On Science and Art
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2023
This book is one of Rousseau's representative works. It won the gold medal in 1749 in the prize essay competition announced by the Dijon Academy in Fr…
Introduction to Western Philosophy
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2023
This book is based on three lectures Mr. He Zhaowu gave in 2002 to undergraduate students in the Department of Chinese at Tsinghua University. In thes…
A History of Western Philosophy (2 Volumes)
The Commercial Press · 2022
Volume One of A History of Western Philosophy covers ancient philosophy and Catholic philosophy, while Volume Two covers modern philosophy. Since anci…
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Shanghai People's Publishing HousePeking University PressThe Commercial Press