Lectures on Modern Western Thought (Chinese Edition)

What is the meaning of life? What is the value of freedom and equity that people long for? What are the complex conflict and future trend of human civilizations? These questions that may puzzle you also puzzled Weber, Nietzsche and Sartre. The philosophers made explanation with their best try, offering precious thoughts for future generations. In this lectures, Liu Qing introduces 19 thinkers in modern field of vision, which tells the pros and cons of instrumental reason, how to face nihilism, the alienation of consumerism to human beings and the fairness and justice of wealth distribution.