頼山陽の『日本外史』は，歴史に生きる人間の姿を鮮やかに描き出すことで多くの人々を魅了し，後世に多大な影響を与えた．山陽の詩人としてのあり方と，歴史叙述の方法とはどのように結びついていたのか．

名だたる文筆家が登場する、文藝春秋の文化講演会。どうして日本には恋愛文学があるのに中国にはほとんど無いのだろう?本居宣長が提示した疑問を紐解いてゆくと、日本と中国の国民性、文学の伝統が見えてくる…明治以後の恋愛文学は西洋文学の影響では無かったのです。(1992年11月3日 高松市民会館 文藝春秋七十周年記念講演会より)
●まるで無いような顔 ●一事が万事 ●恋する国家 ●朝日に匂う山桜 ●文学の伝統 文藝春秋の文化講演会は、文学談や執筆秘話に人生論も交え、含蓄と味わい深い講演があなたの生き方に豊かさと彩りを添えます。

Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality. Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words, based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible and at the same time gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness.

日本が近代化に向けて大きな一歩を踏み出した明治時代は、実はとても厳しい社会でした。社会が大きく変化する中、人々は必死に働き、頑張りました。

Elbridge A. Colby was the lead architect of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the most significant revision of US defense strategy in a generation. Here he lays out how America's defense must change to address China's growing power and ambition. Based firmly in the realist tradition but deeply engaged in current policy, this book offers a clear framework for what America's goals in confronting China must be, how its military strategy must change, and how it must prioritize these goals over its lesser interests.

知識は武器だ!激動の17世紀、学問と技術の革新をリードした大思想家による思い込みを打ち破る名言集

In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.

A vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day.

Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring.

"Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed causality - the study of cause and effect - on a firm scientific basis.