《湖上闲思录》为作者1948年徜佯于湖光胜景中闲思遐想的结晶,分别就人类精神和文化领域诸多或具体或抽象的相对命题。如情与欲、理与气、善与恶等作了灵动,细腻而深刻的分析与阐发,从二元对立的视角思索了人类存在的基本问题。全书言浅意深,语重心长,既见出史家的沈潜与细密,又见出哲人的深邃和文学家的灵透与光彩、显示了作者多样的才华。

SUMMARY: Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people's lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that the Party cannot control - something like love, perhaps?

SUMMARY: Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same road that Germany followed to Nazism.Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial ?truth,? the public good, doing one?s duty--these are among the seductive catch-phrases that Leonard Peikoff dissects, examining the kind of philosophy they symbolize, the type of thinking that lured Germany to its doom and that he says is now prevalent in the United States.Here is a frightening look at where America may be heading, a clarion call for all who are concerned about preserving our right to individual freedom.