Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarmé to the Folies-Bergère, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film set...(展开全部)

The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in...(展开全部)

A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller's treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy's most profound works. An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary society -- and of the French Revolution, in particular -- to define the relationship between beauty and art.

Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever. In The Art of Statistics, David ...(展开全部)

David Spiegelhalter is a British statistician and Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He was also elected as President of the Royal Statistical Society for 2017-18. In addition to presenting documentaries on BBC4, he has appeared on Infinite Monkey Cage, BBC Horizon, and the Life Scientific...(展开全部)

Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. Here are the ambitious writers who crowded into Paris seeking fame and fortune within the Republic of Letters, but who instead sank into the miserable world of Grub St...(展开全部)

罗伯特·达恩顿（Robert Darnton），著名的欧洲文化史学者。1939年生于纽约。1960年毕业于哈佛大学。1964年获牛津大学博士学位。1964—1965年担任《纽约时报》记者。1968年进入普林斯顿大学，担任Shelby Cullom Davis欧洲史教授。1999年任美国历史学会主席。2007年从普林斯顿大学荣休，担任哈佛大学Carl H. Pforzheimer教授和哈佛大学图书馆馆长。本人及其著作曾获多项奖励：1995年，《法国革命前的畅销禁书》一书获美国国家图书评论奖；1999年，获法国政府荣誉骑士勋章提名；2004年，获国际符腾堡学会颁发的符腾堡奖；2005年，获美国印刷史学会杰出贡献奖。

This is a companion volume to The Arrival, comprising 50 pages of my preliminary sketches, research materials and commentary on the evolution of this project. It is currently part of a special boxed edition of The Arrival produced by Hachette Australia, from September 2010. For further information, visit the Hachette Website.