马丁·海德格尔（Martin Heidegger）出身于一个天主教家庭，早年在教会学校读书。17岁时，从一个神父那里借到布伦坦诺的《亚里士多德所说的存在的多重意义》一书，对存在意义的问题产生兴趣。他在大学先学神学二年，后转入哲学，1913年在弗莱堡大学在李凯尔特的指导下完成博士学位论文《心理主义的判断学说》，他的讲师资格论文题目是《邓·司各脱关于范畴的学说和意义的理论》。在弗莱堡大学任教期间，他参加胡塞尔主持的研究班。1922－1926年，在马堡大学任副教授，讲授亚里士多德、柏拉图、笛卡尔、康德等人的著作，把他们的问题转变为关于存在的问题。1927年，为晋升教授职称，发表未完手稿《存在与时间》。据说，当这本书送到教育部审查时，部长的评语是“不合格”。但就是这样一本被官员判定为不合格的书成为20世纪最重要的哲学著作之一。1928年，海德格尔接替胡塞尔，...(展开全部)

希格弗莱德·吉迪恩 (Sigfried Giedion / Siegfried Giedion) (1888年4月14日，布拉格—1968年4月10日，苏黎世) 是一位波西米亚裔瑞士历史学家及建筑评论家。他的作品《空间·时间·建筑》及 《机械化的决定作用》（Mech anization Takes Command）对于在20世纪60年代在伦敦当代艺术中心成立的独立团体（Independent Group）的成员具有概念性的深远影响。 他曾任国际建筑会议（Congrès International dArchitecture Moderne）秘书长，师从海因里希·沃尔夫林，先后执教麻省理工学院、哈佛大学、苏黎世大学，曾任哈佛大学设计研究生院院长，曾于苏黎世大学执教艺术史。

A classic work, first published in 1941, translated into half a dozen languages, and now in a fifth edition, "Space, Time and Architecture" is an unparalleled work on the shaping of our architectural environment. The discussions of leading architects - Wright, Gropius, Le Corbusier, Van der Rohe, Aalto, Utzon, Sert, Tange, and Maki - are accompanied by over 500 illustrations.

希格弗莱德·吉迪恩 (Sigfried Giedion / Siegfried Giedion) (1888年4月14日，布拉格—1968年4月10日，苏黎世) 是一位波西米亚裔瑞士历史学家及建筑评论家。他的作品《空间·时间·建筑》及 《机械化的决定作用》（Mech anization Takes Command）对于在20世纪60年代在伦敦当代艺术中心成立的独立团体（Independent Group）的成员具有概念性的深远影响。 他曾任国际建筑会议（Congrès International dArchitecture Moderne）秘书长，师从海因里希·沃尔夫林，先后执教麻省理工学院、哈佛大学、苏黎世大学，曾任哈佛大学设计研究生院院长，曾于苏黎世大学执教艺术史。

This book, ten years in the making, is the first factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time" (1927), a key twentieth-century text whose background until now has been conspicuously absent. Through painstaking investigation of European archives and private correspondence, Theodore Kisiel provides an unbroken account of the philosopher's early development...(展开全部)

This book, ten years in the making, is the first factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time" (1927), a key twentieth-century text whose background until now has been conspicuously absent. Through painstaking investigation of European archives and private correspondence, Theodore Kisiel provides an unbroken account of the philosopher's early development...(展开全部)

National Bestseller "Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."-- Daily News From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being , her most profound narrative to date. With...(展开全部)

Edward Snow's A Study of Vermeer, first published in 1979 and here presented in an expanded and elaborately revised version, starts from a single premise: that we respond so intensely to Vermeer because his paintings reach so deeply into our lives. Our desire for images, the distances that separate us, the validations we seek from the still world, the traces of ghostliness in o...(展开全部)

"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism—as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought— Being and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the...(展开全部)

One of the most important philosophical works of our time -- a work that has had tremendous influence on philosophy, literature, and psychology, and has literally changed the intellectual map of the modern world.</P>