In "Bodies That Matter," Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in "Gender" "Trouble," Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bo...(展开全部)

朱迪斯·巴特勒，956年出生于美国，耶鲁大学哲学博士，加州大学伯克利分校修辞与比较文学系教授。巴特勒是当代最著名的后现代主义思想家之一，在女性主义批评、性别研究、当代政治哲学和伦理学等学术领域成就卓著，主要著作有《性别麻烦》、《身体之重》、《消解性别》、《欲望的主体》等。

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from...(展开全部)

In "Bodies That Matter," Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in "Gender" "Trouble," Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bo...(展开全部)

Dreams that Matter explores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. Amira Mittermaier guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss all forms of divination as superstition, a Sufi devotional group that keeps a diary of dreams related to its shaykh, and ordinary belie...(展开全部)

Roberto Piazza says: 'Physics should be made simple enough to be amusing, but not so trivial as to spoil the fun'. This is exactly the approach of this book in making the science of 'soft matter' relevant to everyday life - things such as the food we eat, the plastic we use, the concrete we build with, the cells we are made of.

Roberto Piazza says: 'Physics should be made simple enough to be amusing, but not so trivial as to spoil the fun'. This is exactly the approach of this book in making the science of 'soft matter' relevant to everyday life - things such as the food we eat, the plastic we use, the concrete we build with, the cells we are made of.

-作者简介- 吉奥乔·阿甘本(Giorgio Agamben，1942—)，意大利哲学家，当代具有世界影响力的思想家之一，其著述跨越政治哲学、法理学、神学、本体论、艺术、美学、文学等多学科领域。他对“赤裸生命”“例外状态”“生命权力”等概念的探索塑造了当代政治哲学有关主权、生命政治及法律与暴力之关系的讨论。 -译者简介- 蓝江，1977年生，湖北荆州人。南京大学哲学学院教授博士生导师。主要研究方向为国外马克思主义、当代欧陆激进左翼思想、数字资本主义，著有《如何思考全球数字资本主义？：当代社会批判理论下的哲学反思》《一般数据、虚体与数字资本：历史唯物主义视域下的数字资本主义批判》《忠于事件本身：巴迪欧哲学思想导论》等。译有阿甘本《王国与荣耀：安济与治理的神学谱系》《什么是哲学》》《语言的圣礼：誓言考古学》及巴迪欧《存在与事件》《存在与事件2：世界的逻辑...(展开全部)

In Impossibility, John D. Barrow--one of our most elegant and accomplished science writers--argues convincingly that there are limits to human discovery, that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable. Barrow first examines the limits of the human mind: our brain evolved to meet the demands of our immediate environment, and much that lies outside...(展开全部)

Barrow, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Sussex, has written a very engaging and even playful book. He attempts to show how certain "laws" governing "Nature" help us to separate the possible from the impossible....Barrow's book enjoyable, informative, and thought provoking.