Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character rethinks these questions from the ground up. Is it really necessary to remind literary critics that characters are made up of words?...(展开全部)

Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to “traditional values,” in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only on the far fringes through most of the postwar era? Does it herald a new wave of ...(展开全部)

Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to “traditional values,” in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only on the far fringes through most of the postwar era? Does it herald a new wave of ...(展开全部)

Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, and xenophobia, along with paeans to “traditional values,” in brazen bids for electoral support. How do we understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only on the far fringes during most of the post-War era? Does it herald a novel...(展开全部)

Always connect—that is the imperative of today’s media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself—those messages that state: “There will be no more messages”? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual und...(展开全部)

Always connect—that is the imperative of today’s media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself—those messages that state: “There will be no more messages”? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual und...(展开全部)

This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The first study focuses on the relationship of reason, the individual, and society in Hegel, defending him against the criticism that he was merely an apologist for bourgeois society. The second study examines the expe...(展开全部)

作者简介 德国著名哲学家、美学家和社会学家，法兰克福学派“第一代”的主要代表人物，社会批判理论的奠基人之一。阿多诺一生著述甚丰，涉猎广泛，主要著作有：《否定的辩证法》《启蒙辩证法》《美学理论》《最低限度的道德》《新音乐哲学》《棱镜：文化批判与社会》《文学笔记》等。 译者介绍 谢永康，哲学博士，2007年毕业于南开大学哲学系，现为海南大学社会科学研究中心教授、南开大学哲学院讲座教授，博士生导师。德国耶拿大学、奥地利维也纳大学访问学者。从事马克思主义哲学基础理论和近现代德国哲学（社会批判理论）研究。著有《形而上学的批判与拯救：阿多诺否定辩证法的逻辑和影响》《后主体性哲学的视域：马克思唯物主义的当代阐释》（合著），另有译著若干。在《中国社会科学》《哲学研究》等杂志发表学术论文50余篇。主持和参与国家社科基金项目多项，先后入选教育部“新世纪优秀人才支持计划”...(展开全部)

This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The first study focuses on the relationship of reason, the individual, and society in Hegel, defending him against the criticism that he was merely an apologist for bourgeois society. The second study examines the expe...(展开全部)