Why are Germans so well informed on World War II while most Japanese know almost nothing about it? Why do the majority of West Germans feel guilty, Japanese victimised, and 'Ossies' virtuous? Ian Buruma explores the causes of these varied attitudes, both in the past culture of each country and in their post-war treatment and other subsequent events, and looks at how they were ...(展开全部)

In his first book, French critic Roland Barthes defines the complex nature of writing, as well as the social, historical, political, and personal forces responsible for the formal changes in writing from the classical period to recent times.

出版社/著者からの内容紹介 写真は創造ではなく、記憶でもなく、ドキュメントであると、私は考える。撮影行為とは、抽象的なことではなく、常に具体的だ。単純なことを観念化して難しいものにしようとするのではなく、カメラという媒体を通して私が出会った現実がここにある。──中平卓馬 中平卓馬展「原点復帰─横浜」（横浜美術館、2003年）に際して刊行された、伝説の写真家・中平卓馬の全貌を知る貴重な一冊。 中平卓馬（1938年生まれ）は「アレ・ブレ・ボケ」と呼ばれた初期の詩的な作品を自ら否定し、「図鑑」のような即物的な写真を目指す最中の1977年に、逗子で倒れ記憶の大部分を失いました。 しかし、横浜に転居して翌年より撮影を再開、徐々に復活を果たし、現在も日々撮影行為を続けています。横浜は、写真家としての復帰の「原点」 であり、現在も日常的に最も多く撮影している場所で...(展开全部)

Through sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the nature of concrete in the form of precast, cast in place or blocks. Each of his renowned works in exposed concrete, such as the Yale Art Gallery, the Richards Laboratories, the Bath House, the Salk Institute, the National Assembly, the Kimbell Museum, the Exeter Library and the Yale Center for British Art, is itse...(展开全部)

Roland Barthes's 1980 book Camera Lucida is perhaps the most influential book ever published on photography. The terms studium and punctum, coined by Barthes for two different ways of responding to photographs, are part of the standard lexicon for discussions of photography; Barthes's understanding of photographic time and the relationship he forges between photography and deat...(展开全部)

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What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology bo...(展开全部)

斯卡莱特在欧美属于冷门作家，作品仅有五本，也不受到评论者和爱好者的关注。不过，因为江户川乱步根据《安琪尔家的命案》写成翻案作品《恐怖的三角公馆》而在日本较为有名。战前就翻译过斯卡莱特的作品，战后也翻译过，目前五本作品均有译本。也算是黄金时代的“幻之作家”。