There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and, exploding social divisions and ruptures. But, he asks, if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end ...(展开全部)

John Pellam had been in the trenches of filmmaking, with a promising Hollywood career - until tragedy sidetracked him. Now he's a location scout, travelling the country in search of shooting sites for films. But in a small town in upstate New York, Pellam's illusionary world is shattered by a savage murder, and he is suddenly centre stage in an unfolding drama of violence, lust...(展开全部)

This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking--nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. The author presents "literature" as a set of for...(展开全部)

This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking--nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. The author presents "literature" as a set of for...(展开全部)

乔纳森·弗兰岑（Jonathan Franzen） 美国小说家、随笔作家。 1959年生于伊利诺伊州。1996年在《哈泼氏》杂志发表长篇随笔《偶尔做梦》，从此受到广泛关注。迄今为止，出版有小说《纠正》《自由》《纯洁》，回忆录《不舒适地带：个人史》，以及随笔集《如何独处》《地球尽头的尽头》等。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。

罗伯特·达恩顿(Robert Darnton），普林斯顿大学教授，哈佛大学图书馆馆长，图书史专家，欧洲文化史专家。曾任牛津大学出版社北美分部理事，发起、参与大量的图书史研究，电子书启蒙运动项目，在图书领域具有丰富的商业、学术背景，他和他的著作曾获多项学术奖和图书奖。在中国，因经典著作《屠猫记》、《启蒙运动的生意》、《拉莫莱特之吻：有关文化史的思考》为读者熟知。

罗伯特·达恩顿(Robert Darnton），普林斯顿大学教授，哈佛大学图书馆馆长，图书史专家，欧洲文化史专家。曾任牛津大学出版社北美分部理事，发起、参与大量的图书史研究，电子书启蒙运动项目，在图书领域具有丰富的商业、学术背景，他和他的著作曾获多项学术奖和图书奖。在中国，因经典著作《屠猫记》、《启蒙运动的生意》、《拉莫莱特之吻：有关文化史的思考》为读者熟知。

Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contributi...(展开全部)

罗伯特·达恩顿(Robert Darnton），普林斯顿大学教授，哈佛大学图书馆馆长，图书史专家，欧洲文化史专家。曾任牛津大学出版社北美分部理事，发起、参与大量的图书史研究，电子书启蒙运动项目，在图书领域具有丰富的商业、学术背景，他和他的著作曾获多项学术奖和图书奖。在中国，因经典著作《屠猫记》、《启蒙运动的生意》、《拉莫莱特之吻：有关文化史的思考》为读者熟知。