Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontes, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer -- Terry Eagleton's achievements are many and his combative intelligence widely admired and respected. His skill as a reviewer is particularly notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer and the theses of a book, Eagle...(展开全部)

Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontes, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer...Terry Eagleton's achievements are many and his combative intelligence widely admired and respected. His skill as a reviewer is particularly notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer and the theses of a book, Eaglet...(展开全部)

Democratic governments are able to elicit, legally and legitimately, both money and men from their populations. Certainly there is tax evasion, draft evasion, and even outright resistance; yet to a remarkable extent citizens acquiesce and even actively consent to the demands of governments, well beyond the point explicable by coercion. This is a puzzle for social scientists, pa...(展开全部)

作者简介： 雅克·朗西埃(Jacques Rancière，1940—)，法国当代著名思想家，巴黎第八大学哲学、美学和文艺学教授。其论述主要涉及文学、电影与政治等哲学思考，代表作有《图像的命运》《词语的肉身》《美学中的不适》等。 译者简介： 蓝江，1977年9月出生，湖北荆州人，南京大学哲学系教授、博士生导师，南京大学马克思主义社会理论研究中心研究员，江苏省青年社科英才，主要研究方向为国外马克思主义、当代欧陆激进左翼思想。主要著作有《忠于事件本身：巴迪欧哲学思想导论》《阿甘本五讲》。主要译著有阿兰·巴迪欧的《存在与事件》《哲学宣言》《第二哲学宣言》《元政治学概述》《数学颂》《世纪》等，阿甘本的《语言的圣礼》《宁芙》《王国与荣耀》等。

“The equality of all before the light and the inequality of the little people as the great pass by are both written on the same photographic plate.” With this sentence, Jacques Rancière effectively aligns his conception of aesthetic theory as the always antagonistic distribution of the sensible under the sign of the demand for equality with the invention of photography. It is a...(展开全部)

Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists cannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Quentin Tarantino and Desperate Housewives to Dostoyevsky, Zizek mixes high theory with low culture more engagingly than any other thinker alive today. His prolific output includes such media friendly content as a TV series (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) a docum...(展开全部)

One of the best short story collections of the last ten years, back in print in a new edition.

With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations ...(展开全部)

Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of masterpieces and recently it has taken Hollywood by storm. The lead story in the collection will soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams, while another story has been optioned by Fox and is in development. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Stories of Your Life ...(展开全部)

Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in mo...(展开全部)