Renowned social critic John O'Neill takes the human body as the focal point of his inquiry into the complex relation of individuals, nature and social institutions. The body once served as the foundation for thinking about politics, society, and the world, O'Neill asserts, but this human proportion has been lost in the modern world. Carefully delineating the course and the cons...(展开全部)

Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system—Wiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex a...(展开全部)

Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system—Wiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex a...(展开全部)

Marginalized by the scientific age with its metaphysical and philosophical systems, the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. Exploring the deleterious effects of the systematic downgrading of the senses in Western philosophy, Michel Serres member of the Acad mie franaise and one of France's leading philosophers t...(展开全部)

Marginalized by the scientific age with its metaphysical and philosophical systems, the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. Exploring the deleterious effects of the systematic downgrading of the senses in Western philosophy, Michel Serres member of the Acad mie franaise and one of France's leading philosophers t...(展开全部)

In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process. For centuries, philosophers have been divided on the nature of language. Those in the ...(展开全部)

The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review and is the oldest scientific journal in continuous publication in the world...(展开全部)

The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review and is the oldest scientific journal in continuous publication in the world...(展开全部)

-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)

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