The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jean-Paul Sartre's pioneering thoughts on individual freedom, which served as a foundation for his role as the political champion of the oppressed.

作者简介： 詹姆斯·莫纳科，电影学者、影评人、作家、出版人、制片人，电影与媒体研究领域的专家。1982年创办了Baseline（全球影视数据资料库），1994年创办了Harbor Electronic Publishing。曾为《纽约时报》《村声》等著名报刊撰稿，担任美国国家公共电 台媒体评论员，也曾在哥伦比亚大学、纽约大学等高校讲课，在美国和欧洲的行业论坛上发言。其他著作有《新浪潮》《电影百科全书》《电影鉴赏指南》《新媒体词典》《媒介文化》等。 译者简介： 刘宇清，西南大学文学院教授，主要研究领域为：电影历史、理论与批评。著有《中国电影的历史审思与当下观察》，编译有《他山之石：海外华语电影研究》，译有《纪录片导论》《让·科克托》《让·热内》《我们何以成为后人类：文学、信息科学和控制论中的虚拟身体》《电影与伦理》《好莱坞简史》。 徐小棠，毕业于北京大...(展开全部)

Michel Foucault was a philosopher of extraordinary talent, political activist, social theorist, cultural critic, and creative historian. He irreversibly shaped the way we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness, and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as f...(展开全部)

Michel Foucault was a twentieth century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He irreversibly shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of th...(展开全部)

约翰娜· 奥克萨拉（Johanna Oksala） 芬兰赫尔辛基大学哲学博士，现为美国芝加哥洛约拉大学教授。研究方向为政治哲学、女性主义、环境哲学、现象学等。出版有《如何阅读福柯》《福柯论自由》《福柯、政治与暴力》《女性主义体验》等著作。 王佳鹏 南京大学新闻传播学院副教授，研究方向为媒介与社会理论、传播社会学、情感社会学。译作有《导读福柯< 性史（第一卷）：认知意志>》等。

Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as Wittgenstein...(展开全部)

The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jacques Lacan's core ideas about enjoyment, which re-created our concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan s motto of the ethics of psychoanalysis involves a profoun...(展开全部)

Soren Kierkegaard's work anticipated fundamental developments in psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology and the critique of mass culture by over a century. Caputo offers an account of Kierkegaard as a thinker of particular relevance in our postmodern times."

S ren Kierkegaard is one of the prophets of the contemporary age, a man whose acute observations on modern European life might have been written yesterday, whose work anticipated fundamental developments in psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and the critique of mass culture by more than a century. John D. Caputo offers a compelling account of Kierkegaard as a thinker of part...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Granta's new How to Read series is based on a very simple, but novel, idea. Most beginners' guides to great thinkers and writers offer either potted biographies or condensed summaries of their major works. How to Read, by contrast, brings the reader face to face with the writing itself in the company of an expert guide. Its starting point is that in order to get close...(展开全部)