Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France's most important living philosopher. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. The book makes the scope and aim of Badiou's whole philosophical project clear, enabling full compr...(展开全部)

The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. However central they may be to the question of being in Western thought, from Aristotle to Heidegger, events have always been assigned a derivative status, indeterminate, at the margins ...(展开全部)

The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. However central they may be to the question of being in Western thought, from Aristotle to Heidegger, events have always been assigned a derivative status, indeterminate, at the margins ...(展开全部)

Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France's most important living philosopher. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. The book makes the scope and aim of Badiou's whole philosophical project clear, enabling full compr...(展开全部)

Contemporary philosophy, from Kant through Bergson and Husserl to Heidegger, has assumed that time must be conceived as a fundamental determination of the subject: Time is not first in things but arises from actions, attitudes, or comportments through which a subject temporalizes mtime, expecting or remembering, anticipating the future or making a decision. Event and Time trace...(展开全部)

这是一本关于太空、黑洞和微观宇宙的科幻小说集，包括16篇作品：追赶太阳、冲击参数、穿越黑暗、通过虫洞进出黑洞、遭遇太空海盗等。其中《在太阳下漫步》曾被《科幻世界》翻译成中文，题为《追赶太阳》，描写一位在月球上探险的科学家由于失去了与飞船的联系，为了生存不得不在月球上追赶太阳以求生存。小说发表后受到中国读者的广泛欢迎，《科幻世界》还为此邀请作者到北京和成都与读者见面，被中国读者称为“火星叔叔兰迪斯”，掀起了一股“火星叔叔热”。《穿越黑暗》描述了科学家缩小成原子，穿越黑洞进入以太的惊险故事。《黄蜂的奇特习性》描述福尔莫斯和华生联手破获外星人把受精卵植入伦敦女人体内借胎发肓的阴谋故事。等等。