These days our culture teaches that faster is better. But in the race to keep up, everything suffers - our work, diet and health, our relationships and sex lives. We are in such a hurry that anyone or anything that slows us down becomes the enemy. Carl Honore uncovers a movement that challenges the cult of speed by proving that slower is often better. The Slow movement is not a...(展开全部)

If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship. In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopt...(展开全部)

If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship. In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopt...(展开全部)

玛吉·伯格，英国牛津大学文学博士、加拿大女王大学英文系教授，多次获得学校的教学卓越奖，从2008 年至2012 年主持女王大学的教与学讲席，研究领域为英国维多利亚时期文学、文学理论、性别和性态。 芭芭拉·西伯，加拿大女王大学文学博士、加拿大布鲁克大学英文系教授，2014 年曾获得布鲁克大学人文学部教学卓越奖，教研领域为18 世纪至19 世纪英国小说、简·奥斯丁、动物研究。 田雷，华东师范大学法学院教授。本书翻译初稿完成于在北京大学文研院驻访期间，后改定于2020年春季新冠疫情全球蔓延时。完成本书翻译后，他开始学会理直气壮地慢下来，唯一迫不及待的是要与学界同仁分享本书，找寻慢中同道。

In this provocative reassessment of C. G. Jung's thought, Richard Noll boldly argues that such ideas as the "collective unconscious" and the theory of the archetypes come as much from late nineteenth-century occultism, neo-paganism, and social Darwinian teachings as they do from natural science. Noll sees the break with Sigmund Freud in 1912 not as a split within the psychoanal...(展开全部)

In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal is a new history of voluntary flagellation in Europe, from its invention in medieval religious devotion to its use in the modern pornographic imagination. Working with a wide range of religious, literary, and medical texts and images, Niklaus Largier explores the emotional and sensual, religious and erotic excitement of the w...(展开全部)

In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developed by Badiou in works such as Rhapsody for the Theatre and the ‘Theses on Theatre’ and enquires into the status of a theatre that would be ...(展开全部)

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.

[英]伯特兰·罗素（1872-1970） Bertrand Russell 英国哲学家、数学家、文学家，分析哲学的主要创始人。1950年获得诺贝尔文学奖。他一生驰骋于数学、逻辑、哲学、政治、社会、历史、道德、宗教、教育等各个领域，写下了六十多部著作和大量文章，对二十世纪的思想文化和社会生活产生了巨大的影响，被人们誉为“世纪的智者”。主要作品有《西方哲学史》《哲学问题》《心的分析》《幸福之路》等。 仝欣 译者，译有《论生命之短暂》《我的不朽已然足够：塔可夫斯基图文集》等。

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.