How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works, the destruction of experience no longer...(展开全部)

How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works, the destruction of experience no longer...(展开全部)

吉奥乔·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）（1942～）意大利著名政治哲学家、思想家；任欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授、意大利维罗拉大学美学教授、巴黎国际哲学学院哲学教授，并在德国杜塞尔多夫市海涅大学以及美国多所大学任客座教授，包括加州大学伯克利分校、圣克鲁斯分校、西北大学等。重要著作有《未来共同体》（The Coming community，1993年）《牲人：主权与赤裸生命》（Homo Sacer：Sovereign Power and Bare Life，1998年）、《例外状态》（State of Exception，2005年）等。阿甘本在欧陆哲学传统和人文历史语境中，在对未来共同体的想象性建构中，展开生命、政治、文学、艺术和宗教领域的全面探讨。玄妙深奥的语言风格、融会贯通的思想体系、切实深刻的现世关注，使他成为当今最...(展开全部)

吉奥乔·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）（1942～）意大利著名政治哲学家、思想家；任欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授、意大利维罗拉大学美学教授、巴黎国际哲学学院哲学教授，并在德国杜塞尔多夫市海涅大学以及美国多所大学任客座教授，包括加州大学伯克利分校、圣克鲁斯分校、西北大学等。重要著作有《未来共同体》（The Coming community，1993年）《牲人：主权与赤裸生命》（Homo Sacer：Sovereign Power and Bare Life，1998年）、《例外状态》（State of Exception，2005年）等。阿甘本在欧陆哲学传统和人文历史语境中，在对未来共同体的想象性建构中，展开生命、政治、文学、艺术和宗教领域的全面探讨。玄妙深奥的语言风格、融会贯通的思想体系、切实深刻的现世关注，使他成为当今最...(展开全部)

In response to an overwhelming resurgence of interest in recent years in the work and life of Walter Benjamin, along with a marked increase in the availability of Benjamin's own work (both in the form new translations and new editions of already available texts), this is a timely reappearance of Walter Benjamin's Philosophy - Destruction and Experience - an influential and auth...(展开全部)

This book covers Husserl's stance on the philosopher and the history of philosophy, whether or not such a history is part of the philosophical attitude itself, and if so, how Husserl's phenomenology might weigh in on such matters. Firstly, this text spells out some of the manifold ways in which the history of philosophy works its way in Husserl's phenomenology, showing how conc...(展开全部)

This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself. At the same time he reveals how Kant's moral theory in...(展开全部)

Volume 6 of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin offers the first translation of the full German text of Anamnesis published in 1966. The previous English edition, translated by Gerhart Niemeyer, focused largely on the sections of Anamnesis dealing directly with Voegelin's philosophy of consciousness. It omitted some of the extensive historical studies on which the philosophy o...(展开全部)

The nature of perception has long been a central question in philosophy. It is of crucial importance not just in the philosophy of mind, but also in epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science. The essays in this 1992 volume not only offer fresh answers to some of the traditional problems of perception, but also examine the subject in light of contempor...(展开全部)

The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction-and surprising survival-of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful ...(展开全部)