Do Lost in the art--the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French Poet Clement Marot. "Le ton beau de Marot" literally means "The sweet tone of Marot", but to a Frenc...(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。

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)

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, this best-selling book by one of Japan's most ambitious contemporary fiction writers lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in an age of English dominance. Born in Tokyo but also raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge, ...(展开全部)

The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society's growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in recent years, museums have been under attack, with critics arguing that they are little more than relics and promoter...(展开全部)

Throughout the history of ideas, various branches of philosophy have spun off into the natural sciences, including physics, biology, and perhaps most recently, cognitive psychology. A central theme of this collection is that the philosophy of language, at least a core portion of it, has matured to the point where it is now being spun off into linguistic theory. Each section of ...(展开全部)

西扎讲的是：重访萨沃依； 埃森曼的话题是：现代主义的一面：多米诺住宅与自我援引的符号。 库哈斯讲的是：光明之城。。。。。

西扎讲的是：重访萨沃依； 埃森曼的话题是：现代主义的一面：多米诺住宅与自我援引的符号。 库哈斯讲的是：光明之城。。。。。