Hatred of Sex links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim Dean contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood and undermines identity, rendering us all a little more dep...(展开全部)

Hatred of Sex links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim Dean contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood and undermines identity, rendering us all a little more dep...(展开全部)

This title offers a vehement defense of the principle of democracy against neoconservative repression. Jacques Ranciere argues that the West can no longer simply extol the virtues of democracy by contrasting it with the horrors of totalitarianism. As certain governments are exporting democracy by brute force, and a reactionary strand in mainstream political opinion is willing t...(展开全部)

In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Rancière explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom. As America and its allies use their military might in the misguided attempt to export a desiccated version democracy, and reactionary strands in mainstream political opinion abandon civil liberties, Rancière argues t...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 雅克·朗西埃（1940— ） 当代法国最重要的哲学家之一，欧洲研究生院哲学教授，巴黎第八大学哲学荣誉教授。1968年，他与自己的导师路易·阿尔都塞等人合著《读<资本论>》，并由此声名鹊起，但之后两人因对“五月风暴”态度迥然而公开决裂。朗西埃出版了一系列学术作品，主要探究那些建构起我们对政治话语的理解之关键概念，如意识形态和工人运动等。近年来，朗西埃的写作内容主要集中于美学、艺术哲学、人权议题领域。代表作另有《图像的命运》《政治的边缘》《文学的政治》《词语的肉身》《哲学家和他的穷人们》等。 【译者简介】 李磊 毕业于武汉理工大学文法学院，现从事教育相关工作。研究方向为伦理学、政治哲学。

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: 'I, too, dislike it,' wrote Marianne Moore.' Many more people agree they hate poetry,' Ben Lerner writes,'than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable i...(展开全部)

A KIND OF SPARK tells the story of 11-year-old Addie as she campaigns for a memorial in memory of the witch trials that took place in her Scottish hometown. Addie knows there's more to the story of these 'witches', just like there is more to hers. Can Addie challenge how the people in her town see her, and her autism, and make her voice heard? A story about friendship, courage ...(展开全部)

A KIND OF SPARK tells the story of 11-year-old Addie as she campaigns for a memorial in memory of the witch trials that took place in her Scottish hometown. Addie knows there's more to the story of these 'witches', just like there is more to hers. Can Addie challenge how the people in her town see her, and her autism, and make her voice heard? A story about friendship, courage ...(展开全部)