The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter Rene Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on the prop...(展开全部)

The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter Rene Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on the prop...(展开全部)

The works of René Magritte (1898 - 1967) and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting. In the search for the "mystery" in which things and organisms are enveloped, Magritte created pictures which, taking everyday reality as their starting point, were to follow a different logic from that to which we are ac...(展开全部)

The works of René Magritte (1898 - 1967) and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting. In the search for the "mystery" in which things and organisms are enveloped, Magritte created pictures which, taking everyday reality as their starting point, were to follow a different logic from that to which we are ac...(展开全部)

From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", René Magritte (1898–1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation. Like other Surrealist works, Magritte’s paintings combine a precise, mimetic technique with abnormal, alienating configurations which defy the laws of scal...(展开全部)

In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy.</P>...(展开全部)

Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis.

薩維耶‧凱能（Xavier Canonne） 比利時夏勒華攝影博物館館長，「揭相：馬格利特影像」展覽策展人。 於布魯塞爾Libre大學，研習藝術史，後於巴黎Sorbonne大學取得藝術史及考古學博士學位。曾策劃過曼‧雷、黎米勒、比利時超現實主義等展覽，並撰寫相關專書。 ■譯者簡介 陳玫妏 新北市人。荷蘭萊頓大學博士。曾擔任中研院研究助理、文教類廣播節目主持、社區與大學院校人文課程講師。現定居荷蘭，專職翻譯。譯有《我這樣告訴我女兒：寫給女孩們的信，關於勇氣、覺察、自信的能量與幸福未來》等書。 蘇威任 業餘（但專業的）法文口譯，法、英文筆譯。巴黎第七大學博士候選人，但現在發現有比唸博士更有趣的事。三十遊歷，四十而惑。譯有《產品設計，怎麼回事？》、《心靈之眼：決定性瞬間，布列松談攝影》、《藝術史的一千零一夜》等書。

Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles reader...(展开全部)

斯拉沃热·齐泽克（Slavoj Zizek，1949～），斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那大学社会学研究所资深研究员，欧美众多大学客座教授，大名鼎鼎的欧陆哲学家，魅力四射的演说家，光彩夺目的文化理论家，人称“文化理论界的猫王”、“屹立于人类智力顶峰”的“卢布尔雅那巨人”，“几十年来强大无比的杰出阐释者”，自称“一定意义上的共产主义者”和“激进左翼分子”。他深受黑格尔主义、马克思主义和拉康精神分析理论的影响，擅长以通俗文化产品解读拉康的精神分析理论，并以拉康精神分析理论、黑格尔哲学和马克思主义政治经济学解析最新的社会文化现象。他“把一切纳入自己的研究领域”，颇有“席卷天下，包举宇内”之势，同时“把理论的严密性与阅读的强制性融为一炉”，“是反直觉观察的大师”。