Material Hermeneutics explores the ways in which new imaging technologies and scientific instruments have changed our notions about ancient history. From the first lunar calendar to the black hole image, and from an ancient mummy in the Italian Alps to the irrigated valleys of Mesopotamia, this book demonstrates how revolutions in science have taught us far more than we imagine...(展开全部)

Material Hermeneutics explores the ways in which new imaging technologies and scientific instruments have changed our notions about ancient history. From the first lunar calendar to the black hole image, and from an ancient mummy in the Italian Alps to the irrigated valleys of Mesopotamia, this book demonstrates how revolutions in science have taught us far more than we imagine...(展开全部)

克里斯蒂娜·娜丰(Cristina Laront)，德国法兰克福大学哲学博士，美国西北大学哲学教授，主要研究领域为德国哲学，特别是解释学与批判理沦。

The linguistic turn in German philosophy was initiated in the eighteenth century in the work of Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. It was further developed in this century by Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer extended its influence to contemporary philosophers such as Karl-Otto Apel and J?Habermas. This tradition focuses on the wo...(展开全部)

This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a `material turn' in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organization of colonial form...(展开全部)

Review History, Theory, Text offers a survey of the debates that have surrounded the discipline of history from the late-nineteenth up to the twenty-first century...This work certainly makes a valuable "contribution"...to the short list of the studies in which trade historians look at the debates surrounding their own practice. The book should thus appeal to Clark's colleagues,...(展开全部)

Review History, Theory, Text offers a survey of the debates that have surrounded the discipline of history from the late-nineteenth up to the twenty-first century...This work certainly makes a valuable "contribution"...to the short list of the studies in which trade historians look at the debates surrounding their own practice. The book should thus appeal to Clark's colleagues,...(展开全部)

In this work of sweeping erudition, one of our foremost historians of early Christianity considers a variety of theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Elizabeth Clark argues forcefully for a renewal of the study of premodern Western history through engagement with the kinds of critical methods that have tra...(展开全部)

From its humble origins in J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the performative will remain vital in the twenty-first century, arguing that it was never m...(展开全部)

From its humble origins in J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the performative will remain vital in the twenty-first century, arguing that it was never m...(展开全部)