Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self--understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self--understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self--understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.

A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy. Niko Kolodny argues that, to a far greater extent than we recognize, our political thinking is driven by a concern to avoid relations of inferiority. In order to make sense of the most familiar ideas in our polit...(展开全部)

A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy. Niko Kolodny argues that, to a far greater extent than we recognize, our political thinking is driven by a concern to avoid relations of inferiority. In order to make sense of the most familiar ideas in our polit...(展开全部)

韩炳哲（Byung-Chul Han） 德国新生代思想家。1959年生于韩国首尔，80年代在韩国学习冶金学，之后远渡重洋到德国学习哲学、文学和天主教神学。1994年，以研究海德格尔的论文获得弗莱堡大学博士学位。2000年任教于瑞士巴塞尔大学，2010年任教于卡尔斯鲁厄建筑与艺术大学，2012年任教于德国柏林艺术大学。 西班牙《国家报》（El País）誉其为“德国哲学界的一颗新星”。作品被译成十几种语言，在世界范围内引起广泛关注。 清新的文风，清晰的思想，深察洞识，切确而犀利的论述，让韩炳哲对于数字时代人类精神状况的批判，显得尤为重要且富于启发。

From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt—and almost everywhere in between—America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time—the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and e...(展开全部)

埃雷兹·艾登  1980年，埃雷兹·艾登出生于美国布鲁克林，精通希伯来语和匈牙利语。本科就读于普林斯顿大学，主修数学、物理学和哲学专业，毕业后考入叶史瓦大学历史学专业，攻读硕士学位。  2009年，在哈佛-麻省理工博德研究所攻读博士学位的艾登被《麻省理工科技评论》提名为世界上前35位年龄小于35岁的创新者。  博士毕业后，艾登先是任职于哈佛大学科研学会，后任谷歌客座教授，随后成为贝勒医学院和莱斯大学的助理教授，领导基因组架构研究中心。2012年，他因和同事一起发明了探测基因3D折叠方式的技术，获得美国总统青年科技奖（PECASE），这是美国政府颁给青年科学家的最高荣誉。 让-巴蒂斯特·米歇尔  数据科学公司量化实验室（Quantified Labs）创始人，哈佛大学副研究员，曾任谷歌客座教授。2010年在哈佛获得博士学位。2012年入选TED...(展开全部)