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)

爱德华·P. 亚历山大 Edward P. Alexander 教授是国际知名博物馆学家，曾任美国纽约州历史学会会长、威斯康星州历史学会会长等，是美国德拉华大学博物馆学学科的创始人，并荣登美国博物馆协会“百年荣誉榜”。 玛丽·亚历山大 Mary Alexander 是美国华盛顿特区的一位博物馆教育员和管理员，曾在多家博物馆任职，并出版多本博物馆学术研究著作。

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.

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.

Joining the ancient debate over the roles of reason and appetite in the moral mind, In Praise of Desire takes the side of appetite. Acting for moral reasons, acting in a praiseworthy manner, and acting out of virtue amount to nothing more than acting out of intrinsic desires for the right or the good, correctly conceived. Reason, understood as the power to deliberate about what...(展开全部)

[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。

DESCRIPTION Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it’s not worth an hour of trouble? What possible relationship can there be between mathematics and happiness? That is precisely the issue at stake in this dialogue, which serves as a very accessible introduction to what mat...(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)

Learning in the Museum confronts the educational role which museums can have and shows how research in visitor studies and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a meaningful educational experience in museums. The book contains a brief history of education in public museums, and goes on to examine how the educational theories of Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky rela...(展开全部)