阿德里安•福蒂，伦敦大学巴特雷特建筑学院的建筑史教授，2003年获米沙•布莱克爵士创新设计教育奖。主要兴趣是社会和文化环境中建筑设计的作用。著作还包括：《语言与建筑：现代建筑的词汇》（1986）、《巴西的现代建筑》（合著，2004）、《混凝土与文化：材料的历史》（2012）等。

Objects of Desire looks at the appearance of consumer goods in the 200 years since the introduction of mechanized production, whether in Josiah Wedgewood's use of neo-classicism for his industrially manufactured pottery or the development of appropriate forms for wirelesses. The argument is illustrated with examples ranging from penknives to computers and from sewing machines t...(展开全部)

迈克尔・卡米尔（Michael Camille,1958-2002），芝加哥大学艺术史教授，于剑桥大学获得博士学位，其后一直在芝加哥大学任教。他是中世纪艺术研究方面的权威，其主要著作有《中世纪的偶像：中世纪艺术中的意识形态和造像》、《边缘上的肖像：中世纪艺术的起源》、《逝去的大师：皮埃尔・雷米特的无生命的艺术》、《饰画人》、《中世纪艺术：幻想与中世纪的启示录》。 译者简介： 刘日明，男，1968年生，江西遂川人。1992年9月考入华东师范大学哲学系，1995年6月获哲学硕士学位；2000年9月考入复旦大学哲学系，2003年6月获哲学博士学位。现为同济大学哲学与社会学系副教授、当代马克思主义哲学研究所副所长、外国哲学专业硕士生导师。主要研究领域为西方政治学与法哲学、西方马克思主义。在《学术季刊》、《人文杂志》、《天津社会科学》、《学术研究》等杂志发表论...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews From Library Journal The representation of love in medieval decorations, paintings, and drawings offers an intriguing glimpse into the society and philosophy of that time. Interpreting these depictions as having a specific purpose?to inspire love or eroticism?Camille (art history, Univ. of Chicago) explores what, according to the period, love meant for the med...(展开全部)

阿德里安•福蒂，伦敦大学巴特雷特建筑学院的建筑史教授，2003年获米沙•布莱克爵士创新设计教育奖。主要兴趣是社会和文化环境中建筑设计的作用。著作还包括：《语言与建筑：现代建筑的词汇》（1986）、《巴西的现代建筑》（合著，2004）、《混凝土与文化：材料的历史》（2012）等。

Japanese photographer and visual artist Murata creates highly detailed photographic stagings which evocatively depict nude models as though they were characters in an erotic fairytale. His enchanting models blithely shed their clothing and reveal their gorgeous nude bodies. What Murata strives to illustrate with these young girls is the image of the hime: an ancient Japanese wo...(展开全部)

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence in Istanbul is the culmination of decades of omnivorous collecting that seeks to capture the city of Pamuk's youth through everyday objects: The ephemera, bric-a-brac, and clutter that adheres to every life. These particular objects are intimately tied to The Museum of Innocence, Pamuk's novel of lost love, which lends its narrative structure t...(展开全部)

The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life....(展开全部)

David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he is acceded to it totally, to the time when he attempts to domesticate his passio...(展开全部)