Insects have inspired fear, fascination, and enlightenment for centuries. They are capable of incredibly complex behaviour, even with brains often the size of a poppy seed. How do they accomplish feats that look like human activity - personality, language, and childcare - with completely different pathways from our own? What is going on inside the mind of those ants that march ...(展开全部)

Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild —is the person thousands tu...(展开全部)

In 1950 Krishnamurti said: "It is only when the mind is not escaping in any form that it is possible to be in direct communion with that thing we call lonliness, the alone, and to have communion with that thing, there must be affection, there must be love." On Love and Lonliness is a compelling investigation of our intimate relationships with ourselves, others, and society. K...(展开全部)

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addre...(展开全部)

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addre...(展开全部)

Observing that love exists in many forms, Stendhal begins his 'study' by classifying the different types - romantic, passionate, courtly - whilst musing on love's birth. He identifies the seven stages of falling in love, proffering wise advice for the ardent lover, not least how to 'crystallise' the object of one's desire. Yet beneath these clever philosophical musings can be s...(展开全部)

In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahoraki himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselve...(展开全部)

In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahoraki himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselve...(展开全部)

克拉斯诺霍尔卡伊·拉斯洛（Krasznahorkai László，1954— ），匈牙利当代 重要的作家之一，一九五四年生于匈牙利贝凯什州。一九八五年出版长篇小说《撒旦探戈》，备受文坛赞誉。一九八六年短篇小说集《仁慈的关系》问世，一九八七年移居德国柏林，一九八九年出版长篇小说《反抗的忧郁》，该小说于一九九三年获得德国年度 文学作品奖。二○○四年，拉斯洛获得匈牙利 重要的文学奖项科苏特奖，二○一五年被授予 布克奖，成为首位获此殊荣的匈牙利作家。拉斯洛的多部作品已被匈牙利 导演贝拉·塔尔改编为电影，由其代表作《撒旦探戈》改编的同名电影是电影 不朽的经典。《世界在前进》 出版于二○一三年，是拉斯洛写作生涯中的第二部短篇小说集，英译本入围二○一八年 布克奖短名单。

- 作者简介 - 吉尔伯特·西蒙东（Gilbert Simondon，1924—1989），法国哲学家，主要著作有《个体及其物理—生物起源》、《心理与集体的个体生成》和《论技术物的存在模式》。他对个体生成、技术物等概念的阐发深刻地影响了吉尔·德勒兹、菲利克斯·加塔利、贝尔纳·斯蒂格勒、布鲁诺·拉图尔等哲学家。 - 译者简介 - 宋德超，巴黎第八大学法国语言与文学专业博士，现任教于西安外国语大学欧洲学院，研究方向为语言的诗学与政治学，译有《追寻消失的真实》等书。