Speed and Politics (first published in France in 1977) is the matrix of Virilio's entire work. Building on the works of Morand, Marinetti, and McLuhan, Virilio presents a vision more radically political than that of any of his French contemporaries: speed as the engine of destruction. Speed and Politics presents a topological account of the entire history of humanity, honing in...(展开全部)

Speed and Politics (first published in France in 1977) is the matrix of Virilio's entire work. Building on the works of Morand, Marinetti, and McLuhan, Virilio presents a vision more radically political than that of any of his French contemporaries: speed as the engine of destruction. Speed and Politics presents a topological account of the entire history of humanity, honing in...(展开全部)

In a team that included some famously heavy drinkers, and players who did not always set the highest standards in their behaviour, Dennis Bergkamp arrived at Arsenal and soon everything changed. Along with the likes of Thierry Henry, Robert Pires and Patrick Vieira, he provided an inspirational cutting edge to the Gunners' play and set them on the way to becoming one of the mos...(展开全部)

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous...(展开全部)

艾蒂安·巴利巴尔（1942— ），法国哲学家，巴黎第十大学荣退教授和加利福尼亚大学欧文分校教授。1960年进入高师，在哲学上和政治上和阿尔都塞有密切合作关系，曾与阿尔都塞合著《阅读〈资本论〉》。代表作有《历史唯物主义五论》、《斯宾诺莎与政治》和《大众恐惧》，以及与伊曼纽尔·华勒斯坦合著的《种族、国家、阶级》。 赵文，文学博士，陕西师范大学文学院副教授，在北京外国语大学外国文学研究所进行博士后研究。从事西方批评理论、文学批评思想史方面的研究工作，同时进行学术文献的翻译及相关研究。代表性译作有阿尔都塞《马基雅维利和我们》（收入《哲学与政治：阿尔都塞读本》）、阿甘本《无目的的手段》等。

A trenchant analysis of Spinoza's major treatises within the context of his contemporary political, religious, and ideological life. With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, "Spinoza e...(展开全部)

When "Moral und Politik was first published in Germany it provoked heated debate both in and out of the classroom. It even prompted Vittorio Hosle's critics to publish a collection of essays that responded to his provocative arguments. Available for the first time in an Engish translation, Morals and Politics, a tour-de-force, is certain to once again generate considerable disc...(展开全部)

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous...(展开全部)

This readable survey of Marxist political theory and key texts by seminal thinkers including Marx, Engels, and Lenin highlights formative concepts and debates within Marxist thought. The argument is presented that a democratic socialism can defend and extend freedoms and thereby remove class distinctions. This introduction considers the nature of class conflict, the proposed de...(展开全部)

When "Moral und Politik was first published in Germany it provoked heated debate both in and out of the classroom. It even prompted Vittorio Hosle's critics to publish a collection of essays that responded to his provocative arguments. Available for the first time in an Engish translation, Morals and Politics, a tour-de-force, is certain to once again generate considerable disc...(展开全部)