关于作者 贝尔纳•斯蒂格勒，（1952—2020）当代法国著名哲学家，曾任法国蓬皮杜中心创新与研究所（IRI）主任，法国国立视听研究院（INA）、法国声学与音乐协调研究所（IRCAM）主任，蓬皮杜中心文化发展部主任。其主要代表作有《技术与时间》（1994—2001）、《象征的贫困》（2004—2005）、《怀疑和失信》（2004—2006）、《构成欧洲》（2005）、《新政治经济学批判》（2009）等。 关于译者 张新木，江苏高淳人，南京大学二级教授、博士生导师，文科学术委员，政府特殊津贴专家，中国法国文学研究会副会长。曾任南京大学外国语学院副院长、中国驻法国大使馆一等秘书。2006年获法国政府棕榈教育勋章(骑士)， 2008年获江苏省第三届紫金文学奖翻译奖。研究领域为语言学、符号学与法国文学。出版译著《巴黎圣母院》《游荡的影子》《论诱惑》《模糊性的...(展开全部)

In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age. Stiegler argues that our epoch is characterized by the seizure of the symbolic by industrial technology, where aesthetics has become both theatre and weapon in an economic war. This has r...(展开全部)

The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science-the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to his experience.

The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science-the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to this experience. "These three volumes alone (apar...(展开全部)

Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in twentieth-century philosophy. A great liberal humanist, his multi-faceted work spans the history of philosophy, the philosophy of science, intellectual history, aesthetics, epistemology, the study of language and myth, and more. Cassirer’s thought also anticipates the renewed interest in the origins of analytic and continental philosoph...(展开全部)

How does technology advance? How can we best assimilate innovation? These questions and others are considered by experts on the theories and applications of technological innovations. Considering subjects as diverse as the diffusion of new technologies and their industrial applications, governmental policies, and manifestations of innovation in our institutions, history, and en...(展开全部)

The fourth edition contains seven new sections with chapters on General Relativity, Gravitational Waves and Relativistic Cosmology. The text has been thoroughly revised and additional problems inserted. The Complete course of Theoretical Physics by Landau and Lifshitz, recognized as two of the world's outstanding physicists, is published in full by Butterworth-Heinemann. It com...(展开全部)

These two volumes provide a translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. They are intended to replace the only reasonably comprehensive selection of his works in English, by Haldane and Ross, first published in 1911. All the works included in that edition are translated here, together with a number of additional texts ...(展开全部)

At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-one where the four fields of anthropology are synthesized to address the multidimensionality of the effects to a community’s social structures and relationship to the environment. Using a variety of natural and technological disast...(展开全部)