Techniques of Pleasure is a vivid portrayal of the San Francisco Bay Area's pansexual BDSM (SM) community. Margot Weiss conducted ethnographic research at dungeon play parties and at workshops on bondage, role play, and flogging, and she interviewed more than sixty SM practitioners. She describes a scene devoted to a form of erotic play organized around technique, rules and reg...(展开全部)

What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenic...(展开全部)

米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault，1926—1984），法国哲学家。他以其无比渊博的学识、才华横溢的文笔、惊世骇俗的思想，深刻影响了后现代主义、权力分析与社会理论、新文化史、刑罚史、身体史、性史、女性主义与酷儿理论，以及文学与艺术批评等各种时代思潮。其主要作品有：《古典时代疯狂史》《词与物》《规训与惩罚》《性经验史》（四卷）“法兰西学院演讲系列”等。

This book offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Here Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex as well as on exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women. The book abounds in insights into the differences - and...(展开全部)

The question of the canon has been the subject of debate in academic circles for over fifteen years. "Pleasure and Change" contains two lectures on this important subject by the distinguished literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. In essays that were originally delivered as Tanner Lectures at Berkeley in November of 2001, Kermode reinterprets the question of canon formation in ligh...(展开全部)

In a book that moves between philosophy and history, and with lasting significance for both, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls "historical epistemology." He applies this method to the history of sexuality, with important consequences for our understanding of desire, ...(展开全部)

In a book that moves between philosophy and history, and with lasting significance for both, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls "historical epistemology." He applies this method to the history of sexuality, with important consequences for our understanding of desire, ...(展开全部)

How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can ov...(展开全部)

理查德•费曼 美国物理学家，诺贝尔物理学奖得主。生于1918年，成长于纽约的法罗克维，1942年毕业于普林斯顿大学，拿到了博士学位。二战期间，他是推动原子弹研发的重要人物。战后，费曼在康奈尔大学和加州理工学院任教。1965年，他因在量子电动力学方面的研究荣获诺贝尔物理学奖。除了是物理学家，费曼还是个作家、艺术家，擅长演奏手鼓，还能打开各类保险箱。1988年，费曼辞世。