This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the "word become flesh" is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Both witty and immensely erudite, Jacques Ranciere leads the critical reader through a maze of arrivals ...(展开全部)

This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the "word become flesh" is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Both witty and immensely erudite, Jacques Ranciere leads the critical reader through a maze of arrivals ...(展开全部)

This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the "word become flesh" is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Both witty and immensely erudite, Jacques Ranciere leads the critical reader through a maze of arrivals ...(展开全部)

This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the "word become flesh" is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Both witty and immensely erudite, Jacques Ranciere leads the critical reader through a maze of arrivals ...(展开全部)

In this provocative work, John McCumber asks us to understand Hegel’s system as a new approach to linguistic communication. Hegel, he argues, is concerned with building community and mutual comprehension rather than with completing metaphysics or developing historical critique. According to McCumber’s radial interpretation, Hegel constructs a complex ideal of how we should use ...(展开全部)

新海诚： 著名动画导演，被誉为日本新锐动画大师。二零零二年，凭借几乎独自完成的短篇动画《星之声》赢得人气，之后相继发表了《云之彼岸，约定的地方》《秒速五厘米》《追逐繁星的孩子》《言叶之庭》，在国内外获得较高评价。

'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipulation of language by the powerful, the obligations of individuals to one ano...(展开全部)

Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries. In The Secrets of Words, influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between langua...(展开全部)

新海诚： 著名动画导演，被誉为日本新锐动画大师。二零零二年，凭借几乎独自完成的短篇动画《星之声》赢得人气，之后相继发表了《云之彼岸，约定的地方》《秒速五厘米》《追逐繁星的孩子》《言叶之庭》，在国内外获得较高评价。

"I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them." With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the nove...(展开全部)