In this study the author challenges both cognitivist-historicist accounts of cinema and conventional film-theory. Arguing that the reading of Lacan operative in the 1970s and 1980s was particularly reductive, he asserts that there is "another Lacan" in reference to whom film theory, cultural studies and critical thought as such can be transformed and revitalized. He supports th...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔治•巴塔耶（Georges Bataille，1897—1962），法国哲学家、评论家、小说家，博学多识，思想庞杂，其作品涉及哲学、伦理学、神学、文学、经济学等诸多领域。巴塔耶的思想上承尼采、克尔凯郭尔、萨德的批判倾向，下启20世纪后期法国诸家思潮，对福柯、德里达、波德里亚等人的影响尤深，颇具反叛精神，被誉为“后现代思想策源地之一”。 ======================= 【译者简介】 尉光吉 中国人民大学哲学博士，南京大学艺术学院助理研究员，主要研究西方文艺理论和法国哲学。译有布朗肖《无尽的谈话》和齐泽克《享受你的症状》等作品。

【作者简介】 乔治•巴塔耶（Georges Bataille，1897—1962），法国哲学家、评论家、小说家，博学多识，思想庞杂，其作品涉及哲学、伦理学、神学、文学、经济学等诸多领域。巴塔耶的思想上承尼采、克尔凯郭尔、萨德的批判倾向，下启20世纪后期法国诸家思潮，对福柯、德里达、波德里亚等人的影响尤深，颇具反叛精神，被誉为“后现代思想策源地之一”。 ======================= 【译者简介】 尉光吉 中国人民大学哲学博士，南京大学艺术学院助理研究员，主要研究西方文艺理论和法国哲学。译有布朗肖《无尽的谈话》和齐泽克《享受你的症状》等作品。

"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known by the title of "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, of which "The Debt of Tears" is the fourth, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the author's own family). The two main characte...(展开全部)

A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world’s leading financial writers, The Price of Time explains our current global financial position and how we got here In the beginning was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia people have been borrowing and lending at interest. The practice wasn’t always popular—in the ...(展开全部)

Capitalism and interest are inseparable, yet over the centuries whenever interest rates have collapsed and money was too easy, financial markets have become unstable. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, interest rates have sunk lower than at any time in the five millennia since they were first recorded. In an unprecedented move, negative interest rates were in...(展开全部)

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer tha...(展开全部)

We surround ourselves with material things that are invested with memories but can only stand for what we have lost. Physical objects--such as one's own body--situate and define us; yet at the same time they are fundamentally indifferent to us. The melancholy of this rift is a rich source of inspiration for artists. Peter Schwenger deftly weaves together philosophical and psych...(展开全部)