What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Franci...(展开全部)

Recent years have seen heightened interest in the ritual, juridical, and generallypractical aspects of the Buddhist tradition. The contributions to Rules ofEngagement build on this trend while venturing beyond the established boundariesof discourse in specialized academic disciplines, presenting state-of-the-artresearch on the vinaya in all of its breadth and depth. They do so ...(展开全部)

Rules perform a moral function by restating moral principles in concrete terms, so as to reduce the uncertainty, error, and controversy that result when individuals follow their own unconstrained moral judgment. Although reason dictates that we must follow rules to avoid destructive error and controversy, rules—and hence laws—are imperfect, and reason also dictates that we ough...(展开全部)

Life Form, Amélie Nothomb's nineteenth novel is a smart, singular, surreal novel about personality and philosophy, trauma and healing, solitude and human connection from one of the most widely read and beloved authors working today. One morning, the heroine of this book, a famous author named Amélie Nothomb, receives a letter from a fan, Melvin Mapple, an American soldier stati...(展开全部)

Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it generates billions of dollars in annual revenue; or even because it is watched ...(展开全部)

里德·哈斯廷斯（Reed Hastings） 网飞公司创始人、董事会主席、首席执行官，20《财富》杂志“年度商业人物”，《时代》周刊“全球最具影响力人物”，Hired网站“全球科技业最鼓舞人心的领导者”。1983年获得鲍登学院学士学位，1988年获得斯坦福大学计算机专业硕士学位。在此期间，曾作为和平队成员前往非洲支教。他的第一家公司Pure Software成立于1991年，于1995年上市。在以7.5亿美元出售Pure Software的同年，他联合创立了网飞，并于1999年起担任董事会主席兼首席执行官至今。作为一名杰出的企业家，他对整个娱乐业的发展与变革起到了巨大的推动作用。同时，他还是一位活跃的教育慈善家，担任过包括Dreambox Learning、KIPP和Pahara在内的多家教育机构的董事会成员，并于2020年向为有色人种学生提供高等教...(展开全部)

Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our relationship to the earth, its inhabitants, and its climate. Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, The Calamity Form shines new light on Romantic poetry, identifying a number of rhetorical tropes used by writers to underscore their very failure to...(展开全部)

Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our relationship to the earth, its inhabitants, and its climate. Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, The Calamity Form shines new light on Romantic poetry, identifying a number of rhetorical tropes used by writers to underscore their very failure to...(展开全部)

This classic collection of essays by E.P. Thompson, one of Englands most renowned socialist voices, remains a staple text in the history of Marxist theory. The bulk of the book is dedicated to Thompsons famous polemic against Louis Althusser and what he considers the reductionism and authoritarianism of Althusserian structuralism. In lively and erudite prose, Thompson argues fo...(展开全部)

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