The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling s Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the beginning of the world, of the passage from...(展开全部)

The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling s Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the beginning of the world, of the passage from...(展开全部)

This collection of essays examines various aspects of the Roman Republic and its constituent groups of citizens, and discusses the nature and significance of the revolution that converted it into a monarchy. Professor Brunt's view is that the Republic was not a mere oligarchy, and that popular elements and conceptions of freedom were more important than is commonly supposed. Ri...(展开全部)

Felipe and Iquela, two young friends living in modern day Santiago, are plagued by the legacy of Chile’s dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela’s childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents’ violen...(展开全部)

Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching ...(展开全部)

斯拉沃热·齐泽克 ，斯洛文尼亚共和国卢布尔雅那大学社会学研究所资深教授，美欧众多大学及研究机构客座教授，欧陆哲学家和批判理论家。自称“还算合格的共产主义者”和“激进左翼分子” 。深受黑格尔主义、马克思主义和拉康精神分析理论影响，擅长以通俗文化产品解读拉康的精神分析理论，并以拉康精神分析理论、黑格尔哲学和马克思主义政治经济学解析最新的政治、社会及文化现象。1989 年出版《意识形态的崇高客体》后，迅速在全世界产生了广泛的影响。他也被称为 “世界上最著名的公共知识分子之一” 和 “欧洲青年知识分子先锋的偶像” 。

Why I Am Not a Christian is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant. If religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought ...(展开全部)