Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful, or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidde...(展开全部)

Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humor that has ever been produced. Jokes, he argues, provide immense pleasure by allowing us to express many of our deepest sexual, aggressive and cynical thoughts and feelings which would otherwise...(展开全部)

In the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first release, Winch’s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy was a landmark exploration of the social sciences, written at a time when that field was still young and had not yet joined the Humanities and the Natural Sciences as the third great do...(展开全部)

In the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first release, Winch’s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy was a landmark exploration of the social sciences, written at a time when that field was still young and had not yet joined the Humanities and the Natural Sciences as the third great do...(展开全部)

The problems dealt with in The Idea of a Social Science are philosophical. It is an attempt to place the social science, considered as a single group, on the intellectual map, with special attention to the relations of the discipline to philosophy on the one hand and the natural sciences on the other. The author holds that the relation between the social sciences and philo...(展开全部)

It was discovered recently that Nevanlinna theory and Diophantine approximation bear striking similarities and connections. This book provides an introduction to both Nevanlinna theory and Diophantine approximation, with emphasis on the analogy between these two subjects.Each chapter is divided into part A and part B. Part A deals with Nevanlinna theory and part B covers Diopha...(展开全部)

米兰·昆德拉，小说家，出生于捷克斯洛伐克布尔诺；自1975年起，在法国定居。长篇小说《玩笑》、《生活在别处》、《告别圆舞曲》、《笑玩录》、《不能承受的生命之轻》和《不朽》，以及短篇小说集《好笑的爱》，原作以捷克文写成。最近出版的长篇小说《慢》、《身份》和《无知》，还有随笔集《小说的艺术》和《被背叛的遗嘱》，原作以法文写成。《雅克和他的主人》，系作者戏剧代表作。

米兰·昆德拉，小说家，出生于捷克斯洛伐克布尔诺；自1975年起，在法国定居。长篇小说《玩笑》、《生活在别处》、《告别圆舞曲》、《笑玩录》、《不能承受的生命之轻》和《不朽》，以及短篇小说集《好笑的爱》，原作以捷克文写成。最近出版的长篇小说《慢》、《身份》和《无知》，还有随笔集《小说的艺术》和《被背叛的遗嘱》，原作以法文写成。《雅克和他的主人》，系作者戏剧代表作。

A sociological investigation of the French university and educational system during the 1960s examines the ways traditional class distinctions and cultural inequalities are reinforced.

A sociological investigation of the French university and educational system during the 1960s examines the ways traditional class distinctions and cultural inequalities are reinforced.