In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself. He argues, however, that Hegel by no means proclaimed the "death of art" (as many s...(展开全部)

"The name: What does one call thus? What does one understand under the name of name? And what occurs when one gies a name? What does one give then? One does not offer a thing, one delivers nothing, and still something comes to be, which comes down to giving that which one does not have, as Plotinus said of the Good. What happens, above all, when it is necessary to sur-name, ren...(展开全部)

Encompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear unrelated to one another. In truth, Giorgio Agamben's latest book is a mosaic of his most pressing concerns. Take a step backward after reading it from cover to cover, and a world of secret affinities between the chapters slowly comes into focus. Take another step back, and it beco...(展开全部)

Encompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear unrelated to one another. In truth, Giorgio Agamben's latest book is a mosaic of his most pressing concerns. Take a step backward after reading it from cover to cover, and a world of secret affinities between the chapters slowly comes into focus. Take another step back, and it beco...(展开全部)

Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies represents the ninth and final volume in this twenty-year undertaking, breaking consi...(展开全部)

Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies represents the ninth and final volume in this twenty-year undertaking, breaking consi...(展开全部)

我很喜欢普鲁斯特，但我更喜欢穆齐尔。——玛格丽特•杜拉斯 尼采使哲学与小说接近，穆齐尔使小说与哲学接近。——米兰•昆德拉 罗伯特•穆齐尔（1880-1942），奥地利作家，二十世纪最重要的德语文学大师之一，与卡夫卡、普鲁斯特、乔伊斯并列为二十世纪最重要的伟大作家。代表作有长篇小说《没有个性的人》（未完成）、《学生托乐思的迷惘》，短篇小说集《三个女人》，散文集《在世遗作》等。 穆齐尔早年大学工科毕业，后又获得哲学博士学位，是一位不折不扣的具有高度人文和科学素养的作家。作为现代的语文学的拓荒者，他的创作在内容上富于深刻的哲思和冷静的科学精神，在形式上则表现为不拘一格地突破传统和大胆尝试。

A Japanese manga legend's autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first full-length work by the great Yoshiharu Tsuge available in the English language. Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of comics' most celebrated and influential artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book ever to...(展开全部)

我很喜欢普鲁斯特，但我更喜欢穆齐尔。——玛格丽特•杜拉斯 尼采使哲学与小说接近，穆齐尔使小说与哲学接近。——米兰•昆德拉 罗伯特•穆齐尔（1880-1942），奥地利作家，二十世纪最重要的德语文学大师之一，与卡夫卡、普鲁斯特、乔伊斯并列为二十世纪最重要的伟大作家。代表作有长篇小说《没有个性的人》（未完成）、《学生托乐思的迷惘》，短篇小说集《三个女人》，散文集《在世遗作》等。 穆齐尔早年大学工科毕业，后又获得哲学博士学位，是一位不折不扣的具有高度人文和科学素养的作家。作为现代的语文学的拓荒者，他的创作在内容上富于深刻的哲思和冷静的科学精神，在形式上则表现为不拘一格地突破传统和大胆尝试。

"Acting Out " is the first appearance in English of two short books published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In "How I Became a Philosopher," he outlines his transformation during a five-year period of incarceration for armed robbery. Isolated from what had been his world, Stiegler began to conduct a kind of experiment in phenomenological research. Inspired by the Greek stoic Epi...(展开全部)