Profoundly intimate yet immediately giving onto distant spaces, both an “organ of fear” and an echo chamber of anticipated pleasures, an uncontrollable flow subject to unconscious selection and augmentation, the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing has meant that sound has rarely received the same philosophical attention as the visual. In The Order of Sounds, F...(展开全部)

The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in "The Sounds of Poetry." "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing." As ...(展开全部)

Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to the opposite sex; Nanook, a Greenlander who once worked as a sushi chef; Nora, the German woman who loves Nanook but is equally concerned with social justice and the environment; ...(展开全部)

著：多和田　葉子（タワダ　ヨウコ） 多和田葉子（たわだ・ようこ） 小説家、詩人。1960年東京都生まれ。早稲田大学第一文学部卒業。ハンブルク大学大学院修士課程修了。文学博士(チューリッヒ大学)。1982年よりドイツに在住し、日本語とドイツ語で作品を手がける。1991年『かかとを失くして』で群像新人文学賞、1993年『犬婿入り』で芥川賞、2000年『ヒナギクのお茶の場合』で泉鏡花文学賞、2002年『球形時間』でBunkamuraドゥマゴ文学賞、2003年『容疑者の夜行列車』で伊藤整文学賞、谷崎潤一郎賞、2005年にゲーテ・メダル、2009年に早稲田大学坪内逍遙大賞、2011年『尼僧とキューピッドの弓』で紫式部文学賞、『雪の練習生』で野間文芸賞、2013年『雲をつかむ話』で読売文学賞、芸術選奨文部科学大臣賞を受賞。2016年にドイツのクライスト賞を日本人...(展开全部)

Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to the opposite sex; Nanook, a Greenlander who once worked as a sushi chef; Nora, the German woman who loves Nanook but is equally concerned with social justice and the environment; ...(展开全部)

著：多和田　葉子（タワダ　ヨウコ） 多和田葉子（たわだ・ようこ） 小説家、詩人。1960年東京都生まれ。早稲田大学第一文学部卒業。ハンブルク大学大学院修士課程修了。文学博士(チューリッヒ大学)。1982年よりドイツに在住し、日本語とドイツ語で作品を手がける。1991年『かかとを失くして』で群像新人文学賞、1993年『犬婿入り』で芥川賞、2000年『ヒナギクのお茶の場合』で泉鏡花文学賞、2002年『球形時間』でBunkamuraドゥマゴ文学賞、2003年『容疑者の夜行列車』で伊藤整文学賞、谷崎潤一郎賞、2005年にゲーテ・メダル、2009年に早稲田大学坪内逍遙大賞、2011年『尼僧とキューピッドの弓』で紫式部文学賞、『雪の練習生』で野間文芸賞、2013年『雲をつかむ話』で読売文学賞、芸術選奨文部科学大臣賞を受賞。2016年にドイツのクライスト賞を日本人...(展开全部)

This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. The scope of the book is truly global, with data drawn from nearly 400 languages, many of them investig...(展开全部)

The question Jon Elster addresses in this challenging book is what binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war. He analyses two concepts of social order: stable, predictable patterns of behaviour, and co-operative behaviour. The book examines various aspects of collective action and bargaining from the perspective of rational-choice theory ...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to “flow”? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philos...(展开全部)

ime is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a diffe...(展开全部)