In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with a bold and rigorous collection of essays that look at voice as both object of ...(展开全部)

Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to emanate, resisting the Sirens' song of fascination with the voice, concentrating on "the voice and nothing more": this is the diffic...(展开全部)

Here is the final collection of articles and speeches by the bestselling and world-renowned novelist, essayist, and philosopher.

安・兰德（Ayn Rand，1905一1982）全世界有史以来最畅销的作家之一，是20世纪美国最为知名、小说和论著卖出册数最多的作家、思想家和公共知识分子之一。 安・兰德最具哲学挑战意义的哲理小说《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》（又名《地球的震栗》）（AtlasShrugged）被评为“继圣经之后对当代美国人影响最大的一本书”。此外，她还著有长篇小说《生而为人》（We the Living）、《赞歌》（Anthem）和《源泉》（The Fountainhead）。 安・兰德独特的哲学――“客观主义”在全世界都具有广泛而深人的影响。她的哲学精神在她生前由以下四本代表性论著阐明：《客观主义认识论概论》（Introduction to ObjectivistEpistemology）、《致新知识分子》（For the NewIntellectual）、《自私的美德》（T...(展开全部)

In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. These pieces, collected here, reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity.

Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries and how technology may—or may not—be changing how we think about the...(展开全部)

Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries and how technology may—or may not—be changing how we think about the...(展开全部)

In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives originating in scie...(展开全部)

These essays by the author of The Political Economy of Growth and co-author of Monopoly Capital cover the working range of a strong and original mind. They are as diverse as his well-known discussion of Marxism and psychoanalysis, and his expert handling of the politics and economics of development.

These essays by the author of The Political Economy of Growth and co-author of Monopoly Capital cover the working range of a strong and original mind. They are as diverse as his well-known discussion of Marxism and psychoanalysis, and his expert handling of the politics and economics of development. The five parts of the book contain six articles on Marxism, three on economic p...(展开全部)