Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. It comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all, acclaimed theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working too little (a labor-saving trick) and as working too hard (a strained effort to ...(展开全部)

Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. It comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all, acclaimed theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working too little (a labor-saving trick) and as working too hard (a strained effort to ...(展开全部)

This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. The first part of the book analyses Kant's conception of reflective judgment and its connections with both...(展开全部)

Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Theodor W. Adorno's magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best vi...(展开全部)

Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Theodor W. Adorno's magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best vi...(展开全部)

Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory. Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's posthumous magnum opus and the culmin...(展开全部)

大卫·哈维（David Harvey），当代著名的社会理论家和马克思主义地理学家，美国纽约城市大学研究院人类学杰出教授，曾任约翰·霍普金斯大学地理系教授、牛津大学霍福德·麦金德讲座地理学教授。主要著作有《地理学中的解释》、《社会正义与城市》、《意识与城市经验》、《资本的局限》、《巴黎城记》等。 董慧，华中科技大学马克思主义学院教授、博士生导师，美国纽约州立大学布法罗分校哲学系、美国过程中心、英国剑桥大学丘吉尔学院访问学者。主持国家社科青年项目、教育部一般项目、省教育厅重大项目及校自主创新项目多项。近5年来在《哲学研究》、《哲学动态》、《马克思主义与现实》等刊物上发表论文和译文30多篇，其中多篇被《人大复印资料》、《中国社会科学文摘》转载。

Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.