With an introduction by Hubertus von Amelunxen Media philosopher Vilem Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics provided him with new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them. Flusser showed how the transformation o...(展开全部)

作者：(英)马克·德登（Mark Durden），英国作家，艺术家，南威尔士大学创意产业学院摄影系教授。著有《多萝西娅·兰格》（Dorothea Lange，2001，2012），《摄影研究的五十位重要学者》（Fifty Key Writers on Photography ,2012）。合著包括与大卫·坎贝尔(David Campbell)合作的《可变资本》（Variable Capital，2007），与肯·格兰特(Ken Grant)合作的《二次拍摄：基斯·梅得利文献中的肖像照》（Double Take: Portraits From the Keith Medley Archive，2013）等。此外，马克·德登还发表了大量关于摄影与当代艺术的文章。目前，他是艺术家小组“共同文化”(Common Culture)的成员。

In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty's neo pragmatism. Places key writers in their social and political contexts, helping to make their ideas meaningful to students. Shows how these authors...(展开全部)

In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty's neo pragmatism. Places key writers in their social and political contexts, helping to make their ideas meaningful to students. Shows how these authors...(展开全部)

This is a fresh, bold study of the emerging field of Sound Art, informed by the ideas of Adorno, Merleau Ponty and others. "Listening to Noise and Silence" engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original and challenging work, Salome Voegelin immerses the reader in concepts of listening to sound ...(展开全部)

In this work the distinguished physical chemist and philosopher, Michael Polanyi, demonstrates that the scientist's personal participation in his knowledge, in both its discovery and its validation, is an indispensable part of science itself. Even in the exact sciences, "knowing" is an art, of which the skill of the knower, guided by his personal committment and his passionate ...(展开全部)