As we live our lives, we make decisions that shape our future selves and circumstances. When making such choices, such as whether to start a family, or which career to pursue, we often try to assess our options by imagining what different futures would be like. This book argues that, for choices involving dramatically new, life-changing experiences, we are confronted by the bru...(展开全部)

This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created - the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show - and it t...(展开全部)

乔治·巴塔耶（1897—1962），法国思想家、作家。《内在经验》（1943）是其代表作，也是阐释其思想缘起和方法的关键作品。与同时代法国知识分子一样，巴塔耶亲历两次大战，在幻灭中不断反思欧洲社会矛盾与启蒙传统。循着尼采的轨迹，巴塔耶试图从经验和直觉出发探讨精神主体如困兽般的处境及超越界限的可能，其思想核心仍是对笛卡尔式理性主义的批判，而写作风格是解构式的，借用冥想与诗，撕开层层意指，着力挖掘语言本身的潜在力量。巴塔耶将此书列为其“非神学”概要的第一部。“非神学”并非“反神学”，而是以类似宗教神秘主义的方式探寻一种无上帝的极限。“内在经验”将生命主体和认知客体在最炽热的状态中融合，在一种语言不能限定其界限的未知中，通过迷狂探索精神的极端状态（如在死亡、色情、极苦中所达到的状态，非语言或非逻辑所达到的交流）。

乔治·巴塔耶（1897—1962），法国思想家、作家。《内在经验》（1943）是其代表作，也是阐释其思想缘起和方法的关键作品。与同时代法国知识分子一样，巴塔耶亲历两次大战，在幻灭中不断反思欧洲社会矛盾与启蒙传统。循着尼采的轨迹，巴塔耶试图从经验和直觉出发探讨精神主体如困兽般的处境及超越界限的可能，其思想核心仍是对笛卡尔式理性主义的批判，而写作风格是解构式的，借用冥想与诗，撕开层层意指，着力挖掘语言本身的潜在力量。巴塔耶将此书列为其“非神学”概要的第一部。“非神学”并非“反神学”，而是以类似宗教神秘主义的方式探寻一种无上帝的极限。“内在经验”将生命主体和认知客体在最炽热的状态中融合，在一种语言不能限定其界限的未知中，通过迷狂探索精神的极端状态（如在死亡、色情、极苦中所达到的状态，非语言或非逻辑所达到的交流）。

Book Description With Experience Design, Nathan Shedroff has designed and written a book for those in the digital and related design professions, especially those creating online and interactive media who are looking for core inspiration and meaning in their work. This is a book directly at the intersection of today's design disciplines - interaction design, information design,...(展开全部)

Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno—affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument—developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s. Miriam Bratu Hansen brings to life an impr...(展开全部)

Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.

Why are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? In this book, the author argues that the past originates from an experience of rupture separating past and present. Think of the radical rupture with Europe's past that was effected by the French and the Industrial Revolutions. Sublime Historical Experience investigates how...(展开全部)