"If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet."-from the Introduction In Un...(展开全部)

吉奥乔·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）（1942～）意大利著名政治哲学家、思想家；任欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授、意大利维罗拉大学美学教授、巴黎国际哲学学院哲学教授，并在德国杜塞尔多夫市海涅大学以及美国多所大学任客座教授，包括加州大学伯克利分校、圣克鲁斯分校、西北大学等。重要著作有《未来共同体》（The Coming community，1993年）《牲人：主权与赤裸生命》（Homo Sacer：Sovereign Power and Bare Life，1998年）、《例外状态》（State of Exception，2005年）等。阿甘本在欧陆哲学传统和人文历史语境中，在对未来共同体的想象性建构中，展开生命、政治、文学、艺术和宗教领域的全面探讨。玄妙深奥的语言风格、融会贯通的思想体系、切实深刻的现世关注，使他成为当今最...(展开全部)

吉奥乔·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）（1942～）意大利著名政治哲学家、思想家；任欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授、意大利维罗拉大学美学教授、巴黎国际哲学学院哲学教授，并在德国杜塞尔多夫市海涅大学以及美国多所大学任客座教授，包括加州大学伯克利分校、圣克鲁斯分校、西北大学等。重要著作有《未来共同体》（The Coming community，1993年）《牲人：主权与赤裸生命》（Homo Sacer：Sovereign Power and Bare Life，1998年）、《例外状态》（State of Exception，2005年）等。阿甘本在欧陆哲学传统和人文历史语境中，在对未来共同体的想象性建构中，展开生命、政治、文学、艺术和宗教领域的全面探讨。玄妙深奥的语言风格、融会贯通的思想体系、切实深刻的现世关注，使他成为当今最...(展开全部)

Iris Chang made headlines in 1997 with the publication of The Rape of Nanking-a meticulously researched and brilliantly rendered examination of the sacking of that great city by the Japanese during World War II. Many readers of The Rape of Nanking responded to its themes of the fight for justice and the assertion of cultural identity-themes Chang expands upon in her new book. C...(展开全部)

How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works, the destruction of experience no longer...(展开全部)

How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works, the destruction of experience no longer...(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)

Book Description "No one has done more to keep alive the fundamental ideals of liberal civilization." 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　-- Morris R. Cohen Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after D...(展开全部)

This book offers a cultural history of modern China by looking at the tension between memory and history. Mainstream books on China tend to focus on the hard aspects of economics, government, politics, or international relations. This book takes a humanistic look at modern changes and examines how Chinese intellectuals and artists experienced trauma, social upheavals, and trans...(展开全部)