In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts. In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literar...(展开全部)

"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "...(展开全部)

Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting, and much more. He is as compelling and insightful when musing on riddles or children's books as he is when dealing with symbolic logic or epistemology.

列夫·达维多维奇·朗道(1908—1968)理论物理学家、苏联科学院院士、诺贝尔物理学奖获得者。1908年1月22日生于今阿塞拜疆共和国的首都巴库，父母是工程师和医生。朗道19岁从列宁格勒大学物理系毕业后在列宁格勒物理技术研究所开始学术生涯。1929—1931年赴德国、瑞士、荷兰、英国、比利时、丹麦等国家进修，特别是在哥本哈根，曾受益于玻尔的指引。1932—1937年，朗道在哈尔科夫担任乌克兰物理技术研究所理论部主任。从1937年起在莫斯科担任苏联科学院物理问题研究所理论部主任。

The second part of 'Statistical Physics' deals with the quantum theory of the condensed state of matter. This volume is essentially an entirely new book, based on the large amount of new material which has become available in statistical physics since' Part 1' was published.

The second part of 'Statistical Physics' deals with the quantum theory of the condensed state of matter. This volume is essentially an entirely new book, based on the large amount of new material which has become available in statistical physics since' Part 1' was published.

列夫·达维多维奇·朗道(1908—1968)理论物理学家、苏联科学院院士、诺贝尔物理学奖获得者。1908年1月22日生于今阿塞拜疆共和国的首都巴库，父母是工程师和医生。朗道19岁从列宁格勒大学物理系毕业后在列宁格勒物理技术研究所开始学术生涯。1929—1931年赴德国、瑞士、荷兰、英国、比利时、丹麦等国家进修，特别是在哥本哈根，曾受益于玻尔的指引。1932—1937年，朗道在哈尔科夫担任乌克兰物理技术研究所理论部主任。从1937年起在莫斯科担任苏联科学院物理问题研究所理论部主任。

These two volumes provide a translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. They are intended to replace the only reasonably comprehensive selection of his works in English, by Haldane and Ross, first published in 1911. All the works included in that edition are translated here, together with a number of additional texts ...(展开全部)

The first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume to give access to the themes a...(展开全部)

In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. In 2002, one of anthropology’s—and indeed today’s—most distinctive writers, Michael Taussig, visited Benjamin’s grave in Port Bou. The result is “Walter Benjami...(展开全部)