From Publishers Weekly About a decade ago, the late Allan Bloom published his immensely successful polemic, The Closing of the American Mind. In it he denounced the erosion of intellectual culture in the U.S., listing Nietzsche as one of the main villains in the story of American decline. Our moral fiber, so the argument goes, has been vitiated by a relativism, skepticism and g...(展开全部)

The definitive work on Lacan's theory of the feminine. With exquisite prose and penetrating insights, Colette Soler shares her theoretical and clinical expertise in this vibrant new text. She spins out seductive explications of Lacan's thought on the controversial question of sexual difference. With the subtlety that these topics deserve, she takes up Lacan's conception of w...(展开全部)

《改变》是一本关于成长和痊愈的具有启发性的案例分析集，每一章都分别探索了对改变极具深远影响的主题。《改变》探索了享受到潜在收益、不切实际的期望、消极的信念、缺乏支持和应对机能等会阻碍我们做出改变；触及底线、创伤、心理治疗、旅行、冒险或顿悟等因素是如何诱发改变的；而压力和恐惧又会使改变变得难以持久；通过找寻更深层次的意义、助人、化解亲密关系中的冲突等才能使改变持久。 本书作者研究改变这一话题35年，他告诉我们如何在充满挫折的人生中，活成自己想要的模样。也许再没有比研究改变的过程更为有趣和有用了，也再没有比弄清楚到底是什么对产生持久的改变起作用更伟大的事业了。

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was an essayist, poet, novelist and philosopher of excess. His philosophy emerges from the aesthetic avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s, when he was associated with the surrealist movement, and has since been explored by the major figures of poststructuralism and postmodernism. His classic works include "The Story of the Eye" and "The Accursed Share."...(展开全部)

For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietzsche represents nothing short of a "catastrophe in the history of language" -- a new evangelist for a linguistics of narcissistic jubilation. Nietzsche offered a philosophical declaration of independence from humility, a meeting-point of sobriety and megalomania that for Sloterdijk has come to define the very project of philosophy. Yet for ...(展开全部)

This brief text assists students in understanding Nietzsche's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series," (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the pre...(展开全部)

This volume gathers Professor Burke's most important essays on the theory and the practice of history. In the first part, the main theme is the way in which concepts borrowed from social and cultural theory may encourage historians to ask new questions about the past or help them to answer old ones. The second part of the author's work is to illustrate some major new trends in ...(展开全部)

In a post-9/11 world, many Americans conflate the mainstream Muslim majority with the beliefs and actions of an extremist minority. But what do the world’s Muslims think about the West, or about democracy, or about extremism itself? Who Speaks for Islam? spotlights this silenced majority. The book is the product of a mammoth six-year study in which the Gallup Organization co...(展开全部)

Spiritual bypassing—the use of spiritual beliefs to avoid dealing with painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs—is so pervasive that it goes largely unnoticed. The spiritual ideals of any tradition, whether Christian commandments or Buddhist precepts, can provide easy justification for practitioners to duck uncomfortable feelings in favor of more seemingly e...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 作者迪安·博内特（Dean Burnett）博士是一名神经科学家，供职于英国卡迪夫大学的心理医学和临床神经科学研究所。他还是一名单口喜剧演员，在《卫报》开设的科学博客——Brain Flapping（大脑夸夸其谈）——在过去的两年里已经收获了超过1,600万的阅读量，并且广受各界人士的赞誉。 ◎ 译者简介 译者朱机，神经生物学博士，科学松鼠会成员，上海科普作协会员。