Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the O...(展开全部)

《痛苦与狂喜：向石而生——米开朗基罗传1》是《痛苦与狂喜：米开朗基罗传》的上部。下部《痛苦与狂喜：众神之巅——米开朗基罗传2》也即将上市，敬请期待。 =============================================================== ◆欧文•斯通作品 《渴望生活：梵高传》姊妹篇 ◆奥斯卡金像奖电影《痛苦与狂喜》原著 ◆附精美彩色插页，原貌呈现米开朗基罗作品 ◆勤奋的人创造世界，勤奋的天才改造世界 ◆每一件作品都足以撑起大师之名 ◆荣耀又孤独的人生，感动全世界敏感的灵魂 ◆要有耐心，上帝是按一个人要承担的重量来创造他的脊梁的 ◆客厅里女人们往来穿梭，谈论着米开朗基罗。——T.S.艾略特 =============================================================...(展开全部)

杰克•康菲尔德（Jack Kornfield，1945—），生长在美国东岸的一个科学及知性家庭。1963年就读于美国新罕布什尔州达特茅斯学院（Dartmouth College），主修亚洲研究，在学期间开始学佛。1967年毕业后，即前往东南亚修学，在阿姜查主持的巴蓬寺出家，也曾经在马哈希法师和佛使比丘座下学习，并追随过西藏喇嘛、禅师、印度教上师。1972年回到美国，还俗。1976年获得临床心理学博士学位，身兼佛学老师和心理治疗师。曾与约瑟夫•戈德斯坦（Joseph Goldstein）在美国马萨诸塞州合作建立“内观禅修社”，并经常在美国、加拿大和世界各地举办密集禅修，所到之处受到热烈欢迎，为美国最受欢迎的内观禅修教师之一。他的七本著作目前译成中文的有三本——《心灵幽径》、《当代南传佛教大师》与这本《狂喜之后》。

In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.

The Kunstkammer was a programmatic display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. These nascent museums reflected the ambitions of such thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and Kepler to unite the forces of nature with art and technology. Bredekamp advances a radical view that the baroque Kunstkammer is also the nucleus of mo...(展开全部)

In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes his most accessible critique yet of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasi...(展开全部)

The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed wi...(展开全部)

At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma.The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into the past, and our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds.The Expressiveness of the Body medi...(展开全部)

At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma.The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into the past, and our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds.The Expressiveness of the Body medi...(展开全部)