We need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and ...(展开全部)

We need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and ...(展开全部)

In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy.</P>...(展开全部)

让-吕克•南希（Jean-Luc Nancy），当代欧洲著名哲学家，斯特拉斯堡大学教授。他的哲学研究推进了当代法国思想，有着深远的影响力。已发表近五十部著作，很多都已被译为德文、英文和意大利文。

Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis.

Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles reader...(展开全部)

斯拉沃热·齐泽克（Slavoj Zizek，1949～），斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那大学社会学研究所资深研究员，欧美众多大学客座教授，大名鼎鼎的欧陆哲学家，魅力四射的演说家，光彩夺目的文化理论家，人称“文化理论界的猫王”、“屹立于人类智力顶峰”的“卢布尔雅那巨人”，“几十年来强大无比的杰出阐释者”，自称“一定意义上的共产主义者”和“激进左翼分子”。他深受黑格尔主义、马克思主义和拉康精神分析理论的影响，擅长以通俗文化产品解读拉康的精神分析理论，并以拉康精神分析理论、黑格尔哲学和马克思主义政治经济学解析最新的社会文化现象。他“把一切纳入自己的研究领域”，颇有“席卷天下，包举宇内”之势，同时“把理论的严密性与阅读的强制性融为一炉”，“是反直觉观察的大师”。

哈尔·克莱蒙特，本名哈里·斯塔布斯，生于美国麻省，曾获哈佛天文学学士学位，二战时入伍，成为一名轰炸机飞行员。退伍后成为中学教师，长期教授科学课程。 克莱蒙特一生共创作了十五部长篇以及大量中短篇小说。1954年，《重力使命》开始在《惊奇科幻》连载，成为他的代表作，该书也是科幻史上硬科幻小说的代表。 克莱蒙特在科幻作家和读者中具有崇高的声望。他是1991年世界科幻大会的主宾，1998年入选科幻/奇幻名人殿，美国科幻奇幻作家协会于1999年星云奖颁奖仪式上授予他科幻大师称号。

For a profit -- and adventure -- Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity itself played strange tricks. He would dare the perils of strange tribes and stranger creatures -- even dicker with those strange aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the disk-shaped planet of...(展开全部)