结构主义及解构主义的时代，法国知识界激情燃烧的岁月。法国知识分子经历了痛苦的磨难。他们曾经喜怒哀乐，他们曾经悲欢离合，他们曾为卑迪斯科者鸣冤叫屈，他们曾为刽子手高唱赞歌……总之是有血有肉的人生，总之是曲折动人的感情，总之是惊涛骇浪的思想，总之是那个时代特有的强烈共鸣。思想的来龙去脉，人物的恩恩怨怨，思潮的跌宕起伏，道德路的波折坎河……尽在其中矣，他们最终创造一个崭新的知识王国，重绘了人类的知识地图，改变了世界的知识走向，成为20世界最具冲击力的思想之源。

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Ziand#382;ek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Ziand#382;ek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Ziand#382;ek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary terrorists. Violence, Ziand#382;ek states, takes three forms--subjective (crime, terror), objective (racism, hate-speech, discrimination), and systemic (the catastrophic effects of economic and political systems)--and often one form of violence blunts our ability to see the others, raising complicated questions. Does the advent of capitalism and, indeed, civilization cause more violence than it prevents? Is there violence in the simple idea of "the neighbour"? And could the appropriate form of action against violence today simply be to contemplate, to think? Beginning with these and other equally contemplative questions, Ziand#382;ek discusses the inherent violence of globalization, capitalism, fundamentalism, and language, in a work that will confirm his standing as one of our most erudite and incendiary modern thinkers.

Thirty years since its first publication in English, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space one of the most appealing and lyrical explorations of home. Bachelard takes us on a journey, from cellar to attic, to show how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories, and dreams.

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. “Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times.” The Nation

In this new book, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics. An excellent introduction to one of the most engaging and controversial cultural theorists writing today. Žižek is a Slovenian sociologist who trained as a Lacanian and uses Lacan to analyse popular culture and politics. Illustrates the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multi-culturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics. Provides a unique glimpse of Žižek’s humour and character and offers new material and fresh perspectives which will be of interest to followers of Žižek’s writings.

This lecture, given by Michel Foucault at the College de France, launches an inquiry into the notion of parresia and continues his rereading of ancient philosophy. Through the study of this notion of truth-telling, of speaking out freely, Foucault re-examines Greek citizenship, showing how the courage of the truth forms the forgotten ethical basis of Athenian democracy. The figure of the philosopher king, the condemnation of writing, and Socrates' rejection of political involvement are some of the many topics of ancient philosophy revisited here.

Foucault's Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity tells the story of how art shed the tasks with which it had traditionally been charged in order to become modern. Joseph J. Tanke offers the first complete examination of Michel Foucaults reflections on visual art, tracing his thought as it engages with the work of visual artists from the seventeenth century to the contemporary period. The book offers a concise and accessible introduction to Foucaults frequently anthologized, but rarely understood, analyses of Diego Velzquezs Las Meninas and Ren Magrittes Ceci nest pas une pipe. On the basis of unpublished lecture courses and several un-translated analyses of visual art, Tanke reveals the uniquely genealogical character of Foucaults writings on visual culture, allowing for new readings of his major texts in the context of contemporary Continental philosophy, aesthetic and cultural theory. Ultimately Tanke demonstrates how Foucault provides philosophy and contemporary criticism with the means for determining a conception of modern art.

The influential work of speculative biology—and a key document in posthumanist studies—now available in a new, accurate English translation In A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species, build and inhabit. Uexküll’s concept of the umwelt holds new possibilities for the terms of animality, life, and the framework of biopolitics. “Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject?” With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species, build and inhabit. This concept of the umwelt has become enormously important within posthumanist philosophy, influencing such figures as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Guattari, and, most recently, Giorgio Agamben, who has called Uexküll “a high point of modern antihumanism.” A key document in the genealogy of posthumanist thought, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans advances Uexküll’s revolutionary belief that nonhuman perceptions must be accounted for in any biology worth its name; it also contains his arguments against natural selection as an adequate explanation for the present orientation of a species’ morphology and behavior. A Theory of Meaning extends his thinking on the umwelt, while also identifying an overarching and perceptible unity in nature. Those coming to Uexküll’s work for the first time will find that his concept of the umwelt holds new possibilities for the terms of animality, life, and the framework of biopolitics.

《活的隐喻》是法国著名哲学家保罗·利科继《意志哲学》和《历史与真理》之后的第三部主要著作，是关于隐喻的专著。全书由八篇论文组成，分别阐述了隐喻与符号学、修辞学、语义学、诗学和诠释学的关系与理论。作者系统介绍了从古希腊的亚里士多德、柏拉图以及西方近代哲学家海德格尔、维特根斯坦一直到现代语言学家对隐喻的看法，并从词汇、句子等不同角度对隐喻这一千古之谜作了深入细致的探讨。

John L. Austin" was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic "How to Do Things with Words." For this second edition, the editors have returned to Austin's original lecture notes, amending the printed text where it seemed necessary. Students will find the new text clearer, and, at the same time, more faithful to the actual lectures. An appendix contains literal transcriptions of a number of marginal notes made by Austin but not included in the text. Comparison of the text with these annotations provides new dimensions to the study of Austin's work.

《善的研究》是日本现代资产阶级唯心主义哲学家西田几多郎（1870-1945）的处女作，内容共分四编：一、纯粹经验；二、实在；三、善；四、宗教。“纯粹经验”与“实在”两编论述了“两田哲学”的基本观点，“善”和“宗教”两编则是这个基本观点在伦理学和宗教上的应用。 《善的研究》从“纯粹经验”出发，主张真正的实在是一种“主客合一”、“物我相忘”的境界，企图建立一条既非唯心，也非唯物的哲学上的中间道路，实际上则是一种以东方佛教思想为基础，以西方哲学思想为材料的资产阶级唯心主义哲学。

Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality-Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr. Kinsey; and the subjects he covers include prostitution, mythical ecstasy, cruelty, and organized war. Investigating desire prior to and extending beyond the realm of sexuality, he argues that eroticism is "a psychological quest not alien to death.

This collection of original essays by preeminent interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics, and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy and on arguments for and against the view that contemporary life and thought are distinctively "ocularcentric." The authors examine these ideas in the context of the history of philosophy and consider the character of visual discourse in the writings of Plato, Descartes, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Benjamin, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, and Habermas. With essays on television, the visual arts, and feminism, the book will interest readers in cultural studies, gender studies, and art history as well as philosophers.

Long considered 'the noblest of the senses', vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle and surveillance. Martin Jay turns to this discourse surrounding vision and explores its often contradictory implications in the work of such influential figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. From consideration of French Impressionism to analysis of Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes' writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded accounts of thinkers and ideas widely known for their difficulty. His book examines the myriad links between the interrogation of vision and the pervasive antihumanist, antimodernist, and counter-enlightenment tenor of much recent French thought. Refusing, however, to defend the dominant visual order, he calls instead for a plurality of 'scopic regimes'. Certain to generate controversy and discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences, "Downcast Eyes" will consolidate Jay's reputation as one of today's premier cultural and intellectual historians.

Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential and revolutionary philosophers of the 20th century. Francis Bacon is widely regarded as one of the most radical painters of the 20th century. This title presents a deep engagement with Bacon's work and the nature of art. Deleuze analyses the distinctive innovations that came to mark Bacon's style: the isolation of the figure, the violent deformations of the flesh, the complex use of colour, the method of chance, and the use of the triptych form. Along the way, Deleuze introduces a number of his own famous concepts, such as the "body without organs" and the "diagram", and contrasts his own approach to painting with that of both the phenomenological and the art historical traditions. Deleuze links Bacon's work to Cezanne's notion of a "logic" of sensation, which reaches its summit in colour and the "colouring sensation". Investigating this logic, Deleuze explores Bacon's crucial relation to past painters such as Velasquez, Cezanne and Soutine, as well as Bacon's rejection of expressionism and abstract painting.

Kojin Karatani's Transcritique introduces a startlingly new dimension to Immanuel Kant's transcendental critique by using Kant to read Karl Marx and Marx to read Kant. In a direct challenge to standard academic approaches to both thinkers, Karatani's transcritical readings discover the ethical roots of socialism in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and a Kantian critique of money in Marx's Capital.Karatani reads Kant as a philosopher who sought to wrest metaphysics from the discredited realm of theoretical dogma in order to restore it to its proper place in the sphere of ethics and praxis. With this as his own critical model, he then presents a reading of Marx that attempts to liberate Marxism from longstanding Marxist and socialist presuppositions in order to locate a solid theoretical basis for a positive activism capable of gradually superseding the trinity of Capital-Nation-State.

The notion of 'the human' is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term 'posthuman' provides an alternative. The philosophical landscape which has developed as a response to the crisis of the human, includes several movements, such as: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism and Object Oriented Ontology. This book explains the similarities and differences between these currents and offers a detailed examination of a number of topics that fall under the “posthuman” umbrella, including the anthropocene, artificial intelligence and the deconstruction of the human. Francesca Ferrando affords particular focus to Philosophical Posthumanism, defined as a philosophy of mediation which addresses the meaning of humanity not in separation, but in relation to technology and ecology. The posthuman shift thus emerges in the global call for social change, responsible science and multispecies coexistence.

在这本谈话录中，以赛亚·伯林讲述了他的思想及政治哲学的发展历程，其中穿插着许多个人回忆。他谈到了马克思、维柯、赫尔德、赫尔岑等令他着迷并给予他深刻影响的思想家，也谈到了他的诸多挚友，如诺埃尔·安南、W.H.奥登、大卫·塞西尔、阿尔弗雷德·布伦德尔、斯蒂芬·斯彭 德，尤其是他与阿赫马托娃和帕斯捷尔纳克的颇富传奇色彩的交往。从伯林精彩纷呈的谈话中，读者可以分享他对自由主义与宽容的信念，可以分享他对音乐与文学的激情，也可以对他的生活与个性获得一种独特的认知。

- 编辑推荐 - ★如何将主体从意愿和行动的枷锁中解放出来？如何让人类的行动从目的—手段的循环中挣脱出来？ ★“神圣人”系列之外，意大利当代具有世界影响力的思想家吉奥乔·阿甘本至为重要的一部著作。 ★运用哲学、历史语法学和法学这三套理论工具，阿甘本悉心处理了其分析理路中“行动”、“过错”和“姿势”这三大范畴。 ★阿甘本在书中探索了道德性与守法性之间的构成性关联，并对西方的道德和法律结构发起了批判。 ★本书不仅统合了阿甘本思想的各个重要主题，还向我们展示了他的理论视野朝着东方哲学（佛教哲学）的全新转向。 - 内容简介 - 全书分四章。 在第一章“案件与过错”中，阿甘本从历史语文学分析出发，揭示了这两个词模糊的词源，以及它们在概念层面的亲缘关系。他指出，这两个概念是法律建筑的前提，但构成法律领域的，是“罪”这一概念。由此，他过渡到卡尔·施密特的相关理论，并进一步探讨了法学中“制裁”这一概念。 在第二章“crimen与karman”中，阿甘本考察了常与“案件”、“过错”联系在一起的拉丁语crimen和梵语karman的关系。后者即“业”，在佛教中指的是行动背后的意愿。他认为，“karman指的就是crimen，也就是说，存在一种可以归责并产生后果的行动”。承认这一点，便可引向意愿概念的诞生。 在第三章“意愿的困局”中，阿甘本阐述了古代世界经由亚里士多德到基督教世界的转变史，这也是意愿概念的诞生史。他指出，与佛教立场类似，柏拉图想要在“是”和“思索”之中寻找人的善，亚里士多德的答案则是“成为”和“行动”。这组对立概念是本章的论述重点。 意愿是将行动固定在主体上的哲学装置，使主体为其行为担责，也就变成了可归责的、可制裁的。正因为此，我们才有必要“超越行动”——这正是第四章的标题。在最后一章中，阿甘本思考了“善”与“行动”在亚里士多德那里的意义。他指出，实现善的必要性正是亚里士多德的遗产。 全书的落脚点是对姿势的分析。除了佛教学说，阿甘本关于姿势的理论探索还指向了瓦尔特·本雅明的《暴力批判》。他对该文本的兴趣在于，如何将人类的行动从目的—手段的循环中解脱出来。而这也是他在作为本书前言的《姿势的本体论与政治学》一文中重点加以考量的。 在前言中，阿甘本总结道：“我试图在书中说明，行动、原因和过错的概念之间存在构成性的关系。我提出的假设是，这三个概念共同构成了将人的行为嵌入法律的领域并让其变得‘有过错’的装置（dispositivo）。这也就意味着，这些行为可以通过各种形式归责给某个主体。人的行为是crimen。这个拉丁语单词可能和梵语中的karman——也就是我们所说的‘业’——有亲缘关系，其原始含义指的是主体的行动与其后果之间无法摆脱的联结。我们早已习惯于这样的法律与道德观念，即人必须回应自己的行动。这似乎理所当然、无可置疑。然而，切不可忘记，20世纪至为伟大的神学家弗朗茨·卡夫卡的全部写作，无非是固执、近乎偏执地追问这唯一的问题：‘人为什么会有过错？’究竟是为什么，人类的心灵会这样设想，认为他的种种‘行动’应该归责于他并让他有过错？”

In The End of Art, Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by 'postart', a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the banal over the enigmatic, the scatological over the sacred, cleverness over creativity. Tracing the demise of aesthetic experience to the works and theory of Marcel Duchamp and Barnett Newman, Kuspit argues that devaluation is inseparable from the entropic character of modern art, and that anti-aesthetic postmodern art is its final state. In contrast to modern art, which expressed the universal human unconscious, postmodern art degenerates into an expression of narrow ideological interests. In reaction to the emptiness and stagnancy of postart, Kuspit signals the aesthetic and human future that lies with the New Old Masters. The End of Art points the way to the future for the visual arts.