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有些人自认把自然界的法则作为已被搜寻出来和已被了解明白的东西来加以规定，无论是出于简单化的保证的口吻，或者是出于职业化的矫饰的说法，都会给哲学以及各门科学带来很大的损害。因为，他们这样做固然能够成功地引得人们相信，却也同样有效地压熄了和停止了人们的探讨；而破坏和截断他人努力这一点的害处是多于他们自己努力所获得的好处的。另一方面，亦有些人采取了相反的途径，断言绝对没有任何事物是可解的——无论他们之得到这种见解是由于对古代诡辩家的憎恨，或者是由于心灵的游移无准，甚至是由于对学问的专心——他们这样无疑是推进了理性对知的要求，而这正是不可鄙薄之处；但是他们却既非从真的原则出发，也没有归到正确的结论，热情和骄气又把他们带领得过远了。较古的希腊人(他们的著作已轶)则本着较好的判断在这两个极端——一个极端是对一切事物都擅敢论断，另一个极端是对任何事物都不敢希望了解——之间采取了折中的立场。他们虽然经常痛苦地抱怨着探讨之不易，事物之难知，有如不耐性的马匹用力咬其衔铁，可是他们仍毫不放松尾追他们的对象，竭力与自然相搏；他们认为(似乎是这样)事物究竟是否可解这个问题不是辩论所能解决的，只有靠试验才能解决。可是他们，由于一味信赖自己理解的力量，也不曾应用什么规矩绳墨，而是把一切事物都诉诸艰苦的思维，诉诸心灵的不断动作和运用。
至于我的方法，做起来虽然困难，说明却很容易。它是这样的：我提议建立一列通到准确性的循序升进的阶梯。感官的证验，在某种校正过程的帮助和防护之下，我是要保留使用的。至于那继感官活动而起的心灵动作，大部分我都加以排斥；我要直接以简单的感官知觉为起点，另外开拓一条新的准确的通路，让心灵循以行进。这一点的必要性显然早被那些重视逻辑的人们所感到；他们之重视逻辑就表明他们是在为理解力寻求帮助，就表明他们对于心灵的那种自然的和自发的过程没有信心。但是，当心灵经过日常生活中的交接和行事已被一些不健全的学说所占据，已被一些虚妄的想象所围困的时候，这个药方就嫌来得太迟，不能有所补救了。因此，逻辑一术，既是(如我所说)来救已晚，既是已经无法把事情改正，就不但没有发现真理的效果，反而把一些错误固定起来。现在我们要想恢复一种健全和健康的情况，只剩有一条途径——这就是，把理解力的全部动作另作一番开始，对心灵本身从一起始就不任其自流，而要步步加以引导；而且这事还要做得像机器所做的一样。譬如，在机械力的事物方面，如果人们赤手从事而不借助于工具的力量，同样，在智力的事物方面，如果人们也一无凭借而仅靠赤裸裸的理解力去进行工作，那么，纵使他们联合起来尽其最大的努力，他们所能力试和所能成就的东西恐怕总是很有限的。现在(且在这个例子上稍停来深入透视一下)我们设想有一座巨大的方塔为了要表彰武功或其他伟绩而须移往他处，而人们竟赤手空拳来从事工作，试问一个清醒的旁观者要不要认为他们是疯了呢?假如他们更去招请较多的人手，以为那样就能把事情办妥，试问这位旁观者岂不要认为他们是疯得更厉害了么?假如他们又进而有所挑选，屏去老弱而专用精壮有力的人手，试问这位旁观者能不认为他们更是疯到空前的程度了么?最后，假如他们还不满足于这种办法而决计求助于体育运动的方术，叫所有人手都按照运动方术的规则把手臂筋肉抹上油，搽上药，前来办事，试问这位旁观者岂不要喊叫出来，说他们只是在用尽苦心来表示自己疯得有方法、疯得有计划么?而人们在智力的事情方面亦正是这样来进行的——也正是同样作发疯的努力，也正是同样求无用的并力。他们也是希望从人数和合作中，或者从个人智慧的卓越和敏锐中，得出伟大的事物；是的，他们也还曾力图使用逻辑来加强理解力，正如用运动方术之加强筋肉。但是他们的一切这些勤苦和努力，在一个真正的判断说来，只不过是始终使用着赤裸裸的智力罢了。实则，每一巨大的工作，如果没有工具和机器而只用人的双手去做，无论是每人用力或者是大家合力，都显然是不可能的。
在提出这些前提之后，我还有两件事情要提醒人们不要忽视。第一点，当我想到要减少反对和愤慨，我看到可幸的结果是，古人们所应有的荣誉和尊崇并未由我而有所触动或有所降减；而我是既能实现我的计划又能收到谦抑的效果的。假如我是宣称与古人走同一道路，而我却要产出较好的事物，那么，在我和古人之间就必然会在智慧的能力或卓越性方面发生一种比较和竞赛(无论用什么技巧的词令也是不可避免的)。虽说这也并没有什么不合法或什么新奇之处(如果古人对于什么事物有了错误的了解和错误的论定，我又为什么不可使用大家所共有的自由来和它立异呢?)但是这一争论，不论怎样正当和可恕，以我的力量来自量，终将是一个不相匹敌的争论。但是，由于我的目的只是要为理解力开拓一条新路，而这条新路乃是古人所未曾试行、所未曾知道的，那么情事就完全不同了。在这里，门户派别的热气是没有了；我只是作为一个指路的向导而出现，而这又是一个权威很小的职务，依赖于某种幸运者多，依赖于能力和卓越性者少。这一点是仅关于人的方面的，就说到这里。至于我所要提醒人们的另一点，则是关于事情本身的。
希望大家记住，无论对于现在盛行的那种哲学，或者对于从前已经提出或今后可能提出的比较更为正确和更为完备的哲学，我都是绝不愿有所干涉的。因为我并不反对使用这种已被公认的哲学或其他类似的哲学来供争论的题材，来供谈话的装饰，来供教授讲学之用，以致来供生活职业之用。不仅如此，我还进一步公开宣布，我所要提出的哲学是无甚可用于那些用途的。它不是摆在途中的。它不是能够在过路时猝然拾起的。它不求合于先入的概念，以谄媚人们的理解。除了它的效用和效果可以共见外，它也不会降低到适于一般俗人的了解。
因此，就让知识中有双流两派吧(这会是对二者都有好处的)；同样，也让哲学家中有两族或两支吧——二者不是敌对或相反的，而是借相互服务而结合在一起的。简言之，有一种培养知识的方法，另有一种发明知识的方法，我们就听其并存吧。
谁认为前一种知识比较可取，不论是由于他们心情急躁，或者是由于他们萦心业务，或者是由于他们缺乏智力来收蓄那另一种知识(多数人的情况必然是这样)，我都愿意他们能够满其所欲，得其所求。但是如果另外有人不满足于停留在和仅仅使用那已经发现的知识，而渴欲进一步有所钻掘；渴欲不是在辩论中征服论敌而是在行动中征服自然；渴欲寻求不是那美妙的、或然的揣测而是准确的、可以论证的知识；那么，我就要邀请他们全体都作为知识的真正的儿子来和我联合起来，使我们经过罪人所踏到的自然的外院，最后还能找到一条道路来进入它的内室。现在，为使我的意思更加清楚并以命名的办法来使事物变得熟习起见，我把上述两种方法或两条道路之一叫作人心的冒测，而另一个则叫作对自然的解释。
此外，我还有一项请求。在我自己这方面，我已决定小心和努力，不仅要使我所提出的东西是真实的，而且还要把它们表达得在不论具有怎样奇怪成见和奇怪障碍的人心之前都不粗硬，都不难受。但对另一方面，我也不能说没有理由(特别是在这样一个伟大的学术和知识的复兴工作当中)要求人们给我一种优遇作为报答，而这就是：假如有人要对我的那些思考形成一种意见和判断，不论是出于他们自己的观察，或者是出于一大堆的权威，又或者是出于一些论证的形式(这些形式现在已经取得了像法律一样的强制力)，我总请他不要希望能够于顺路一过之中来做这事；请他要把事情彻底考察一番；请他要把我所描写、所规划的道路亲身小试一下；请他要让自己的思想对经验所见证的自然的精微熟习起来；还请他要以适度的耐心和应有的迟缓把自己心上根深蒂固的腐坏习惯加以改正：当这一切都已做到而他开始成为他自己的主人时，那就请他(假如他愿意)使用他自己的判断吧。

《长青哲学》是一部神秘主义经典选集，融合了各家各派的观点，书中摘录有埃克哈特大师、鲁米、老子以及《薄伽梵歌》、《西藏度亡经》、《金刚经》、《奥义书》等选段，作者奥尔多斯•赫胥黎按照若干主题将这些经典选段串在一起。作者认为，“长青哲学”存在于世界上所有宗教的传统知识中，其成熟的形式则出现在每一种较为高级的宗教中。在这本《长青哲学》中，赫胥黎旨在揭示为一切信仰所共有的“神圣实在”，他以惊人的智慧和洞察力，考察了大量信仰形式，包括禅宗、印度教、道教、基督教神秘主义和伊斯兰教，研究了各种宗教传统中的精神信仰，并解释了这些信仰是如何统一在人类渴望体验神性这一共同的愿望之下的。 "

本书初版于1969年问世，是巴克敏斯特·富勒最广为人知的作品之一，也是他个人世界观的精彩集成。在这本通俗易懂的小书里，富勒深入探讨了人类面临的严峻考验，努力寻求为避免人类消亡而应该奉行的基本原则。人类如何才能在地球上持续生存繁衍下去？自动化生产对人类的个体化生活会产生什么影响？我们如何能够提高资源使用效率，充分实现人类潜力，让全球贫困终结于今天这一代人？富勒对“专业化”提出质疑，他呼吁发动一场创新设计革命，并对人类如何驾驶“地球号太空船”飞向可持续未来，提出了建议。

本书是“现代西方思想文库”的一种，收入70-80年代科学哲学的重要成果、拉瑞.劳丹的名著《进步及其问题》。本书第一部分阐明科学进步和合理学的一种新模型，并且表明，这一模型如何克服了卡尔.波普尔的“证伪论”、库恩的“科学革命”说等模型的荒谬之处，而将历史材料的某些意义显现出来。第二部分考察这一模型对从思想史直到科学史、科学哲学以及知识社会学这种智力探究事业所产生的结果。

《改变秩序:科学实践中的复制与归纳》立足于科学社会学的视角，探索了科学家得出实验结论的内在机制。从日常生活中的简单事例着手，分析了规则的社会基础：借助于隐喻方法，揭示了理性主义的科学哲学所遇到的困难以及把可复制性作为科学知识的客观性基础的不可能性：通过对复制TEA激光器等三个具体案例的跟踪考察，剖析了科学家在重复科学实验时潜存的实验者回归现象和相对主义经验纲领的三个阶段。并论证了科学家结束科学争论的社会机制和科学政治学的思想。

是誰創造「巴斯德」並且站上歷史的舞台？誰又在這洪流中逐漸隱沒？
路易．巴斯德（Louis Pasteur 1822-1895），細菌學之父，醫學邁入新時代的象徵，法國人心目中的民族英雄。如今以巴斯德為名的街道遍布法國大小城鎮，他的成就無可質疑，然而布魯諾．拉圖（Bruno Latour）卻向這公認的事實提出疑問：為什麼人類生活環境的改善全數歸功於巴斯德的天才？
本書是世界重量級思想家拉圖的經典著作，不以偉人當作一個時代的答案，他將巴斯德放回在普法戰爭中落敗的法國。戰後法國政府力圖振作，而改造國民體質是走向富強的必要項目，在這樣的背景下，拉開了法國十九世紀公共衛生運動的序幕。與此同時，巴斯德在實驗室與細菌交戰，最終掌握細菌的特性，並提出細菌傳染導致疾病的理論，然而這一時一地一個團隊的研究成果竟透過新聞媒體迅速取得社會大眾的認可，讓他成為細菌的代言人。這時衛生專家接手把實驗室的成果導向法國再生的關鍵，將巴斯德高舉為科學精神的象徵，而細菌則是全法國都應該齊心對抗的敵人，使得公衛運動的推展逐步取得正當性，深入各個層面，上至城市下水道開鑿的施政績效，下至不可隨意吐痰的個人道德要求。
有別於偉人獨自改變世界的線性敘事，拉圖呈現一幅紛亂的景像，其中的人物懷抱各自的企圖，彼此結盟、互相利用，為了說服對方而四處奔走，在不斷的角力當中界定社會、創造歷史。
本書特色
◎認識法國公共衛生的歷史，衛生清潔如何轉變為施政績效與個人的道德約束。
◎解構偉人敘事，指出時代的變革是眾人為實現各自的目標與利益而持續角力的過程。
◎拋開抽象的理論語言，學習以一種更深刻的方式來描述這個世界。

Roger Bacon, the medieval natural philosopher who broke new ground in promoting scientific method, produced the encyclopedic Opus Majus or 'Greater Work' in the mid-thirteenth century. This 1897 publication in two volumes was the first complete edition of the work to appear in print. Written at the request of Pope Clement IV, the Opus Majus is the most significant and most influential of Bacon's works, containing his observations of the natural world and theories on knowledge acquisition. Bacon's text appears in the original Latin, and Bridges includes a substantial introduction and brief analysis of each chapter in English, as well as extensive footnotes and an analytical table to aid the reader. Volume 1 contains the first four parts of Bacon's treatise with sections on 'Wisdom and Truth', 'The connection of Philosophy with Theology', 'The Study of Language', and 'Mathematical Science'.

Neoreaction is not your grandfather's conservatism, but the web 2.0 era marriage between modern engineering principles and classical anti-democratic thought. Its central tenet is that the Enlightenment was a mistake, and in The Dark Enlightenment, Nick Land burns progressivism to the ground, salts the earth around its ashes, and raises an altar to anti-humanism in its place.
Land explicates the main ideas of neoreaction-the Cathedral, neocameralism, formalism, etc.-always viewing democracy, liberalism, and politics in general through the lens of Darwinism. The result is something like Thomas Hobbes as ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft. Included in this volume is an unreleased essay by Land on the writing and impact of The Dark Enlightenment.
Absolutely none of this incendiary work has been proven wrong in the ten years since it was written. No doubt it will remain relevant for many years to come.

An impassionate and fearless study of Georges Bataille which goes beyond analysis and criticism to actually engage with him.

Fanged Noumena brings together the writings of Nick Land for the first time. During the 1990s Land's unique philosophical work, variously described as 'rabid nihilism', 'mad black deleuzianism' and 'cybergothic', developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of 'continental philosophy' - a route which was implacably blocked by the academy. However, Land's work has continued to exert an influence, both through the British 'speculative realist' philosophers who studied with him, and through the many cultural producers - artists, musicians, filmmakers, bloggers - who have been invigorated by his uncompromising and abrasive philosophical vision.
Beginning with Land's early radical rereadings of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kant and Bataille, the volume then collects together the papers, talks and articles of the mid-90s - long the subject of rumour and vague legend (including some work which has never previously appeared in print) - in which Land developed his futuristic theory-fiction of cybercapitalism gone amok; and ends with his enigmatic later writings in which Ballardian fictions, poetics, cryptography, anthropology, grammatology and the occult are smeared into unrecognisable hybrids.
Fanged Noumena allows a dizzying perspective on the entire trajectory of this provocative and influential thinker's work, and will introduce his unique voice to a new generation of readers.

Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under its umbrella - astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind. But defining what makes these fields “pseudo” is a far more complex issue. It has proved impossible to come up with a simple criterion that enables us to differentiate pseudoscience from genuine science. Given the virulence of contemporary disputes over the denial of climate change and anti-vaccination movements - both of which display allegations of “pseudoscience” on all sides - there is a clear need to better understand issues of scientific demarcation.
Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation. This book argues that by understanding doctrines that are often seen as antithetical to science, we can learn a great deal about how science operated in the past and does today. This exploration raises several questions: How does a doctrine become demonized as pseudoscientific? Who has the authority to make these pronouncements? How is the status of science shaped by political or cultural contexts? How does pseudoscience differ from scientific fraud?
Michael D. Gordin both answers these questions and guides readers along a bewildering array of marginalized doctrines, looking at parapsychology (ESP), Lysenkoism, scientific racism, and alchemy, among others, to better understand the struggle to define what science is and is not, and how the controversies have shifted over the centuries. Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction provides a historical tour through many of these fringe fields in order to provide tools to think deeply about scientific controversies both in the past and in our present.

Focuses on the scientific and mathematical principles underlying the science of complexity
Shows how many processes in nature can be understood using complexity
Explores a series of examples to highlight and explain the various types of complex systems
Includes examples from the physical and biological sciences, as well as the applications in economics and management
Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over six million copies sold worldwide
The importance of complexity is well-captured by Hawking's comment: "Complexity is the science of the 21st century". From the movement of flocks of birds to the Internet, environmental sustainability, and market regulation, the study and understanding of complex non-linear systems has become highly influential over the last 30 years.
In this Very Short Introduction, one of the leading figures in the field, John Holland, introduces the key elements and conceptual framework of complexity. From complex physical systems such as fluid flow and the difficulties of predicting weather, to complex adaptive systems such as the highly diverse and interdependent ecosystems of rainforests, he combines simple, well-known examples — Adam Smith's pin factory, Darwin's comet orchid, and Simon's 'watchmaker' — with an account of the approaches, involving agents and urn models, taken by complexity theory.

16和17世纪，人们对自然世界展开狂热探索，是为“科学革命”时期。或是出于宗教热情，或是出于实际需求，或是出于名与利的前景，或是仅仅出于求知的欲望，各色思想者和实干家探究并重新审视着身边的世界。哥白尼、伽利略、牛顿，这些人类整个科学史上*为耀眼的星辰，以及其他许多虽无盛名却同样重要的名字，不停地给出、抛弃、再给出各种解释体系。
在这本极简介绍中，劳伦斯•普林西比探索了科学革命时期天体科学、地球科学、物质与运动科学以及生命科学领域激动人心的革新与发展。在叙述中，作者采用了历史人物本身的视角，突出强调了他们的背景、环境、推理与动机，破除了科学史上的种种陈腐迷雾。

Shows the value of the Bayesian methodology for the addressing the core issues in the field
Provides clear, comprehensive, and accessible explanations
Discusses a wide range of questions, from philosophical foundations to practical applications in science
Combines mathematical modeling with conceptual analysis, simulations, case studies, and empirical results
How should we reason in science? Jan Sprenger and Stephan Hartmann offer a refreshing take on classical topics in philosophy of science, using a single key concept to explain and to elucidate manifold aspects of scientific reasoning. They present good arguments and good inferences as being characterized by their effect on our rational degrees of belief. Refuting the view that there is no place for subjective attitudes in 'objective science', Sprenger and Hartmann explain the value of convincing evidence in terms of a cycle of variations on the theme of representing rational degrees of belief by means of subjective probabilities (and changing them by Bayesian conditionalization). In doing so, they integrate Bayesian inference—the leading theory of rationality in social science—with the practice of 21st century science. Bayesian Philosophy of Science thereby shows how modeling such attitudes improves our understanding of causes, explanations, confirming evidence, and scientific models in general. It combines a scientifically minded and mathematically sophisticated approach with conceptual analysis and attention to methodological problems of modern science, especially in statistical inference, and is therefore a valuable resource for philosophers and scientific practitioners.

Over the last four decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died two years ago, he was considered to be a thinker on a par with Foucault, Barthes, and Lacan--a public intellectual as influential to his generation as Sartre was to his.
"Science of Science and Reflexivity" will be welcomed as a companion volume to Bourdieu's now seminal "An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology." In this posthumous work, Bourdieu declares that science is in danger of becoming a handmaiden to biotechnology, medicine, genetic engineering, and military research--that it risks falling under the control of industrial corporations that seek to exploit it for monopolies and profit.
Science thus endangered can become detrimental to mankind. The line between pure and applied science, therefore, must be subjected to intense theoretical scrutiny. Bourdieu's goals in "Science of Science and Reflexivity" are to identify the social conditions in which science develops in order to reclaim its objectivity and to rescue it from relativism and the forces that might exploit it. In the grand tradition of scientific reflections on science, Bourdieu provides a sociological analysis of the discipline as something capable of producing transhistorical truths; he presents an incisive critique of the main currents in the study of science throughout the past half century; and he offers a spirited defense of science against encroaching political and economic forces.
A masterful summation of the principles underlying Bourdieu's oeuvre and a memoir of his own scientific journey, "Science of Science and Reflexivity" is a capstone to one of the most important and prodigious careers in the field of sociology.

Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel, alternative discourse sought to come to terms with the rather fundamental experience of the thoroughgoing scientific changes brought on by the revolution in physics. Philosophers of science and historians of science alike contributed their share to what this essay describes as an ongoing quest to historicize epistemology. Historical epistemology, in this sense, is not so concerned with the knowing subject and its mental capacities. Rather, it envisages science as an ongoing cultural endeavor and tries to assess the conditions under which the sciences in all their diversity take shape and change over time.

A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.
This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn’s unfinished book, The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development, which Kuhn himself described as a return to the central claims of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the problems that it raised but did not resolve. The Plurality of Worlds is preceded by two related texts that Kuhn publicly delivered but never published in English: his paper “Scientific Knowledge as a Historical Product” and his Shearman Memorial Lectures, “The Presence of Past Science.” An introduction by the editor describes the origins and structure of The Plurality of Worlds and sheds light on its central philosophical problems.
Kuhn’s aims in his last writings are bold. He sets out to develop an empirically grounded theory of meaning that would allow him to make sense of both the possibility of historical understanding and the inevitability of incommensurability between past and present science. In his view, incommensurability is fully compatible with a robust notion of the real world that science investigates, the rationality of scientific change, and the idea that scientific development is progressive.

Defining the lives of a majority of the world’s population, the question of ‘the city’ has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time – uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research. Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute ‘the city’ today. Case studies range from the ‘laboratory urbanism' of an Austrian ski resort and a ‘sustainable’ Swedish shopping mall to the ‘urbicidal’ refurbishments of Haifa.
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This collection unfolds new urban research. The unlimited city extends to all urban practices: passers-by, tourists, sports players and the homeless who merge with indigenous people, settlers, prostitutes and workers to striate the common local space or resist administrative tasks. Research becomes central to this collective assemblage, transversing between times and hierarchies. A great experiment!
-- Anne Querrien, co-editor of the French journal Multitudes and former co-editor of Les Annales de la Recherche Urbaine
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Author approvedAdd endorsementDispels the old question of what the city is, asking instead what it can doDefining the livelihood of a majority of the worlds population, the question of the city has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research.Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattaris philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute the city today.Dispelling the old question of what the city is, asking instead what it can do, this collection provides a nuanced mapping of situations emerging in concrete urban settings across the globe, ranging from the laboratory urbanism of an Austrian ski resort to a sustainable Swedish shopping mall.Hélène Frichot is Associate Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture. Catharina Gabrielsson is Assistant Professor in Urban Theory and Jonathan Metzger is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Studies. They are all based at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Author approved Add endorsement Dispels the old question of what the city is, asking instead what it can do Defining the livelihood of a majority of the world’s population, the question of ‘the city’ has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time – uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research. Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute ‘the city’ today. Dispelling the old question of what the city is, asking instead what it can do, this collection provides a nuanced mapping of situations emerging in concrete urban settings across the globe, ranging from the ‘laboratory urbanism‘ of an Austrian ski resort to a ‘sustainable’ Swedish shopping mall. Hélène Frichot is Associate Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture. Catharina Gabrielsson is Assistant Professor in Urban Theory and Jonathan Metzger is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Studies. They are all based at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden.