《机械复制时代的艺术》是本雅明最具颠覆性的作品。书中论述了技术革命在当代所孵化的新的艺术样式——机械复制艺术。他从艺术生产理论出发，从制造技术的角度，剖析了古典艺术与现代艺术的区别。机械复制技术制造了“世物皆同的感觉”，消解了古典艺术的距离感和唯一性。导致了古典艺术的“灵光”消逝，即艺术美境的流失。在机械复制时代。艺术不再以仪式为基础。而是建筑于政治学之上。在《机械复制时代的艺术》(全译彩图本)中。其超现实主义和犹太神秘主义风格，给20世纪留下了一个巨大的思考空间。

本书主要讨论齐美尔、克拉考尔和本雅明的现代性思想及其方法。作者认为，与哈贝马斯、韦伯等诸多学者试图建构无所不包的抽象的现代性理论不同，三位学者的现代性研究是从破译现代性碎片的奥秘入手的：齐美尔《货币哲学》中透显的“现实的偶像性碎片”，克拉考尔《大众装饰》、《白领雇员》中表述的“无关宏旨的表面现象”，以及本雅明《拱廊街计划》中的“辨证意象”或“单子论”的阐述，都在日常生活世界的层面上救赎了最为细微的现代性痕迹。全书内容新颖，文字细腻，是一部从审美的，政治的或历史的方式解读现代性的佳作。

对本雅明所处社会生活独具一格的细节“近察”，由六十篇小品文组成，“超乎寻常”，尽管是轻松的格言、随感，短小精悍，却都语言晦涩，思维诡谲。作者坦承，本书“表现出很独特的组织或结构，它是一条街道，从极其陡峭的深度——不要从引申义来理解这个词！——凿开一副街景的缩略图， 就像维琴察著名的由帕拉第奥设计的舞台背景一样：街道”，“它是不匀质的，甚至是极端对立的，这种张力下迸射出的火花有些可能过于刺眼，有些可能过于轰鸣。”

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors - argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditative psychology and situate it in relation to other traditions such as phenomenology and psychoanalysis.Francisco Varela is Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and Professor of Cognitive Science and Epistemology, CREA, at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. Evan Thompson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Eleanor Rosch is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

本书以萨特走向存在主义马克思主义的思想进程为轴心，论述了存在主义的马克思主义产生与形成的三个阶段。第一个阶段以黑格尔的复兴和马克思的再发现为标志，构成了存在主义马克思主义产生的理论准备阶段；第二阶段以存在主义与斯大林主义之间的理论交锋为特征，是存在主义马克思主义理论方向的开启阶段；第三个阶段以存在主义与马克思主义的“融合”为主题，是存在主义马克思主义的最终形成阶段。存在主义马克思主义的形成呈现为一个发现、争论、融合的历史进程，并在20世纪60年代成为具有重要影响的马克思主义理论。

【编辑推荐】：
◎让-弗朗索瓦•利奥塔是当代法国著名哲学家、后现代思潮理论家、解构主义哲学的杰出代表。
◎本书通过收录20世纪60年代至80年代利奥塔的书信、演讲、访谈、其代表作的部分章节，生动展现了利奥塔的后现代思想，以及他对自己主要著作的反思与坦白。
◎本书为1997年版《后现代与公正游戏》的修订译本。
◎什么是后现代性？为何作者认为宏大叙事失败了，要促进小叙事的繁荣？……阅读本书，您将一一揭开谜底。
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什么是后现代？利奥塔认为，后现代意味着一种转向、一种背离。自启蒙时代以来，通过高扬理性，确立人权，宣扬自由、平等与博爱，整个人类似乎随着时代的进步都可以摆脱落后与愚昧、迎接进步与光明。然而奥斯威辛集中营的出现却打破了这一美好愿景和幻象。当宏大的人类解放图景已经破产，当突飞猛进的科技力量已经走向了造福人类的反面，后现代就出现了。
那么，后现代意味着什么？对利奥塔来说，后现代的特征是人们普遍从事着各种各样的语言游戏，在其中，你可以是游戏规则的制定者，也可以是执行者，你也可以从事多种游戏。但任何一种游戏规则都不能凌驾于其他规则之上，这就是所谓的公正游戏。如果跨出这一步，那就意味着纳粹、独裁和暴行。

《后现代状态：关于知识的报告》的研究对象是“后现代条件下的知识问题”，涉及了19世纪末以来.受到科学、文学、艺术行为原则影响的文化状态，对现代的评论的正确性和真实性提出质疑，指出后现代的科技发展向人们提供了权力的增长，使知识变成了商品，成了决策的因素与手段。技术标准并不能判断真实与正义，在分歧中产生了相对临时的、制约性的真理标准。

Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields.
The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy.
This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures.

Tristes Tropiques was an immensely popular bestseller when it was first published in France in 1955. Claude Levi-Strauss's groundbreaking study of the societies of a number of Amazonian peoples is a cornerstone of structural anthropology and an exploration by the author of his own intellectual roots as a professor of philosophy in Brazil before the Second World War, as a Jewish exile from Nazi-occupied Europe, and later as a world-renowned academic (he taught at New York's New School for Social Research and was French cultural attache to the United States). Levi-Strauss's central journey leads from the Amazon basin through the dense upland jungles of Brazil. There, among the Amerindian tribes - the Caduveo, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib - he found "a human society reduced to its most basic expression." Levi-Strauss's discussion of his fieldwork in Tristes Tropiques endures as a milestone of anthropology, but the book is also, in its brilliant diversions on other, more familiar cultures, a great work of literature, a vivid travelogue, and an engaging memoir - a demonstration of the marvelous mental agility of one of the century's most important thinkers. Presented here is the translation by John and Doreen Weightman of the complete text of the revised French edition of 1968, together with the original photographs and illustrations.

One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature--by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces such as "On the Concept of History" and The Arcades Project.
Composed of sixty short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, One-Way Street evokes a dense cityscape of shops, cafes, and apartments, alive with the hubbub of social interactions and papered over with public inscriptions of all kinds: advertisements, signs, posters, slogans. Benjamin avoids all semblance of linear narrative, enticing readers with a seemingly random sequence of aphorisms, reminiscences, jokes, off-the-cuff observations, dreamlike fantasias, serious philosophical inquiries, apparently unserious philosophical parodies, and trenchant political commentaries. Providing remarkable insight into the occluded meanings of everyday things, Benjamin time and again proves himself the unrivalled interpreter of what he called "the soul of the commodity."
Despite the diversity of its individual sections, Benjamin's text is far from formless. Drawing on the avant-garde aesthetics of Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism, its unusual construction implies a practice of reading that cannot be reduced to simple formulas. Still refractory, still radical, One-Way Street is a work in perpetual progress.

Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts - on media and on culture in general - in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought.This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of writings that the editors have assembled to demonstrate what was revolutionary about Benjamin's explorations on media. Long before Marshall McLuhan, Benjamin saw that the way a bullet rips into its victim is exactly the way a movie or pop song lodges in the soul.This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of the "Work of Art" essay - the one that addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. The collection tracks Benjamin's observations on the media as they are revealed in essays on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and painting. The volume contains some of Benjamin's best-known work alongside fascinating, little-known essays - some appearing for the first time in English. In the context of his passionate engagement with questions of aesthetics, the scope of Benjamin's media theory can be fully appreciated.

★“神圣人”系列承上启下之作
★进一步探问西方权力的谱系
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为什么西方的权力会采取“安济”（economy）的形式，即对人的治理？如果权力在本质上就是治理，为什么权力需要荣耀，即与之相伴的仪式和欢呼？在本书中，阿甘本将治理放到三位一体安济的神学领域中进行考察，指出这种神学-安济范式乃是诸多现代政治范畴的源头——从分权的民主理论，到亚当·斯密的“看不见的手”，再到秩序与安全的观念，无不如是。
此外，阿甘本还追问了历来被忽视的安济与荣耀的关系，揭示出现代权力不仅是治理，也是荣耀，典礼、仪式、欢呼这些被我们视作过去之残余的东西实际上构成了西方权力的基础。通过对仪式性欢呼和权力的仪式性象征物——王座、王冠、紫袍、法杖等——的精彩分析，阿甘本提出了一种独特的谱系学，阐明了为何“一致赞同”和“景观媒介”在现代民主中会起到如此惊人的作用。通过本书，肇始于《神圣人》的研究到达了一个至关重要的节点，极其深刻地更新了我们对政治的认识。
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【媒体及名人推荐】
阿甘本的论述复杂、多面、包罗万象，提供了一个有用的模型。
——凯利·C.麦克费尔
《王国与荣耀》讲述了复杂的三位一体概念如何在上千年的时间中，逐渐融进我们最基本的世俗政治概念。
——《牛津人评论》
阿甘本的感觉、叙述和思考都特别迷人。
——《政治评论》
《神圣人》绝对值得一读，因为它独具启示性和挑战性。
——《现代派》
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【编辑推荐】
◆本书属于“左翼前沿思想译丛”，该译丛收录了巴迪欧、阿甘本、齐泽克等一批卓越的欧陆思想家在过去二十年间的经典著作，具有极高的理论价值。
◆阿甘本是当今世界的顶级学者之一，其著述跨越政治哲学、法理学、神学、本体论、艺术、语言、美学、文学等学科领域，他的博学广识以及他对政治哲学的独特贡献，获得了包括拉克劳、奈格里、齐泽克等许多同代思想家的由衷敬佩。
◆本书为阿甘本代表作“神圣人”系列的第五本，进一步解答了《神圣人：至高权力与赤裸生命》中所展开的西方权力谱系问题，可与之对照阅读。

The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it. In "Homo Sacer, " Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. Taking his cue from Foucault's fragmentary analysis of biopolitics, Agamben probes with great breadth, intensity, and acuteness the covert or implicit presence of an idea of biopolitics in the history of traditional political theory. He argues that from the earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotle's notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the history of Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the state), a notion of sovereignty as power over "life" is implicit. The reason it remains merely implicit has to do, according to Agamben, with the way the sacred, or the idea of sacrality, becomes indissociable from the idea of sovereignty. Drawing upon Carl Schmitt's idea of the sovereign's status as the exception to the rules he safeguards, and on anthropological research that reveals the close interlinking of the sacred and the taboo, Agamben defines the sacred person as one who can be killed and yet not sacrificed--a paradox he sees as operative in the status of the modern individual living in a system that exerts control over the collective "naked life" of all individuals.

◆阿甘本关于方法的回溯式反思
◆“神圣人”系列从“谱系学”回归“考古学”的转折之作
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对方法进行反思，对阿甘本来说意味着一种考古学意义上的警惕：它是一种执着的思想形式，它的途径是暴露、检视和阐明那依然晦暗、没有形成主题、甚至没有被说出的东西。因此，保持考古学意义上的警惕，也就是回归、甚至发明一种与一个“由相似和交感、类比和对应的密网支撑起来的世界”相协调的方法。阿甘本在这部简短却密实的著作中提及大量的作家和主题，这是为创造一门超越符号学或者说解释学而进行的探索的范例。
本书是阿甘本对三个有关方法的特殊问题的评论：范式的概念、签名的理论，以及历史和考古学之间的关系——这些概念是阿甘本以跨历史的方式、从跨学科的视角仔细建构起来的。在文本中，阿甘本始终在致敬米歇尔·福柯，他重新思考并有效地利用福柯的方法，来重新表述他剔出的这些概念的逻辑。
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【媒体推荐】
《万物的签名》是最高智识水准的结晶。
——康纳·奥迪尔《哲学评论》
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阿甘本的感觉、叙述和思考都特别迷人。
——《政治评论》
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【编辑推荐】
1、本书属于“左翼前沿思想译丛”，该译丛收录了巴迪欧、阿甘本、齐泽克等一批卓越的欧陆思想家在过去二十年间的经典著作，具有极高的理论价值。
2、阿甘本是当今世界的顶级学者之一，其著述跨越政治哲学、法理学、神学、本体论、艺术、语言、美学、文学等学科领域，他的博学广识以及他对政治哲学的独特贡献，获得了包括拉克劳、奈格里、齐泽克等许多同代思想家的由衷敬佩。
3、阿甘本在这部简短却密实的著作中谈论包括马塞尔·莫斯、恩佐·梅兰德里、马克·布洛赫、乔治·杜梅齐尔等在内的大量作家和主题，本书代表了阿甘本思想轨迹的转折——与福柯相反，从“谱系学”回归“考古学”。

本书既是阿尔都塞在巴黎高师开设的哲学史课程的讲义，也是一份卓绝的理论工作的珍贵记录。通过讲授从马基雅维利、霍布斯、18世纪法国哲学与政治、黑格尔、直到马克思的现代思想历程，阿尔都塞把“在哲学中成为马克思主义者”的艰巨事业落实于对理论文本进行精彩、深邃而细腻的解读之中，致力于通过“极端的思考”，在思想史上发掘与汇聚一条“唯物主义的潜流”，揭示马克思理论革命的历史渊源。

The groundbreaking Marxist philosopher provides unique appraisals of major writers.

《哲学与政治:阿尔都塞读本(套装上下册)》展现了阿尔都塞作为当代西方左翼思想家崭新的思想水平，被西方思想理论界视为一部最具代表的著作。路易·阿尔都塞是法国激进知识分子的精神之父。他曾是西方现代马克主义学说的代表人物。20世纪80年代他的作品也曾被引进中国。受到广泛地关注。这本选集是他对自己马克思主义理论研究的重新反思和自我批评。书中以对哲学和政治关系的思考为主题，收入了他最具代表意义的几部著作，包括《哲学课》、《马基雅维利和我们》及《意识形态和意识形态国家机器》等经典文本。