First published in France in 1983, this is at once a revolutionary work in philosophy and a book about cinema. For Deleuze, philosophy cannot be a reflection of something else; philosophical concepts are, rather, the images of thought, to be understood on their own terms. Here he puts this view of philosophy to work in understanding the concepts-or images-of film. Cinema, to Deleuze, is not a language that requires probing and interpretation, a search for hidden meanings; it can be understood directly, as a composition of images and signs, pre-verbal in nature. Thus he offers a powerful alternative to the psychoanalytic and semiological approaches that have dominated film studies.
Drawing upon Henri Bergson's thesis on perception and C. S. Peirce's classification of images and signs, Deleuze is able to put forth a new theory and taxonomy of the image, which he then applies to concrete examples from the work of a diverse group of filmmakers—Griffith, Eisenstein, Pasolini, Rohmer, Bresson, Dreyer, Stroheim, Buñuel, and many others. Because he finds movement to be the primary characteristic of cinema in the first half of the twentieth century, he devotes this first volume to that aspect of film. In the years since World War II, time has come to dominate film; that shift, and the signs and images associated with it, are addressed in Cinema 2: The Time-Image.
"The appearance of [this book] is an exciting event for film study and one that well deserves serious attention and commentary." —Film Quarterly

Cinema 2: The Time-Image brings to completion Gilles Deleuze's work on the theoretical implications of the cinematographic image. In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Deleuze proposed a new way to understand narrative cinema, based on Henri Bergson's notion of the movement-image and C. S. Peirce's classification of images and signs. In Cinema 2, he explains why, since World War II, time has come to dominate film: the fragment or solitary image, in supplanting narrative cinema's rational development of events, illustrates this new significance of time.
Deleuze ascribes this shift to the condition of postwar Europe: the situations and spaces "we no longer know how to describe"—buildings deserted but inhabited, cities undergoing demolition or reconstruction—and the new race of characters who emerged from this rubble, mutants, who "saw rather than acted." Deleuze discusses the films of Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Godard, Resnais, Antonioni, Pasolini, Rohmer, Ophuls, and many others, suggesting that contemporary cinema, far from being dead, is only beginning to find new ways to capture time in the image.

吉奥乔·阿甘本最著名的论著均属于政治哲学领域，国内也不乏出版，但其处女作讨论的却是诗学和美学。《没有内容的人》是他系统性地探讨美学和艺术的重要著作，最早出版于1970年，如今重读却并不让人感觉过时。相反，倒好像经过后现代主义洗礼以后，我们对书里提出的若干核心问题更能感同身受。康德在《判断力批判》中提出了审美判断四大原则：无利害关心的愉悦、无概念的普遍性、无目的的合目的性、无规范的规范性。然而，随着从观者感性经验出发的审美概念在艺术体验里占据越来越重要的位置，某种分裂也越来越明显：批评与创作、趣味与天才、审美判断与创作原理……本书中，阿甘本将目光对准上述让现代作者和观者困扰不已的两难关系，从根源上对审美概念本身提出了质疑。值得一提的是，哈尔·福斯特（Hal Foster）的《反美学》（Anti-aesthetics）1983年出版；特里·伊格尔顿（Terry Eagleton）的《审美意识形态》（The Ideology of The Aesthetic）完成于1990年。相比之下，我们不得不承认，在同一个问题上，阿甘本的见解非常早熟。这也是为什么时至今日，这本书仍未丧失其最初的力量。

本书是意大利当代著名哲学家乔吉奥·阿甘本的代表作之一，以语言、历史和潜能为专题，收录了作者三十年来的重要论文共22篇，集中体现了阿甘本的哲学论题、基本概念、关注领域和著述风格，涵括了阿甘本最关键也是最著名的思想成果，例如他对亚里士多德“潜能”概念的当代诠释。这些论文涉及哲学、语言学、古典学、文学、宗教、艺术史及历史等多个领域，虽各自独立，相互间又有着紧密的逻辑关联。

In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself. He argues, however, that Hegel by no means proclaimed the "death of art" (as many still imagine) but proclaimed rather the indefinite continuation of art in what Hegel called a "self-annulling" mode. With astonishing breadth and originality, the author probes the meaning, aesthetics, and historical consequences of that self-annulment. In essence, he argues that the birth of modern aesthetics is the result of a series of schisms--between artist and spectator, genius and taste, and form and matter, for example--that are manifestations of the deeper, self-negating yet self-perpetuating movement of irony. Through this concept of self-annulment, the author offers an imaginative reinterpretation of the history of aesthetic theory from Kant to Heidegger, and he opens up original perspectives on such phenomena as the rise of the modern museum, the link between art and terror, the natural affinity between "good taste" and its perversion, and kitsch as the inevitable destiny of art in the modern era. The final chapter offers a dazzling interpretation of Durer's "Melancholia" in the terms that the book has articulated as its own. "The Man Without Content" will naturally interest those who already prize Agamben's work, but it will also make his name relevant to a whole new audience--those involved with art, art history, the history of aesthetics, and popular culture.

This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both the history of philosophy and contemporary European thought. The essays that follow articulate a series of theoretical confrontations with privileged figures in the history of philosophy, politics, and criticism, from Plato to Spinoza, Aristotle to Deleuze, Carl Schmitt to Benjamin, Hegel to Aby Warburg, and Heidegger to Derrida. Three fundamental concepts organize the collection as a whole: language, in the sense not of particular statements but rather the very taking place of speech, the pure fact of language's existence; history, as it appears from a perspective in which tradition, transmission, and memory reach their messianic fulfillment; and potentiality, understood as a fundamental problem of metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of language. All these topics converge in the final part of the book, in which Agamben offers an extensive reading of Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" as a work that puts potentiality and actuality, possibility and reality, in an altogether new light.

本书原为考察福柯论社会理论与社会史的最新著作的价值的一组论文。福柯自1968年以来写作的著作包含着某些社会理论和社会史著述中的重要进展。作者试图从其所发现的具有较小价值的其他福柯思想的特征中析出那些进展。作者将福柯的著作置于双重问题式中：社会批判理论的以及称之为“信息方式”的新社会构型的问题式。作者试图证明，福柯提供了包括理论因素的分析模式，如果对这些理论因素进行恰当的解释，就能为批判理论开启新方向，并将之带出他当前的困境。

Negotiations traces the intellectual journey of a man widely acclaimed as one of the most important French philosphers. A provocative guide to Deleuze by Deleuze, the collection clarifies the key critical concepts in the work of this vital figure in contemporary philosphy, who has had a lasting impact on a variety of disciplines, including aesthetics, film theory, psycho-analysis, and cultural studies.

-- Times Higher Education Supplement</P><br/>
Nietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognized as one of the most important accounts of Nietzsche's philosophy, acclaimed for its rare combination of scholarly rigour and imaginative interpretation. Yet this is more than a major work on Nietzsche: the book opened a whole new avenue in post-war thought. Here Deleuze shows how Nietzsche began a new way of thinking which breaks with the dialectic as a method and escapes the confines of philosophy itself.</P>

《小说理论》是匈牙利著名哲学家卢卡奇的名著，从历史哲学论探讨了伟大史诗的诸形式。该书的主要意义在于，通过对史诗时代和现代的分析、对比和对各种不同类型小说中主人公特点的集中褒贬评论，表达了一大部分知识分子对史诗时代的怀念、对现代资本主义社会的极端不满以及对未来世界的思考、探索和憧憬。此外，卢卡奇在这部著作中把时代看作是史诗和小说的承担者，把小说视为“一个时代的史诗”，“我们时代的具有代表性的艺术形式”。

Georg Lukacs wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters , Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism , Spengler's Decline of the West , and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia . Like many of Lukacs's early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific Central European philosophy of life and tradition of dialectical idealism whose originators include Kant, Hegel, Novalis, Marx, Kierkegaard, Simmel, Weber, and Husserl.

The Theory of the Novel marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukacs's last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism.

This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat.Writing in 1968, on the occasion of the appearance of his collected works, Lukacs evaluated the influence of this book as follows:"For the historical effect of History and Class Consciousness and also for the actuality of the present time one problem is of decisive importance: alienation, which is here treated for the first time since Marx as the central question of a revolutionary critique of capitalism, and whose historical as well as methodological origins are deeply rooted in Hegelian dialectic. It goes without saying that the problem was omnipresent. A few years after History and Class Consciousness was published, it was moved into the focus of philosophical discussion by Heidegger in his Being and Time, a place which it maintains to this day largely as a result of the position occupied by Sartre and his followers. The philologic question raised by L. Goldmann, who considered Heidegger's work partly as a polemic reply to my (admittedly unnamed) work, need not be discussed here. It suffices today to say that the problem was in the air, particularly if we analyze its background in detail in order to clarify its effect, the mixture of Marxist and Existentialist thought processes, which prevailed especially in France immediately after the Second World War. In this connection priorities, influences, and so on are not particularly significant. What is important is that the alienation of man was recognized and appreciated as the central problem of the time in which we live, by bourgeois as well as proletarian, by politically rightist and leftist thinkers. Thus, History and Class Consciousness exerted a profound effect in the circles of the youthful intelligentsia."George Lichtheim, also in 1968, writes that "...The originality of the early Lukacs lay in the assertion that the totality of history could be apprehended by adopting a particular 'class standpoint': that of the proletariat. Class consciousness;not indeed the empirical consciousness of the actual proletariat, which was hopelessly entangled with the surface aspects of objective reality, but an ideal-typical consciousness proper to a class which radically negates the existing order of reality: that was the formula which had made it possible for the Lukacs of 1923 to unify theory and practice."

本书是德国当代著名学者埃里希•奥尔巴赫（1892-1957）的经典之作。在西方学术界具有广泛影响，曾再版九次，被译成西方主要文字在许多国家出版。作者从美学角度出发，用文学史家的眼光，对西方三千年来最具影响的经典文学作品，如荷马史诗、教会文学、骑士小说以及法国、西班牙、德国、英国文学中具有代表性的作品中各种写实风格及其发展，做了精辟的分析。其着重于表现严肃性、冲突性或悲剧性的尺度和方式问题，已经广为学术界重视。奥尔巴赫的拉丁系语文学研究，通过仔细考察语言和文学的形象化描述，指明了自罗马帝国一脉相承而来的欧洲各民族文化的各自特点和发展，对欧洲从古代史诗到现代长篇小说的艺术革命中人类的自我认识提供了全方位描述。

A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, never before translated into English, in which Auerbach responds to his critics. A German Jew, Auerbach was forced out of his professorship at the University of Marburg in 1935. He left for Turkey, where he taught at the state university in Istanbul. There, he wrote "Mimesis", publishing it in German after the end of the war. Displaced as he was, Auerbach produced a work of great erudition that contains no footnotes, basing his arguments instead on searching, illuminating readings of key passages from his primary texts. His aim was to show how, from antiquity to the twentieth century, literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This essentially optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive - and impassioned - response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach used his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism, in his own day and ours. For many readers, both inside and outside the academy, "Mimesis" is among the finest works of literary criticism ever written.

Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status uf science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world. Lyotard emphasized language; the world of postmodern knowledge can be represented as a game of language where speaking is participation in the game whose goal is the creation of new and ever-changing social linkages.

Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the link between ethical and ontological propositions. His ethics is an ethology, rather than a moral science. Attention has been drawn to Spinoza by deep ecologists such as Arne Naess, the Norwegian philosopher; and this reading of Spinoza by Deleuze lends itself to a radical ecological ethic. As Robert Hurley says in his introduction, "Deleuze opens us to the idea that the elements of the different individuals we compose may be nonhuman within us. One wonders, finally, whether Man might be defined as a territory, a set of boundaries, a limit on existence." Gilles Deleuze, known for his inquiries into desire, language, politics, and power, finds a kinship between Spinoza and Nietzsche. He writes, ""Spinoza did not believe in hope or even in courage; he believed only in joy and in vision . . . he more than any other gave me the feeling of a gust of air from behind each time I read him, of a witch's broom that he makes one mount. Gilles Deleuze was a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris at Vincennes. Robert Hurley is the translator of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality.

☆北京大学艺术学院教授丁宁作序推荐，“《审美教育书简》充满了诗与思的奇光异彩”
☆王国维、蔡元培、朱光潜、宗白华、李泽厚，众多大师一致推崇的必读之书
☆断版多年，经典重现，塑造美学进程的里程碑之作
☆在时代的喧嚣市场上，不是粗野，就是懒散唯有通过审美教育，来恢复我们天性中的完整
☆冯至、范大灿经典译本，译者在每封信前增加内容提要，帮助读者更好理解
☆精美优雅装帧，封面采用手揉纸，内文裸脊索线，体现复古的设计风格
《审美教育书简》是1793—1794年间席勒写给丹麦奥古斯滕堡公爵的27封信。在法国大革命背景下，席勒以康德的原则为依据，深刻分析了人的感性与理性同审美与艺术的关系，认为人类发展的道路是从被感性支配的自然人走向精神能控制物质的理性人，只有当两种冲动同时发展，人才有自由，而美能将二者连结、统一起来。席勒以美学为依托，思考了人性完善和社会改良的途径，照见其对人类命运的深刻关怀。
席勒十分重视本书，称其为“一生中所做的最好的事情”。本书是德国哲学史上最重要的著作之一，发人深省，历久弥新。
自文艺复兴以后，文艺、美术盛行。及十八世纪，经包姆加敦与康德之研究，而美学成立。经席勒详论美育之作用，而美育之标识，始彰明较著矣。
——蔡元培
席勒想从“美的教育”（入手），使堕落的分裂的近代人生重新恢复它的全部与和谐，使近代科学经济的文明，进展入优美自由的艺术文化，如古希腊与文艺复兴时代。
——宗白华
如果从美学角度看，并不是如下许多人所套用的公式：康德——黑格尔——马克思，而应该是：康德——席勒——马克思。
——李泽厚
席勒的最主要的美学著作《审美教育书简》是他的美学思想最集中最有系统的表现。……《审美教育书简》对德国古典美学的发展起过重要的作用，它形成了由康德的主观唯心主义转到黑格尔的客观唯心主义之间的桥梁。
——朱光潜
《审美教育书简》充满了诗与思的奇光异彩，比那些一味偏于理性思辨的美学专著具有更为明显的可读性，可以让读者开卷即有益，随意浏览，在警句迭出的字里行间获得绵绵不断的启迪。
——丁宁

这项详细而严谨的研究针对的是学界围绕海德格尔产生的困惑。希恩穿透了与“存在”问题相关的种种模糊思想，揭示出“前期”与“后期”海德格尔的现象学基础，尤其关注他对亚里士多德的继承与超越。希恩的论点就其核心而言是有说服力的：他认为，对存在的痴迷掩盖了如下事实，即海德格尔整个计划的中心乃是“澄明之境”，而“存在”于“澄明之境”中发生。……总而言之，这是一项必不可少的研究。
——《选择》
希恩的作品令人钦佩地展示出海德格尔如何给亚里士多德、柏拉图和苏格拉底前的古希腊哲学家注入生命，并由此汲取自己的哲学灵感。这部作品是对海德格尔研究的有益补充，值得一读。
——《形而上学评论》
近几十年关于海德格尔最重要的作品。
——迈克尔·E. 齐默尔曼，科罗拉多大学哲学教授
《理解海德格尔》是对海德格尔复杂艰涩的全集作品的全新解读。本书论述清晰，严谨地植根于海德格尔的全部著作，论证了其思想的严格统一，提出了三个主要论点：海德格尔的工作从始至终都是现象学的；“存在”意指事物在人类关切的世界中的意义显现；使这种可理知性得以可能的是人的实存论结构，即“开抛”或本有的“澄明之境”。
希恩为过去半个世纪主导海德格尔研究的经典范式提供了一种令人信服的替代方案，同时，他对海德格尔的关键术语进行了有价值的重新翻译。这部重要的著作开辟了海德格尔研究的新道路，不仅将激发海德格尔研究内部的对话，而且将引起与现象学传统之外的哲学家以及神学、文学批评、存在主义精神病学领域的学者的对话。