A Survey of Metaphysics provides a systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The conception of metaphysics underlying the book is the fairly traditional and widely-shared one that metaphysics deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of reality as a whole. The book is divided into six main parts, each relatively self-contained, focusing in turn on the following major themes: identity and change, necessity and essence, causation, agency and events, space and time, and universals and particulars. In an introductory chapter, the conception of metaphysics underlying the book is explained and defended against the many and varied opponents of metaphysics those students are likely to encounter. While the book makes reference when necessary to the history of metaphysics, its emphasis is on contemporary views and issues. The author's approach is not narrowly partisan, but avoids bland neutrality in matters of controversy.

A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophical systems of Hegel and Heidegger within the space of negativity, Giorgio Agamben offers a rigorous reading of numerous philosophical and poetic works to examine how these issues have been traditionally explored. Agamben argues that the human being is not just “speaking” and “mortal” but irreducibly “social” and “ethical.” Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is the author of Means without End (2000), Stanzas (1993), and The Coming Community (1993), all published by the University of Minnesota Press. Karen E. Pinkus is professor of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. Michael Hardt is professor of literature and romance studies at Duke University.

★文化理论家斯蒂格勒论艺术、人与个体化：音乐、能意灵魂与器官学谱系。
★深入探讨当代社会的参与丧失与个体化丧失的问题：超工业力比多经济与象征的贫困。
★在超工业资本主义社会中，呼吁一种对抗象征的贫困的斗争：以感性为前线的一场美学战争。
“从此以后，音乐无处不在：音乐厅、剧院、礼拜场所，而且还有电视、商业场所、公共场所、机场、海滩和滑雪跑道。”
“我这里所说的精神与自身的对抗，它既是美学的，也是经济的、政治的、司法的、行政的、科学的、技术的和工业的——更不必说构成其起源的神学资产，一个不可避免的起源。”
在这部作品中，法国文化理论家、哲学家斯蒂格勒介绍了普通器官学和感性谱系的计划，并且继续思考前作中关于力比多经济的研究，即超工业资本主义所固有的力比多经济。这一研究主要通过艺术问题来进行，作为对形形色色的崇高化经济的清算。我们时代的特点是工业技术对象征的把持，美学已成为经济战争的武器和舞台，由此产生了一种贫困，其中制约条件代替了人生经验。因此，一方面，我们必须了解导致当今时代特殊性的历史趋势；另一方面，我们也必须了解武器，使问题网络成为一个概念库，以此进行一场美学的战争。
本书是斯蒂格勒《象征的贫困》的第二部，它将引起电影研究、媒体和文化研究、文学和哲学界读者的特别兴趣，并将巩固斯蒂格勒作为当代别具慧眼的文化理论家之声誉。

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★深受吉尔·德勒兹、菲利克斯·加塔利、贝尔纳·斯蒂格勒、布鲁诺·拉图尔推崇的哲学家——吉尔伯特·西蒙东首部正式出版的中译本。
★在其哲学名著《个体及其物理—生物起源》中，西蒙东自问：“心理与生命是如何彼此相互区分的呢？”为求其解，他感到有必要首先回顾动物与人的生命观念。在本书中，西蒙东就生命、动物与人的生命之间的统一性，还有生命与智性、习惯、本能之间的关系提出了问题，为我们呈现了古往今来的思想家如何对此展开思考。
★动物与人的关系是什么？苏格拉底会说：人类理性与动物本能之间存在本质差别。柏拉图会说：人是一切动物的原型，动物是低等级的人。笛卡尔会说：动物既无智性亦无本能，它是一台机器、一种自动之物。西蒙东则会回答：动物与人之间并没有本质区别，一切都是存在，我们每一次都必须以特定的方式思考存在的意义。
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本书脱胎于吉尔伯特·西蒙东两次课程的讲稿，主要探讨动物与人的关系问题。这虽然算不上哲学的根本问题，却一再闪现于古往今来诸多哲学巨擘的思想图景之中。在书中，西蒙东为我们梳理了该问题从古希腊罗马时期一直到17世纪的简明历史。他不仅论及了苏格拉底、柏拉图、亚里士多德和笛卡尔等哲学史上最重要人物的相关思想，还谈到了许多不常被哲学家们触探的作者，如亚西西的圣方济各、蒙田、博须埃和拉封丹等人的相关著述。西蒙东没有执着于将诸学说的论述推至艰深晦涩的抽象层面，而是从观念的历史维度切入，清晰地为我们呈现了不同流派的学说对该问题的提出与解决而做的贡献。从中，我们可以看到，动物与人的关系问题不仅牵涉认识论的维度，还广泛地包括了伦理，甚至宗教，以及最终的形而上学的维度。

★ 科学史、科学哲学、科学人类学领域必读书目，时隔12年修订再版
★ 我们真的从未现代过，现代性不过是一种信仰
★ 模糊科学、人文与社会科学的边界，重塑我们的精神图景
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★河流污染、冷冻胚胎、艾滋病病毒、臭氧层空洞……这些侵入我们世界的奇怪之“物”是自然还是文化的一部分？我们要如何理解它们？
★作为现代人，我们相信随着科学的兴起，世界已经发生了不可逆转的改变，这种改变进而将我们与原始的、前现代的先辈们分割开来。然而，如果我们放下此种执念，世界将会变成什么样子？
★现代意味着什么？成为一个现代人又意味着什么？一部在当前关于现代性、反现代性、后现代性的争论中无法绕开的著作，一次对现代性本身之定义和构成的深刻反思，一种对科学的全新解读。
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本书颇具原创性地介入了当前关于现代性、反现代性、后现代性的争论之中，作者认为，这些争论都深陷于现代性所奠基的二元对立（主体与客体、自然与文化、人类与非人类……）的错误之中，并割裂了时间。我们的“现代”社会从来没有按照支撑其世界表征系统的宏大分界来运作：一方面是自然，另一方面是文化，两者根本对立。事实上，现代人在实践中从来没有停止过制造杂合体，那些既属于自然又属于文化之物。在此意义上，拉图尔的这本科学人类学著作告诉我们，我们真的从未现代过，现代性在很大程度上不过是一种信仰。
基于此，拉图尔独具匠心地以“科学论”的工作为基础建构出一种不同于后现代主义的“非现代”立场，并发展出一种对称的人类学。他力图在实践中将人类与非人类这对范畴联结起来，打破自然与历史之间的割裂和前现代、现代与后现代之间的分裂，并试图通过组建拟客体，重构作者所谓的“现代制度”。本书模糊了科学、人文与社会科学之间的边界，推进了人们对三者的理解，这无异于重塑我们的精神图景。
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如果您喜欢一种反二元论式的哲学讨论，如果您想打破诸如主体与客体、心灵与身体、语言与事实之间的分裂，那么您肯定会喜欢上拉图尔……目前而言，在打破制造与发现、自然与历史之间的割裂以及前现代、现代和后现代之间的分裂上，拉图尔的工作是最出色的。
——理查德•罗蒂
在当前有关现代性、反现代性和后现代性等的争论中，[拉图尔]无疑占据了一个非常重要且颇具原创性的位置。他一方面致力于在实践中将人类与非人类这对范畴联结起来，另一方面又对康德、黑格尔、巴什拉、哈贝马斯、鲍德里亚、利奥塔和海德格尔等思想家进行简略的评价，这都使当下的争论内容更加丰富、程度更加热烈。
——安德鲁•皮克林
这是一本有关形而上学和政治本体论的著作。拉图尔的目标是打破自然、权力、语言之类的哲学范畴。书中远见卓识俯拾皆是，从他对多元自然主义（相对于多元文化主义）的倡导到对社会理论家承认客体之历史性的呼吁，不一而足。这是一本奇妙的著作，它与科学史和科学哲学领域中自缚手脚的奉承之作针锋相对、分道扬镳，给人以耳目一新之感。这本书读起来颇有难度，但对那些具有哲学智慧者而言却是一个奖赏，值得一读。
——罗布特•N. 普罗克特
这本书针对当代与“现代主义”这一观念的各类问题，进行了一次既异彩纷呈、深思熟虑又囊括无遗的集中展示。书中集中关注了三个相互关联的重要领域：科学与技术、政治与政府、语言学与符号学研究。拉图尔在考察前现代主义者、后现代主义者、反现代主义者以及所谓的现代主义者的基础上，得出结论：我们真的从未现代过，如其所述，一种祛除了其诸多有害特质之后的现代主义，才是值得我们追求的。
——《选择》

《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》是法国当代著名哲学家、社会学家、人类学家布鲁诺·拉图尔于1999年推出的一部政治生态学著作，全书从自然、政治和科学三大领域，探讨我们能用政治生态学做什么的问题。该书赓续拉图尔之前著作的思路与特色，在该书中力图为政治生态学（不是作为学科，而是作为生态政治运动的“绿色运动”）设计新的理论建模，开辟新的科学社会学途径与思考空间，是一部不同于寻常悲天悯人的生态忧思录。

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the scientific method make? The difference, Latour explains, is in our careful distinctions between nature and society, between human and thing, distinctions that our benighted ancestors, in their world of alchemy, astrology, and phrenology, never made. But alongside this purifying practice that defines modernity, there exists another seemingly contrary one: the construction of systems that mix politics, science, technology, and nature. The ozone debate is such a hybrid, in Latour's analysis, as are global warming, deforestation, even the idea of black holes. As these hybrids proliferate, the prospect of keeping nature and culture in their separate mental chambers becomes overwhelming--and rather than try, Latour suggests, we should rethink our distinctions, rethink the definition and constitution of modernity itself. His book offers a new explanation of science that finally recognizes the connections between nature and culture--and so, between our culture and others, past and present. Nothing short of a reworking of our mental landscape. "We Have Never Been Modern" blurs the boundaries among science, the humanities, and the social sciences to enhance understanding on all sides. A summation of the work of one of the most influential and provocative interpreters of science, it aims at saving what is good and valuable in modernity and replacing the rest with a broader, fairer, and finer sense of possibility.

Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers, sociologists and historians of science. In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding of scientific activity. Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action: the role of scientific literature, the activities of laboratories, the institutional context of science in the modern world, and the means by which inventions and discoveries become accepted. From the study of scientific practice he develops an analysis of science as the building of networks. Throughout, Bruno Latour shows how a lively and realistic picture of science in action alters our conception of not only the natural sciences but also the social sciences and the sociology of knowledge in general. This stimulating book, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide range of scientific activities, will interest all philosophers, sociologists and historians of science, scientists and engineers, and students of the philosophy of social science and the sociology of knowledge.

《实践感》是布迪厄的最重要著作。通过对卡比利亚(阿尔及利亚)柏柏尔人社会的观察和研究,作者反思自身的社会学实践,揭示并分析了实践逻辑与学术性思维的差异,指出人类学研究要成为真正的科学,就必须对科学实践和行为和工具,对研究者与其对象的关系实施客观化。该书有助于读者全面了解作者的学术思想及其在社会学理论认识和科学实践方面创立的一系列概念。
《实践感》是布迪厄的最重要著作。通过对卡比利亚(阿尔及利亚)柏柏尔人社会的观察和研究,作者反思自身的社会学实践,揭示并分析了实践逻辑与学术性思维的差异,指出人类学研究要成为真正的科学,就必须对科学实践和行为和工具,对研究者与其对象的关系实施客观化。该书有助于读者全面了解作者的学术思想及其在社会学理论认识和科学实践方面创立的一系列概念。

Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object of study is a particular instance of the relationship between knowing and doing, interpreting and using, symbolic mastery and practical mastery--or between logical logic, armed with all the accumulated instruments of objectification, and the universally pre-logical logic of practice. In this, his fullest statement of a theory of practice, Bourdieu both sets out what might be involved in incorporating one's own standpoint into an investigation and develops his understanding of the powers inherent in the second member of many oppositional pairs--that is, he explicates how the practical concerns of daily life condition the transmission and functioning of social or cultural forms. The first part of the book, "Critique of Theoretical Reason," covers more general questions, such as the objectivization of the generic relationship between social scientific observers and their objects of study, the need to overcome the gulf between subjectivism and objectivism, the interplay between structure and practice (a phenomenon Bourdieu describes via his concept of the "habitus), the place of the body, the manipulation of time, varieties of symbolic capital, and modes of domination. The second part of the book, "Practical Logics," develops detailed case studies based on Bourdieu's ethnographic fieldwork in Algeria. These examples touch on kinship patterns, the social construction of domestic space, social categories of perception and classification, and ritualized actions and exchanges. This book develops in full detail the theoretical positions sketched in Bourdieu's "Outline of a Theory of Practice. It will be especially useful to readers seeking to grasp the subtle concepts central to Bourdieu's theory, to theorists interested in his points of departure from structuralism (especially fom Levi-Strauss), and to critics eager to understand what role his theory gives to human agency. It also reveals Bourdieu to be an anthropological theorist of considerable originality and power.

Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social' as used by Social Scientists has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become a misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stabilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as 'wooden' or 'steely'. Rather than simply indicating what is already assembled together, it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling: and a type of material, distinct from others. Latour shows why 'the social' cannot be thought of as a kind of material or domain, and disputes attempts to provide a 'social explanation' of other states of affairs. While these attempts have been productive (and probably necessary) in the past, the very success of the social sciences mean that they are largely no longer so. At the present stage it is no longer possible to inspect the precise constituents entering the social domain. Latour returns to the original meaning of 'the social' to redefine the notion and allow it to trace connections again. It will then be possible to resume the traditional goal of the social sciences, but using more refined tools. Drawing on his extensive work examining the 'assemblages' of nature, Latour finds it necessary to scrutinize thoroughly the exact content of what is assembled under the umbrella of Society. This approach, a 'sociology of associations' has become known as Actor-Network-Theory, and this book is an essential introduction both for those seeking to understand Actor-Network-Theory, or the ideas of one of its most influential proponents.

The essential work on Proust--now in paperback In a remarkable instance of literary and philosophical interpretation, the incomparable Gilles Deleuze reads Marcel Proust's work as a narrative of an apprenticeship--more precisely, the apprenticeship of a man of letters. Considering the search to be one directed by an experience of signs, in which the protagonist learns to interpret and decode the kinds and types of symbols that surround him, Deleuze conducts us on a corollary search--one that leads to a new understanding of the signs that constitute A la recherche du temps perdu. In Richard Howard's graceful translation, augmented with an essay that Deleuze added to a later French edition, Proust and Signs is the complete English version of this work. Admired as an imaginative and innovative study of Proust and as one of Deleuze's more accessible works, Proust and Signs stands as the writer's most sustained attempt to understand and explain the work of art.

The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, what in his last writing he called simply "a life." They capture a problem that runs throughout his work--his long search for a new and superior empiricism. Announced in his first book, on David Hume, then taking off with his early studies of Nietzsche and Bergson, the problem of an "empiricist conversion" became central to Deleuze's work, in particular to his aesthetics and his conception of the art of cinema. In the new regime of communication and information-machines with which he thought we are confronted today, he came to believe that such a conversion, such an empiricism, such a new art and will-to-art, was what we need most. The last, seemingly minor question of "a life" is thus inseparable from Deleuze's striking image of philosophy not as a wisdom we already possess, but as a pure immanence of what is yet to come. Perhaps the full exploitation of that image, from one of the most original trajectories in contemporary philosophy, is also yet to come.

★★ 利奥塔重磅力作首度中译 ★★
★★ 以后现代的“异识”抵御宏大叙事的“共识” ★★
★★ 新颖的写作方式和风格，领略后现代思潮的深度和魅力 ★★
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德国人是否用过毒气室来杀害犹太人？
——若要回答“是”，那就得有活生生的证人，证明自己死于毒气室。然而，若我们找不到这样的人，那毒气室就纯属虚构吗？
★ 法国后现代思想家利奥塔重磅力作
——从批判上述诡辩出发，展开对语言、权力和人性的思考；提出“异识”概念，质疑最终将导向宏大叙事的“共识”，极具鲜明的后现代人文主义色彩。
★ 欧陆传统与分析潮流的实验性结合
——将维特根斯坦的语言哲学融入康德式的历史理性批判中；融合西方哲学史上诸多重要思想家的学说或关键概念，通过创造性转换，重新激活经典思想。
★ 完整呈现后现代派的伦理政治纵深
——这本颇具零度写作风格的作品，有力回击了以“事实”“真理”之名来重塑历史的修正主义，强调了生存的独特性和个体叙事的尊严。
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本书是利奥塔历时九年（1974—1983）完成的他自认为极具复杂性和哲学性的文本。在这个时期，利奥塔同时写作了《后现代状况》和《正义游戏》，本书延续和发展了这两个早一点的文本中对语言游戏的讨论，产生了一个更具包容性的短语哲学，并且比它们更为深入地思考了当代知识、伦理、艺术和政治的问题。
本书涉猎广泛，包含了对大屠杀、现代性、伦理、历史和政治的分析，所有这些主题都与他的异识观点联系在一起。他强调了某些组成短语的方式被主流的话语类型禁声或排挤。本书为利奥塔后期的作品提供了理论根基，在人文学科中具有巨大的影响。这是任何严肃对待利奥塔作品的批评家无法绕过的一个中心文本。
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通过《异识》，利奥塔为我们提供了他所谓的“哲学书”。……他独自承担自己的风险，大胆地开始了一项巨大的事业：使哲学与我们的时代同步。
——《世界报》
利奥塔的这本书可以从三个不同方面来认识：作为一个哲学作品的构建阶段；作为对一个当代问题的认识；作为描述当今知识状况的尝试。在现实中，这三个方面显然是联系在一起的，利奥塔的思想一直有一个优势，那就是希望把自己介入他和他的读者所处的环境中。
——《文学半月谈》

Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge-are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of 'things said' and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal.
[combination of two works: "L'archéologie du savoir" 1969 & "L'ordre du discours" 1971 ("The Discourse on Language" as appendix pp. 215-37)]

A collection of five essays of French philosopher Nancy, originally published in 1985-86: The Inoperative Community, Myth Interpreted, Literary Communism, Shattered Love, and Of Divine Places. A paper edition (1924-7) is available for $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

First published in 1967, "Writing and Difference, " a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportely nontraditional currents of modern thought - one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic modes.

In Kafka Deleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditional readings that see in Kafka's work a case of Oedipalized neurosis or a flight into transcendence, guilt, and subjectivity, Deleuze and Guattari make a case for Kafka as a man of joy, a promoter of radical politics who resisted at every turn submission to frozen hierarchies.

Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history.
Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.