In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations—torture—J. M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on our experience of suffering itself. Morals, Bernstein argues, not only guide our conduct but also express the depth of mutual dependence that we share as vulnerable and injurable individuals.Beginning with the attempts to ...

Em A força da não violência, Judith Butler percorre discussões da filosofia, da ciência política e da psicanálise para reavaliar o que chamamos de violência e não violência e o modo como essas duas expressões se tornam intercambiáveis quando colocadas a serviço, por exemplo, de uma perspectiva individualista das relações sociais ou de um Estado no exercício do biopoder. A obra, lançada originalmente em 2020, mostra como a ética da não violência deve estar conectada a uma luta política mais...

Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, make existing power relations at once self-evident and opaque, and blur the possibility of reimagining them differently. Political Concepts seeks to revive our common political vocabulary—both eve...

On Jean Améry provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. In the English-speaking world Améry is known for his poignant publication, At the Mind's Limits, a narrative of exile, dispossession, torture, and Auschwitz. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in Améry's writings on victimization and resentment, partly attributable to...

The life and public service of Ohio’s transformative governorThis first full-length biography of John Joyce Gilligan argues that Ohio’s sixty-second governor was the most significant Democrat in the state’s postwar years. But it is more than the story of a governor. Through painstaking research and dozens of interviews, author Mark Bernstein paints a vivid picture of Ohio’s past and its prospects for the future that includes an array of lesser politicians— some of ...

First published in 1928, Colour in Art and Daily Life presents a series of fascinating essays analysing and expounding the beauty of colours, their relationship to one another and to line, surface and form. For the layman, as for the art student, there is set forth in this book the knowledge that will not only enrich her understanding of the great masters of painting but will also educate her taste in the appreciation of colour in everyday life.

This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar’s thought. The result is a hybrid lexicon-engagement that makes clear the depth and importance of Balibar’s contribution to the most urgent topics in contemporary thought.The book shows the continuin...

──如果只能讀一本投資書，這本就夠了！──美國最大共同基金公司先鋒集團創辦人、指數化投資教父約翰．柏格（John C. Bogle）投資學經典《漫步華爾街》作者伯頓‧墨基爾（Burton G. Malkiel）等人力薦亞馬遜書店理財暢銷榜二十年長踞不墜，中文版累銷超過六萬冊備受讚譽的指數化投資殿堂級教本．大幅改寫新譯版以當代角度重新剖析投資四大支柱──「理論」、「歷史」、「心理學」、「產業」並提出適合各年齡段、各類型投資人的具體策略建議從入門到資深的當代投資人都該讀、讓你少走冤枉路的絕佳好書財經作家、「綠角財經筆記」站長　綠角　專文導讀推薦──「投資界有一位我最重視的專家，他寫的每本書、每篇文章、每場訪談，我都會閱讀與追蹤，那就是本書作者威廉．伯恩斯坦。　　威廉．伯恩斯坦值得關注的理由並不是因為他可以準確預知市場何時即將大跌，下一支飆股為何，而是因為他講的都是有憑有據的投資原則。《投資金律》是他所有著作中最知名的一本，自20...

★★★《投資金律》作者威廉．伯恩斯坦最新力作★★★★★★《紐約書評》、《華盛頓郵報》、《泰晤士報》等各大媒體齊聲讚譽★★★★★★市場陷入狂熱，擦鞋童效應再現的時代，理性投資人必讀！★★★我們為何總是盲目追隨眾人的關注焦點，做著一夜致富的美夢？網路泡沫、安隆醜聞、次級房貸泡沫……這些眾人趨之若鶩的投資熱潮，為何總在泡沫破滅後才看出問題？剖析人類史上永不根絕的集體狂熱之根源！如果你讀過查爾斯．麥凱的鉅著《異常流行幻象與群眾瘋狂》，那你更不能錯過威廉．伯恩斯坦的最新力作──《群眾的幻覺》。◎「群眾的幻覺」是什麼？1842年，蘇格蘭作家查爾斯．麥凱寫出了一本驚世鉅作《異常流行幻象與群眾瘋狂》，收錄令人難以置信，但當下深陷其中的人卻毫不懷疑的各種流行亂象。書中廣泛的探討了金融泡沫、宗教狂熱、集體瘋狂以及對未來的妄想...

The classic guide to constructing a solid portfolio―without a financial advisor!First published two decades ago, The Four Pillars of Investing has been the go-to resource for an entire generation of investors. This updated edition of the investing classic provides the foundational knowledge you need to avoid the most common pitfalls and build a portfolio in today’s roller-coaster world of investing.Retired neurologist and master investor William J....

A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization.How did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Birth of Plenty, traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controv...

The groundbreaking classic of twentieth-century German philosophy now available in English—with an introduction by J.M. Bernstein.Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human, draws on phenomenological, biological, and social scientific sources to offer a systematic account of nature, life, and human existence. The book considers non-living nature, plants, non-human animals, and human beings a sequence of increasingly complex modes of boundary dy...