Stanley Rosen

استنلی روزن در این اثر با پیش نهادن تفسیری یگانه از پویسیس در افق فلسفۀ افلاطونی می کوشد هرگونه جهد فلسفی در جهت پاسخ دادن به مسایل بنیادین تاریخ فلسفه را نوعی برساختۀ نظری و در نهایت نوعی شعر قلمداد کند. زندگانی انسانی در تمامیت خود آمیزه ای از طرح مسایل بنیادین فلسفی و کوشش در جهت پاسخ دادن به آن ها است. ریشۀ این مسایل بنیادین، یعنی زمینه ای که این مسایل برای نخست بار در آن به دید آدمی در می آیند، زندگانی روزمره است. اما هرگونه کوششی در جهت پاسخ دادن به این پرسش ها، که ریشه در زندگانی پیشانظری دارند، مستلزم اتخاذ نوعی زندگانی نظری است. به سخن دیگر زندگانی نظرورزانه واکنشی به حیرت برخاسته از زندگانی پیشانظری است. هردوی این انواع زندگانی در کلیت خود به نوعی شاعرانگی، یا پیروزمندی شعر بر فلسفه، و سرانجام نیهیلیسم فلسفی می انجامند. اثر پیش رو کوششی است در جهت پی گیری این ستیز در ادوار گوناگون و به نزد اندیشمندان بزرگ تاریخ فلسفه از افلاطون تا هایدگر.

"In this innovative reimagining of Plato's work, Badiou has removed all references specfic to ancient Greek society--from lengthy exchanges about moral courage in archaic poetry to political considerations mainly of interest to the aristocratic elite and has expanded the range of cultural references. Here, philosophy is firing on all cylinders: Socrates and his companions are joined by Beckett, Pessoa, Freud, and Hegel, among others. Together these thinkers demonstrate that true philosophy endures, ready to absorb new horizons without changing its essence."--Provided by publisher.

"Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st-century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic." "Broad in sweep and empirical detail, this volume will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary China, as well as those interested in the dynamics of political and social change."--BOOK JACKET.

"Ying Zhu and Stanley Rosen have brought together some of the leading scholars and critics of Chinese cinema to rethink the political mutations, market manifestations, and artistic innovations that have punctuated a century of Chinese screen memories. From animation to documentary, history of the industry to cinematic attempts to recreate history, propaganda to piracy, the influx of Hollywood imports to Chinese-style blockbusters, Art, Politics, and Commerce in Chinese Cinema presents a fresh set of critical approaches to the field that should be required reading for scholars, students, and anyone interested in the past, present, and future of one of the most vibrant and dynamic film industries in the world."-Michael Berry, author, Jia Zhangke's "Hometown Trilogy" and A History of Pain. "An excellent collection of articles that together offer a superb introduction to contemporary Chinese film studies."-Richard Pena, Program Director, Film Society of Lincoln Center. "This is one of the most important, comprehensive, and profoundly important books about Chinese cinema. As correctly pointed out by the editors of the volume, understanding of the emerging film industry in China requires a systematic examination of arts, politics, and commerce of Chinese cinema. By organizing the inquiry of the Chinese film industry around its local and global market, politics, and film art, the authors place the current transformation of Chinese cinema within a large framework. The book has set a new standard for research on Chinese cinema. It is a must-read for students of arts, culture, and politics in China."-Tianjian Shi, Duke University. Art politics, and commerce are intertwined everywhere, but in China the interplay is explicit, intimate, and elemental, and nowhere more so than in the film industry. Understanding this interplay in the era of market reform and globalization is essential to understanding mainland Chinese cinema. This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Chinese cinema, surveying the evolution of film production and consumption in mainland China as a product of shifting relations between art, politics, and commerce. Within these arenas, each of the twelve chapters treats a particular history, development, genre, filmmaker or generation of filmmakers, adding up to a distinctively comprehensive rendering of Chinese cinema. The book illuminates China's changing stat-society relations, the trajectory of marketization and globalization, the effects of China's start historical shifts, Hollywood's role, the role of nationalism, and related themes of interest to scholars of Asian studies, cinema and media studies, political science, sociology comparative literature and Chinese language. Ying Zhu is professor of cinema studies in the Department of Media Culture and co-coordinator of the Modern China Studies Program at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Stanley Rosen is director of the East Asian Studies Center and a professor of political science at the University of Southern California. --Book Jacket.