This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which the book takes its title and five shorter essays that are internally related to "Being Singular Plural." One of the strongest strands in Nancy's philosophy is his attempt to rethink community and the very idea of the social in a way that does not ground these ideas in some individual subject or subjectivity. The fundamental argument of the book is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence. Nancy thinks of this "being-with" not as a comfortable enclosure in a pre-existing group, but as a mutual abandonment and exposure to each other, one that would preserve the "I" and its freedom in a mode of imagining community as neither a "society of spectacle" nor via some form of authenticity. The five shorter essays impressively translate the philosophical insight of "Being Singular Plural" into sophisticated discussions of national sovereignty, war and technology, identity politics, the Gulf War, and the tragic plight of Sarajevo. The essay "Eulogy for the Melee," in particular, is a brilliant discussion of identity and hybridism that resonates with many contemporary social concerns. As Nancy moves through the exposition of his central concern, being-with, he engages a number of other important issues, including current notions of the "other" and "self" that are relevant to psychoanalytic, political, and multicultural concepts. He also offers astonishingly original reinterpretations of major philosophical positions, such as Nietzsche's doctrine of "eternal recurrence," Descartes's "cogito," and the nature of language and meaning.

《如光影常在》是人气画家张小溪费时六年创作的一本时尚型录。她选择、搭配每套服装，借助摄影与插画这两种形式，在真实与创作的有趣对比之间，呈现了她对艺术与人生的感悟，以及一段光与影交织的成长之旅。 在这本书里，有她对各种色彩，从简约的黑白灰到充满生命力的强烈色彩的理解；有她对最偏爱的艺术史上的最好时光的讲述；有她对节气、佛道、鹤、禅与诗等东方元素的演绎；有她对海魂衫、机车夹克、俄罗斯头巾、波尔卡圆点等各种流行的服装风格及其文化的解读；还有她对童年、校园生活的回忆。而串联起这些零碎的片段的，便是那一张张照片与插画，相互对应，赋予了穿着搭配梦幻般的缤纷意境。