The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these vi...(展开全部)

Technological progress has fundamentally altered how humanity lives. When we were foragers, food was scarce. During the Agrarian Age, it was land. Following the Industrial Revolution, capital became scarce. Now, digital technologies have shifted scarcity from capital to attention. Previous shifts have been marked by major crises including wars, famines and pandemics; our curren...(展开全部)

Technological progress has fundamentally altered how humanity lives. When we were foragers, food was scarce. During the Agrarian Age, it was land. Following the Industrial Revolution, capital became scarce. Now, digital technologies have shifted scarcity from capital to attention. Previous shifts have been marked by major crises including wars, famines and pandemics; our curren...(展开全部)

雅克·朗西埃（Jacques Rancière，1940－），法国哲学家、社会学家，现为巴黎第八大学哲学荣誉教授，著有《电影的寓言》《电影的间距》《美感论》等。 关于译者 尉光吉，中国人民大学哲学院博士研究生，译有《素描的愉悦》《内在体验》《无尽的谈话》《艺术与诸众》等 。

雅克·朗西埃（Jacques Rancière，1940－），法国哲学家、社会学家，现为巴黎第八大学哲学荣誉教授，著有《电影的寓言》《电影的间距》《美感论》等。 关于译者 尉光吉，中国人民大学哲学院博士研究生，译有《素描的愉悦》《内在体验》《无尽的谈话》《艺术与诸众》等 。

This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. Comparison was Eurocentric by exclusion when it applied only to European literature, and Eurocentric by discrimination when it adapted ev...(展开全部)

This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. Comparison was Eurocentric by exclusion when it applied only to European literature, and Eurocentric by discrimination when it adapted ev...(展开全部)

A memorable and compelling photographic record from the Islamic world of today. On September 11, 2001, the photographer Abbas watched the World Trade Center towers fall in New York—live on Siberian TV. It spurred him to begin a journey through the Islamic world that would last seven years. The photographs published here are the final result of that project. Born in Iran, Abbas ...(展开全部)

In recent years, environmental and human rights advocates have suggested that we have entered the first new geological epoch since the end of the ice age: the Anthropocene. In this new epoch, humans have come to reshape unwittingly both the climate and natural world; humankind has caused mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted the oceans, and irreversibly altered...(展开全部)