Beyond Belief collects fifteen celebrated, broadly ranging essays in which Robert Bellah interprets the interplay of religion and society in concrete contexts from Japan to the Middle East to the United States. First published in 1970, Beyond Belief is a classic in the field of sociology of religion.

This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole; of religion and nation; and of the constant struggle to create a world of virtue and prosperity in equal measure. Islam is an Arab rel...(展开全部)

What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book. From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', On Belief gets behind the contours of the way we normally think...(展开全部)

From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', On Belief gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, in particular Judaism and Christianity. Holding up the so-called authenticity of religious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse for b...(展开全部)

This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, and Don DeLillo, Wood relates their fiction to questions of re...(展开全部)

关于作者 詹姆斯·伍德（James Wood），1965年生，英国批评家、散文家、小说家，曾任《卫报》首席文学批评家、《新共和》资深编辑，现为《纽约客》专栏作家、哈佛大学文学教授，著有《破格》（1999）、《忤逆上帝之书》（2004）、《不负责任的自我》（2004）、《 小说机杼》（2009）、《私货》（2013）、《最接近生活的事物》（2015）。 关于译者 黄远帆，上海外国语大学比较文学和世界文学系文学硕士。译有《小说机杼》、《破格》、《每个爱情故事都是鬼故事：大卫·福斯特·华莱士传》等。

This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, and Don DeLillo, Wood relates their fiction to questions of re...(展开全部)

关于作者 詹姆斯·伍德（James Wood），1965年生，英国批评家、散文家、小说家，曾任《卫报》首席文学批评家、《新共和》资深编辑，现为《纽约客》专栏作家、哈佛大学文学教授，著有《破格》（1999）、《忤逆上帝之书》（2004）、《不负责任的自我》（2004）、《 小说机杼》（2009）、《私货》（2013）、《最接近生活的事物》（2015）。 关于译者 黄远帆，上海外国语大学比较文学和世界文学系文学硕士。译有《小说机杼》、《破格》、《每个爱情故事都是鬼故事：大卫·福斯特·华莱士传》等。

Epistemic norms play an increasingly important role in many current debates in epistemology and beyond. Paramount among these are debates about belief, action, and assertion. Three primary questions organize the literature. What epistemic requirements constrain appropriate belief? What epistemic requirements constrain appropriate assertion? What epistemic requirements constrain...(展开全部)

Refusing the digital world of late capitalism In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digital age’ is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the...(展开全部)