【作者简介】 【美】奎迈• 安东尼•阿皮亚是美国国家人文奖、普林斯顿大学人文科学特殊成就奖以及美国对外关系委员会亚瑟•罗斯图书奖、布兰迪斯大学新近设立的约瑟夫•B.与托比•吉特勒奖等重要学术奖项的获得者，他是美国笔会主席，又是劳伦斯•S.洛克菲勒大学的哲学教授和普林斯顿大学人类价值中心的哲学教授。他的著述包括：《世界主义》、《荣誉法则》、《在父亲的房子里：文化哲学里的非洲》、《神思：当代哲学导论》、《身份认同之伦理学》等。 【译者简介】 苗华建，供职于北京外国语大学日本学研究中心，迄今翻译作品十余部，代表性作品有《荣誉法则》、《信息崇拜》、《天空中的圆周率》、《淑女与熊猫》等。

This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the 4th century, as a means of understanding the complex world of today. Arguing that we concentrate too much on what makes us different rather than recognising our common h...(展开全部)

“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Kwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine , challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations . Reviving the ancient philosophy of “cosmopolitanism,” a school of ...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Product Description In traditional human societies, the stranger was a threat, to be disarmed at once by an act of force or by a ritual of hospitality. Under no conditions could a stranger be ignored or taken for granted. Yet in all great cities today, human beings seem to live out their entire lives in "a world of strangers." How did it become possible for mi...(展开全部)

Known for his original and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter Singer now turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding globalisation. In this provocative book, he challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of nation-states and consider what a global ethic could mean in today's world. Singer raises novel que...(展开全部)

In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian women, and research with lesbian communities and queer activist groups across the country, Dave studies the everyday practices that...(展开全部)

In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy? This is the urgent central question of Being Good in a World of Need. Larry S. Temkin, one of the world's foremost ethicists, challenges common assumptions about philanthropy, his own prior beliefs, and the dominant philosophical positions of Peter...(展开全部)

赫尔曼•鲍辛格（Hermann Bausinger，1926— ），德国著名的民俗学家和日耳曼语言文学研究家，1960—1992年任图宾根大学经验文化学研究所所长，是第二次世界大战以后民俗学从古文化研究转向当代日常生活研究的首倡者和重要推动者。著有《技术世界中的民间文化》、《“民间诗歌”的形式》、《民俗学：从古代研究到文化分析》等书。其中最具开创性的学术著作《技术世界中的民间文化》在国际学术界产生了广泛而持久的影响，已被译成英语、法语、意大利语、日语和韩语等多种文字。鲍辛格对民俗学的传统领域即民间叙事和方言也有深入的研究，曾担任《童话全书》的主编。1993年获得马堡大学的“格林兄弟奖”，2009年被授予“巴登－符腾堡州杰出贡献勋章”。