Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a tran...(展开全部)

Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since its inception in the 1980s. Now, in what is sure to be a wave-making new book, Assange brings together a small group o...(展开全部)

朱利安·阿桑奇 Julian Assange，澳大利亚记者，维基解密创始人和主编，人称“黑客罗宾汉”。 2006年创办泄密网站维基解密，因公布美军装备数据库、关塔那摩监狱手册、机构和企业腐败报告、阿富汗战争日志、伊拉克战争日志、“电报门”等机密文件名噪天下。2010年 ，登上“《时代》读者心中的年度人物”投票榜首位，另获萨姆·亚当斯“情报界正直奖”。2011年5月，获颁悉尼和平奖，同年被提名诺贝尔和平奖。2013年5月，与维基解密一起被授予“人民选择奖”。2012年8月起进入位于伦敦的厄瓜多尔驻英大使馆政治避难至今。 他是密码朋克邮件列表的最初贡献者之一，也是众多遵循密码朋克哲学的软件项目的创建。

On June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Stud...(展开全部)

Product Description Surveying three centuries of economic history, a Harvard professor argues for a leaner global system that puts national democracies front and center. From the mercantile monopolies of seventeenth-century empires to the modern-day authority of the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, the nations of the world have struggled to effectively harness globalization's promise....(展开全部)

Our imagination today is dominated by the end of the world, from sci-fi and climate fiction to actual predictions of biodiversity collapse, climate disruption, and the emergence of the Anthropocene. This obsession with the world’s precarity, The Memory of the World contends, relies on a flawed understanding of time that neglects the past and present with the goal of managing th...(展开全部)

Available in English for the first time, "Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns" rejuvenates discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's thought. Domenico Losurdo, one of the world's leading Hegelians, reveals the philosopher as having been fully engaged with the political co...(展开全部)

Available in English for the first time, "Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns" rejuvenates discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's thought. Domenico Losurdo, one of the world's leading Hegelians, reveals the philosopher as having been fully engaged with the political co...(展开全部)

托马斯·克莱顿·沃尔夫(1900—1938)出生于北卡罗来纳州一个石匠家庭。自幼酷爱阅读与幻想，二十岁毕业于北卡罗来纳州立大学，进入哈佛研究院学习戏剧，获英国文学硕士学位，并在纽约大学任教。一丸二九年，他凭自传体小说《天使，望故乡》蜚声文坛，被认为是最有前途的美国小．说家。一九三五年《时间与河流》出版，成为畅销书。仅三年后，沃尔夫便因病去世。他的大量遗藕经编辑出版，成为另两部长篇小说《蛛网与磐石》和《你不能再回家》，短篇小说集《从死亡到早晨》，以及一部未完成的杂集《远山》。沃尔夫的自传体小说围绕作者的生平经历与感受形成了一个整体。从出生开始写起，一直到主人公以成名作家的身份重回故乡为止，重现了作者本人充溅孤独、幻想、思索与渴望的一生。