This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state. It seeks to demonstrate that Liang was not only a profoundly paradigmatic modern Chinese intel...(展开全部)

Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption - in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning...(展开全部)

This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form and the excitement of an encounter across national cultural boundaries as Habermas takes up the challenge posed by the radical critique of reason in contemporary French postmodernism. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity is ...(展开全部)

This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form and the excitement of an encounter across national cultural boundaries as Habermas takes up the challenge posed by the radical critique of reason in contemporary French postmodernism. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity is ...(展开全部)

Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North. In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and material significance of water through the experiences of six cities: Paris, Berlin...(展开全部)

艾恺1975年获美国哈佛大学哲学博士学位，现任芝加哥大学历史教授。还著有《南京十年的乡村建设》、《世界范围内的反现代思潮》等。

艾恺1975年获美国哈佛大学哲学博士学位，现任芝加哥大学历史教授。还著有《南京十年的乡村建设》、《世界范围内的反现代思潮》等。

文恺，1975年获美国哈佛大学哲学博士学位，现任芝加哥大学历史教授。还著有《南京十年的乡村建设》、《世界范围内的反现代思潮》等。