A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles.On Ju...(展开全部)

A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles.On Ju...(展开全部)

作者简介 大卫·哈维（David Harvey），1935年生于英国肯特郡，1957年获英国剑桥大学学士学位，1961年获该校博士学位。曾任教于英国布里斯托尔大学、美国宾州大学、英国牛津大学和美国约翰·霍普金斯大学，现任教于纽约市立大学研究生中心和伦敦经济学院。哈维是当今世界最主要的批判性知识分子，是当代西方新马克思主义的重要代表人物之一。他至今已经出版了十部著作，其中包括《地理学中的解释》、《社会正义与城市》、《资本的限度》、《资本的都市化》、《后现代的状况》，以及《资本的空间》和《新帝国主义》等。 译者简介 黄煜文，1974年生，台湾大学历史学硕士，现为专职译者，译著甚丰。重要译作有《论历史》、《世纪末的维也纳》、《肉体与石头》、《孩子的历史》、《错的是我们，不是我：家暴的动力关系》、《惩罚与现代社会》、《你的权利从哪里来？》等。

Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, "Paris, The Capital of Modernity" offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. Stunning in scope and form, this is a long-awaited...(展开全部)

“Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an un...(展开全部)

“In a letter to his parents, George Plimpton once described The Paris Review interview as ‘an essay in dialogue on technique.’ As you will see from this volume, technique is always the main topic—how a writer begins to write, to think of herself as a writer; what struggles she meets; if and how she overcomes them. But thanks to the unusual method invented by Plimpton and the ot...(展开全部)

“In a letter to his parents, George Plimpton once described The Paris Review interview as ‘an essay in dialogue on technique.’ As you will see from this volume, technique is always the main topic—how a writer begins to write, to think of herself as a writer; what struggles she meets; if and how she overcomes them. But thanks to the unusual method invented by Plimpton and the ot...(展开全部)

In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opus Pistorum) is that book. Here one finds Miller’s characteristic candor, wit, self-mockery, and celebration of the good life. From Marcelle to Tania, to Alexandra, to Anna, and from...(展开全部)

"This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New Yorker At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be...(展开全部)