For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape: whether in the name of the pre-rational Will, the social process of production, or the contingency of individual existence. Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the dominant philo...(展开全部)

In this major new work the leading philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that philosophical materialism has failed to meet the key scientific, theoretical and political challenges of the modern world, from relativity theory and quantum physics to Freudian psychoanalysis and the failure of twentieth-century Communism. To bring materialism up to date, Žižek proposes a new foundation fo...(展开全部)

作者简介： 齐泽克（Slavoj Žižek），1949年生，当代欧美著名哲学家。斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那大学社会学研究所资深教授，也是欧美诸多大学和研究机构的客座教授。深受黑格尔哲学、马克思主义和拉康精神分析理论的影响。擅长通过解读通俗文化现象阐释上述哲学理论，并以黑格尔哲学、马克思主义和拉康精神分析理论解释最新的社会文化活动。主要著作有《意识形态的崇高客体》《视差之见》《少于空无》《绝对反冲》等数十种。 译者简介： 季广茂，1963年生，山东人氏，北京师范大学文艺学研究中心研究员，北京师范大学文学院教授。分别于1984、1987、1997于聊城师范学院、山东师范大学、北京师范大学获得文学学士、硕士和博士学位。1999年任教授，2001年任博士生导师。发表过几篇论文，写过和译过几本书，是齐泽克在中国最早的译者。对比较诗学、西方哲学及文化理论有较为浓厚的...(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)

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly reabsorbed into the liberal project of diversity management. This theoretical and political weakness, Petru...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)