Introduces the interdisciplinary importance of Michel Serres (1930-2019) across the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences Author of some 70 books and an 'immortal' member of the Académie française, Michel Serres has produced an inimitable cross-disciplinary body of work. His scholarship contributes to current debates in post-humanism, object-oriented ontology, ecologic...(展开全部)

Eight years after it was first published, Photography: A Critical Introduction still has no direct competitor. Carefully structured, it identifies key debates in photographic theory, is user-friendly and is ideal for stimulating discussion and evaluation of the critical use of photographic images and ways of seeing. This new edition retains the thematic structure and text featu...(展开全部)

This major new introduction to comparative literature is for the students coming to the subject for the first time. Through an examination of a series of case studies and new theoretical developments, Bassnett reviews the current state of comparative literature world--wide in the 1990s. In the past twenty years of a range of new developments in critical theory have changed patt...(展开全部)

New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies...(展开全部)

Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these five lively interviews with sociologist Bruno Latour, this increasingly important cultural figure sheds light on the ideas that...(展开全部)

A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts. The book begins by putting gay and lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how and why queer theory emerged in the West in the late twentieth century. Sullivan goes on ...(展开全部)

In its essence, Critical Theory is Western Marxist thought with the emphasis moved from the liberation of the working class to broader issues of individual agency. Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose-and, if at all possible, cure-the ills of society, particularly fascism and cap...(展开全部)

作者:(英)安东尼·吉登斯 安东尼·吉登斯（Anthony Giddens，1938- ），当代著名社会学家和政治思想家，曾任英国剑桥大学社会学教授，伦敦经济政治学院院长。吉登斯的政治思想对英国新工党的发展产生过举足轻重的影响，曾被誉为英国首相布莱尔的“精神导师”。

摄影不仅是一种人造之物，能够以不同的方式在不同的情况下被人使用；摄影还是特定情境中的一系列实践活动。《摄影批判导论(第4版)》为读者介绍了摄影学的概念性议题，并对摄影的思考方式进行了总体的阐述。《摄影批判导论(第4版)》的基本宗旨是介绍摄影领域中的关键性学术论辩，以及为读者提供相关的信息与资料，从而使读者能够进行相关的调查研究。所以，从本质上来讲，这本书主要为读者提供了关于如何阅读摄影图像的知识，提高读者对影像艺术的解读能力。 与众不同的是，《摄影批判导论(第4版)》并没有提供年鉴式的枯燥的摄影史，而是以当代摄影实践的议题为焦点来讨论以往的相关看法与见解、技术的局限性以及其社会政治背景。换言之，作者将摄影学观点的发展与某个领域的实践联系起来阐述，并以这些特定的重点领域作为每章的主题。读者将在本书中了解到以下内容：摄影观念论、观察者与被观察者、个人摄影...(展开全部)