This book is the first major study of the theme of misanthropy, its history, arguments both for and against it, and its significance for us today. Misanthropy is not strictly a philosophy. It is an inconsistent thought, and so has often been mocked. But from Timon of Athens to Motorhead it has had a very long life, vast historical purchase and is seemingly indomitable and unign...(展开全部)

L. Nandi Theunissen develops a non-Kantian account of the value of human beings. Against the Kantian tradition, in which humanity is absolutely valuable and unlike the value of anything else, Theunissen outlines a relational proposal according to which our value is continuous with the value of other valuable things. She takes the Socratic starting point that good is affecting, ...(展开全部)

L. Nandi Theunissen develops a non-Kantian account of the value of human beings. Against the Kantian tradition, in which humanity is absolutely valuable and unlike the value of anything else, Theunissen outlines a relational proposal according to which our value is continuous with the value of other valuable things. She takes the Socratic starting point that good is affecting, ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

艾力克斯·柯林尼可斯（1950-），是一位出生于津巴布韦的英国政治理论家和活动家。他以学术身份担任伦敦国王学院欧洲研究教授。作为托洛茨基主义的信徒，他是社会主义工人党中央委员会的成员，并担任其国际秘书。他还是SWP理论期刊国际社会主义的编辑，并出版了许多书籍。

Social criticism has enjoyed a renaissance in the past few years. The anti-globalization protests at Seattle and Genoa and the great marches against the war in Iraq have put contestation of capitalism and imperialism back on the political and intellectual agenda. But how does social critique situate itself philosophically today, after the marginalization of Marxism and the impa...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic’s task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of interpretation in literary studies, and situates it as but one method among many, a method with strong allure—but also definite lim...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 芮塔·菲尔斯基（Rita Felski），《新文学史》前主编，弗吉尼亚大学英文系教授，美学、文学理论、女性主义理论、文化研究等领域的杰出学者。 代表作：《批判的限度》《现代性的性别》《文学之用》《女性主义之后的文学》《创制时间：女性主义理论与后现代文化》《超越女性主义美学:女性主义文学与社会变迁》等。 2000年，获美国现代语言学会颁发的威廉·帕克·赖利奖。 2010年，获古根海姆奖。 【译者简介】 但汉松，南京大学英文系教授，博士生导师。

To treat some human beings as less worthy of concern and respect than others is to lose sight of their humanity. But what does this moral blindness amount to? What are we missing when we fail to appreciate the value of humanity? The essays in this volume offer a wide range of competing, yet overlapping, answers to these questions. Some essays examine influential views in the hi...(展开全部)