The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world, leading cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai places these challenges and pleasures of contemporary life in a broad global ...(展开全部)

作者介绍： 阿尔君·阿帕杜莱（Arjun Appadurai） 著名人类学家。1949年出生并成长于印度孟买，后赴美国求学，获芝加哥大学博士。曾任芝加哥大学人类学与南亚语言及文明教授、芝加哥大学人文学院院长、耶鲁大学城市与全球化中心主任、新学院全球倡议资深导师，现任纽约大学斯坦哈特学院文化、教育与人类发展学系教授。主持过芝大全球化计划，担任诸多公共及私人组织（如福特基金会、洛克菲勒基金会、联合国教科文组织、世界银行等）顾问，并长期关注全球化、现代性、种族冲突等议题。著有《殖民统治下的崇拜与冲突》（Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule）、《对少数者的恐惧》（Fear of Small Numbers )等。 译者介绍: 刘冉 香港中文大学社会学系在读硕士，研究方向为公民社会、非政府组织发展以及民主化理论。

Analyses the ways hybridity has been used, from the first century AD to today, offering an enlightening look at cultural mixture. The intermingling of people and media from different cultures is a communication-based phenomenon known as hybridity. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well ...(展开全部)

The Dimensions of Hegel's Dialectic examines the epistemological import of Hegelian dialectic in the widest sense. In modern philosophy, German idealism, Hegel in particular, is said to have made significant innovative steps in redefining the meaning, scope and use of dialectic. Indeed, it is dialectic that makes up the very core of Hegel's position, yet it is an area of his th...(展开全部)

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them, are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a r...(展开全部)

劳拉·布朗（Laura Brown），美国康奈尔大学英文系教授、系主任，研究领域为18世纪英国文学与文化，担任美国18世纪研究学会主席。主要研究专著包括《帝国的终结：18世纪早期英国文学中的女性和意识形态》（Ends of Empire: Womenand Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature，康奈尔大学出版社1993年），《现代性的寓言：18世纪英国的文学与文化》（Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the EnglishEighteenth Century，康奈尔大学出版社2001年），《流浪狗和忧郁的猿：现代文学想象中的人和动物》（Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans ...(展开全部)

A Humble leader may have a hard time making tough decisions. A Commanding leader may run roughshod over potential allies. The authors detail the lessons all leaders can learn from each style, enabling you to craft a multidimensional approach to becoming the leader you aspire to be.

In an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modernity. She also calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either demonized the modern as inherently partiarchal, or else assumed a simple opposition between men's and women's experiences of the modern world. Combining cultural history with cultural theory, and focusing on the fin de siecle, Fel...(展开全部)

The essays collected in this volume all explore the problem of the relation between moral philosophy and modernity. Charles Larmore addresses this problem by attempting to define the way distinctive forms of modern experience should orientate our moral thinking. Charles Larmore wonders whether the dominant forms of modern philosophy have not become blind to important dimensions...(展开全部)

The essays collected in this volume all explore the problem of the relation between moral philosophy and modernity. Charles Larmore addresses this problem by attempting to define the way distinctive forms of modern experience should orientate our moral thinking. Charles Larmore wonders whether the dominant forms of modern philosophy have not become blind to important dimensions...(展开全部)