In Neoliberalism from Below—first published in Argentina in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups. Using the massive illegal market La Salada in Buenos Aires as a point...(展开全部)

海因里希·沃尔夫林（Heinrich Wolfflin，1864-1945年），瑞士著名美术史家，著名学者雅各布·布克哈特的高足，被认为是继温克尔曼、布克哈特之后第三位伟大的艺术史家。沃尔夫林的艺术史研究关注普遍的风格特征，而不是对单独艺术家的分析，他把作品形式分析、心理学和文化史结合起来，力图创建一部“无名的艺术史“。主要著作有：《文艺复兴与巴洛克》（1888年）、《古典艺术》（1899年）、《艺术史的基本原理》（又译《艺术风格学：美术史的基本概念》，1915年）和《意大利和德国的形式知觉》（1931年）等。

DANIEL ZAMORA is a PhD candidate at the Free University of Brussels and his work on Foucault has been widely published. MICHAEL C. BEHRENT is Associate Professor at Appalachian State University.

Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault was not a direct witness of these years, his work on neoliberalism is nonetheless prescient: the questi...(展开全部)

More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China emerged in spite of impediments set up by the Chinese government. How did private...(展开全部)

More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China emerged in spite of impediments set up by the Chinese government. How did private...(展开全部)

In the twenty-first-century digital world, virtual goods are sold for real money. Digital game players happily pay for avatars, power-ups, and other game items. But behind every virtual sale, there is a virtual economy, simple or complex. In this book, Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova introduce the basic concepts of economics into the game developer’s and game designer’s ...(展开全部)

This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of 'society' and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space. Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflex...(展开全部)

In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. Along the way readers w...(展开全部)

The first truly multidisciplinary text of its kind, this book offers an original analysis of the current state of linguistic pragmatics. Cummings argues that no study of pragmatics can reasonably neglect the historical and contemporary influences on this discipline of neighboring fields of inquiry, particularly philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, and language patho...(展开全部)