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)

Between 1991 and 2015, Josef Koudelka completed an epic journey across twenty countries bordering the Mediterranean, stopping at over 200 Greek and Roman archaeological sites, relentlessly researching the beauty of the ancient world. Before the Magnum photographer, nobody had attempted to make such a comprehensive photographic record of these artefacts with so much persistence ...(展开全部)

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)

作者简介 大卫·哈维（David Harvey），1935年生于英国肯特郡，1957年获英国剑桥大学学士学位，1961年获该校博士学位。曾任教于英国布里斯托尔大学、美国宾州大学、英国牛津大学和美国约翰·霍普金斯大学，现任教于纽约市立大学研究生中心和伦敦经济学院。哈维是当今世界最主要的批判性知识分子，是当代西方新马克思主义的重要代表人物之一。他至今已经出版了十部著作，其中包括《地理学中的解释》、《社会正义与城市》、《资本的限度》、《资本的都市化》、《后现代的状况》，以及《资本的空间》和《新帝国主义》等。 译者简介 黄煜文，1974年生，台湾大学历史学硕士，现为专职译者，译著甚丰。重要译作有《论历史》、《世纪末的维也纳》、《肉体与石头》、《孩子的历史》、《错的是我们，不是我：家暴的动力关系》、《惩罚与现代社会》、《你的权利从哪里来？》等。

Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, "Paris, The Capital of Modernity" offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. Stunning in scope and form, this is a long-awaited...(展开全部)

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provoctive interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modernity. What is modernity? The author suggests, "As a first approximation, let us simply say the following: 'modernity' refers to modes of social life or organization which emerged in Europe from about the seventeenth century onwards and...(展开全部)

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)