Our imagination today is dominated by the end of the world, from sci-fi and climate fiction to actual predictions of biodiversity collapse, climate disruption, and the emergence of the Anthropocene. This obsession with the world’s precarity, The Memory of the World contends, relies on a flawed understanding of time that neglects the past and present with the goal of managing th...(展开全部)

""Time Maps" extends beyond all of the old cliches about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions about philosophy of history, historical narrative, and what is called straigh...(展开全部)

"Time Maps extends beyond all of the old clichés about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions about philosophy of history, historical narrative, and what is called straight ...(展开全部)

Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama's sensitive investigation of the "dialectics of memory." She explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memoriesincluding history textbook controversies, ...(展开全部)

Lisa Yoneyama is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies and Cultural Studies in the Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego.

Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and the secrets of their ancient heritage provide captivating reading and a unique insight into a forgotten way of life.

中译本导言前言第一章 来临的上帝：终末论现况一 终末论的时间化二 终末论的永恒化三 来临的上帝的终末论四 犹太教弥赛亚思想的再生第二章 永恒的生命：个人的终末论一 生命和死亡二 灵魂不灭或身体复活? 三 死亡是罪的后果，还是生命自然的终点? 四 死人在哪里? 五 死亡、哀悼和安慰第三章 上帝国：历史的终末论一 历史的恐怖末日论二 弥赛亚式终末论：“千年国度” 三 政治的弥赛亚主义：“神圣国度” 四 政治的千禧年主义：“救赎者国家” 五 教会的千禧年主义：“万民的母亲和教师” 六 划时代的千禧年主义：“近代”的诞生源自弥赛亚盼望的精神七 千禧年式的终末论是必要的吗? 八 人类历史的末时：灭绝主义九 “历史的终结”：后历史的先知十 恐怖末日的终末论是必要的吗? 十一 万有的回归第四章 新天新地：宇宙的终末论一 受造的将来：安息和舍金纳二 世界的毁灭或圆满...(展开全部)

Divine Violence looks at the question of political theology and its connection to sovereignty. It argues that the practice of sovereignty reflects a Christian eschatology, one that proves very hard to overcome even by left thinkers, such as Arendt and Derrida, who are very critical of it. These authors fall into a trap described by Carl Schmitt whereby one is given a (false) ch...(展开全部)

In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all aspects of society shifted public discourse from minjung (people) to simin (citizen), from political to cultural, from collective to individual. This shift reconstituted peopl...(展开全部)

约翰尼斯•费边，著名人类学家，曾在美国西北大学、卫斯理学院等多所大学执教，担任波恩大学、科隆大学、巴黎大学的访问学者。退休前任教于荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学，现居德国。他写了很多批评性的著作，《时间与他者》是他的代表作，这本书是人类学领域的经典著作，改变了人类学家“建立研究对象”的方法。