In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative de-colonial framework for visual culture studies, a field that he has helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and counter-visuality, or "the right to look," he explains how visuality sutures authority to power and renders the association natural. An early-nineteenth-cent...(展开全部)

In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative de-colonial framework for visual culture studies, a field that he has helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and counter-visuality, or "the right to look," he explains how visuality sutures authority to power and renders the association natural. An early-nineteenth-cent...(展开全部)

'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' Jia Tolentino 'I believe Amia Srinivasan's work will change the world' Katherine Rundell 'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The best non-fiction book I have read this year' Pandora Sykes How should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also...(展开全部)

'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' Jia Tolentino 'I believe Amia Srinivasan's work will change the world' Katherine Rundell 'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The best non-fiction book I have read this year' Pandora Sykes How should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also...(展开全部)

Alexandre Koj_ve offers a systematic discussion of key themes such as right, justice, law, equality, and autonomy in which he presages our contemporary world of economic globalization and international law. Edited and translated (with Robert Howse) by Bryan-Paul Frost, this is the authoritative English language edition of a monumental work in political philosophy.

In the most political work of a man who influenced a generation of leading French intellectuals and scholars, Alexandre Kojeve gives a systematic discussion of the themes of right and law and his case for the character of the justice of equity. In addition, Kojeve accounts for the origins and development of right and justice from the master-slave dialectic, through which he sho...(展开全部)

Which of us, when finding ourselves in the presence of a painting, has not sensed that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade our understanding. Francoise Barbe-Gall combines a nuanced understanding of the way viewers respond to paintings with a rich knowledge of their context and circumstances of their creation. The re...(展开全部)

Can the right to private property be claimed as one of the 'rights of mankind'? This is the central question of this comprehensive and critical examination of the subject of private property. Jeremy Waldron contrasts two types of arguments about rights: those based on historical entitlement, and those based on the importance of property to freedom. He provides a detailed discus...(展开全部)

Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right, one of the classic texts of German Idealism, is a seminal work of legal, social and political philosophy that has generated very different interpretations since its publication in 1821. Written with the advantage of historical distance, the essays in this volume adopt a fresh perspective that makes readers aware of the breadth and de...(展开全部)

伊恩·M.班克斯Iain M.Banks （1954—2013） 英国著名作家，威士忌爱好者，生于苏格兰，曾就读于斯特林大学，主修英语文学、哲学和心理学。他以伊恩·班克斯为笔名创作纯文学作品，以伊恩·M.班克斯为笔名创作科幻小说。 一九八四年，班克斯以处女作《捕蜂器》一举成名。一九八七年起，他涉足科幻小说领域，创作了一系列以“文明”为背景的太空乌托邦作品，好评如潮，一度揽获两届英国科幻小说协会奖，获得包括轨迹奖在内的近二十项科幻大奖提名。《卫报》称其作品为“科幻小说评判的标杆”；赛博朋克大师威廉·吉布森盛赞他为科幻小说界的“不可多得的奇才”；《时代》周刊更是称其为“英国同时代作家中最有想像力的小说家”。 二〇〇八年，《泰晤士报》将班克斯评为一九四五年后英国最优秀的五十位作家之一。 二〇一三年六月，班克斯罹患癌症不幸去世，享年五十九岁。