Petrus Liu is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, also published by Duke University Press, and Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly reabsorbed into the liberal project of diversity management. This theoretical and political weakness, Petru...(展开全部)

It’s commonly understood within the academy that the terms “man,” “woman,” and “other” are socially constructed, and that their meanings are maintained by the current political order. But few thinkers have attempted to reconcile that knowledge—which is rooted in Marxism—with queer theory. The few who have, meanwhile, usually attempt to do so through issues of libidinal desire a...(展开全部)

姚远，南京师范大学法学院暨中国法治现代化研究院副教授，江苏高校区域法治发展协同创新中心研究员，四海法学编译馆馆长。 丁文慧，四海法学编译馆翻译助理，现供职于海天集团法务部。

The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He...(展开全部)

莱谢克·柯拉柯夫斯基（Leszek Kolakowski, 1927-2009 ），20世纪波兰著名的哲学家、哲学史和宗教史学家，也是作家和翻译家，享有国际声誉。先后任教于华沙大学、美国耶鲁大学、加州大学伯克利分校、芝加哥大学等，1970年起在英国牛津大学万灵学院任高级研究员。 曾在华沙大学任教，以批判基督教哲学而闻名。兼任《哲学研究》杂志主编和《新文化》杂志编辑。苏共20大后，曾发表文章批判所谓“马克思主义思维的蜕化”，试图“革新”马克思主义。1966年在“波兹南事件”十周年时，发表了《十月的总结》一文，公开批评波兰政府限制言论自由，认为社会主义只有从官僚主义、异化世界中摆脱出来才能重新恢复声誉，被开除出党。1969年起，先后在加拿大蒙特利尔大学、美国伯克利大学、加利福尼亚大学和英国牛津大学担任客座教授。1977年联邦德国图书业授予他和平奖，表彰...(展开全部)

The Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely analyzed together—formative arguments for Marxism and those that have been the basis for queer theory—and productively scrutinizes these ideas both with and against each other to put forth a new theoretical connection between Marxism and queer studies. Kevin Floyd brings queer critique to bear on the Marxian categ...(展开全部)

V. N. Vološinov’s important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the English translation will be capital for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and many others. Vološinov is out to undo the old disciplinary boundaries between linguistics, rhetoric, and poetics in order to con...(展开全部)

Based on his work at some of the world's largest companies, including Ford, Adidas, and Chanel, Christian Madsbjerg's Sensemaking is a provocative stand against the tyranny of big data and scientism, and an urgent, overdue defense of human intelligence. Humans have become subservient to algorithms. Every day brings a new Moneyball fix--a math whiz who will crack open an industr...(展开全部)