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Imaginist focuses on quality works in the humanities, social sciences and literature, covering fields such as social psychology, Western philosophy, film and television, world history, finance and history. Its catalog includes titles such as Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power, I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, as well as books on film noir, the future of capitalism and world economic history, reflecting a balance between intellectual substance, interdisciplinary range and readability. Contributors include well-known scholars and writers such as Canetti, Hofstadter and Dennett, along with translators and authors such as Li Jiachuan, Ji Chong, Feng Wenguang, Shu Wen and Ma Jian. As public information is limited, this description is based only on the eight titles in the catalog: the press emphasizes introducing overseas works of thought and general readers on history and film, combining academic depth with accessibility for general readers.

Published (9)

Crowds and Power + The Territory of Man cover
Rating 4.6
Crowds and Power + The Territory of Man 埃利亚斯·卡内蒂 / 李佳川 / 季冲 / 冯文光 Imaginist · 2020 This collection includes two works by Elias Canetti. Crowds and Power explores the dynamics between crowds and groups, and how and why crowds submit t…
Who Am I, or What: A Collection of Dialectical Fantasies on Mind and Self cover
Rating 4.5
Who Am I, or What: A Collection of Dialectical Fantasies on Mind and Self 侯世达 / 丹尼尔·丹尼特 / 舒文 / 马健 Imaginist · 2020 “What is the mind? Who am I? Can purely physical matter think or feel? Where is the soul? Faced with these questions, everyone falls into confusion. W…
Film Noir: History, Criticism, and Style (Revised and Expanded Edition) cover
Rating 4.5
Film Noir: History, Criticism, and Style (Revised and Expanded Edition) 詹姆斯·纳雷摩尔 / 徐展雄 Imaginist · 2020 Film noir is undoubtedly one of the most amorphous categories in cinema. Born in American Hollywood, "film noir" nonetheless has a romantic French nam…
The Future of Capitalism cover
Rating 4.3
The Future of Capitalism 保罗·科利尔 / 刘波 Imaginist · 2020 Today's capitalist world is gripped by anxiety. Social mobility has stalled, regional gaps have widened, corporations pursue profit above all else, an…
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World cover
Rating 4.2
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World 格里高利·克拉克 / 洪世民 Imaginist · 2020 What causes economic development? Do institutional factors explain the wealth gap between societies? Can poor societies achieve economic development t…
Theatre of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War cover
Rating 4.2
Theatre of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War 伊恩·布鲁玛 / 周如怡 Imaginist · 2020 "The Cruel Theater" is a selection of Ian Buruma's arts and cultural criticism and historical essays published in The New York Review of Books over th…
Xu Zhuoyun on America cover
Rating 4.0
Xu Zhuoyun on America Cho-Yun Hsu Imaginist · 2020 A Chinese historian who has lived in the United States for more than sixty years shares his firsthand experience. With the keen combined perspective o…
Work Two Days, Rest Five: A Guide to Urban Life with Little Money and Little Work cover
Rating 3.8
Work Two Days, Rest Five: A Guide to Urban Life with Little Money and Little Work 大原扁理 Imaginist · 2019 Young people just out of college work more than twelve hours a day, go to the office on Saturdays and holidays too, and on Sundays go nowhere and do n…
Imaginist Translation Series Box Set (Volumes 036–050) cover
Imaginist Translation Series Box Set (Volumes 036–050) 鹤见俊辅 / 伊丽莎白·皮萨尼 / 理查德·J.埃文斯 / Bettina Stangneth / 伊恩·布鲁玛 / 保罗·科利尔 / 恩里克·克劳泽 / 亚当·图兹 / 西蒙·沙玛 / Frederick Watkins Imaginist · 2019 The Imaginist Translation Series is an open-ended humanities and social science translation series published by Imaginist, jointly edited by scholars …

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