Postmodernism

18 books

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A Brief History of Western Architecture Chen Jie Tsinghua University Press · 2015 This book is an introductory survey of Western architecture for general readers, aiming to sketch concisely the development of Western architecture fr…
Foucault and Sex: A Reading of Foucault's The History of Sexuality cover
Rating 4.0
Foucault and Sex: A Reading of Foucault's The History of Sexuality Li Yinhe Inner Mongolia University Press · 2009 This book is Li Yinhe's systematic reading of The History of Sexuality (also translated as The History of Sexuality) by the French thinker Michel Fouc…
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Rating 4.2
The Accursed Share Georges Bataille Nanjing University Press · 2019 The Accursed Share is one of the core works of the French thinker Georges Bataille and the foundational text in which he sets out his "general economy…
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Rating 4.5
2666 Roberto Bolaño Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2012 2666 is a novel by the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, assembled by his literary heirs after his death and published in 2004; it is widely regarded as …
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Rating 4.0
The Paul Auster Collection (8-Volume Boxed Set) Paul Auster Jiuzhou Press · 2020 Published by Imaginist and Jiuzhou Press, The Paul Auster Collection (8-Volume Boxed Set) gathers eight representative works by the contemporary Ameri…
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Rating 4.2
Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes Yilin Press · 2024 In two of Flaubert's former homes there stands a stuffed parrot, but which one is the bird that once sat on the writer's desk while he wrote A Simple …
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Rating 4.2
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2018 When Haruki Murakami began this book he was thirty-six, and with a long novel of rare structure he posed a question he would pursue for the rest of hi…
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Half a Centimeter Past the Ankle Malu D. Dogula Beijing Yanshan Press · 2009 Russell, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche… these names seem familiar yet not quite, plausible yet not quite—they are exactly the names of a group of young…
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Libra Don DeLillo Yilin Press · 2013 Libra is a 1988 novel by the contemporary American author Don DeLillo and is regarded as one of the representative works of postmodern historical fict…
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Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming 克拉斯诺霍尔卡伊·拉斯洛 Yilin Press · 2025 Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming is a 2016 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. The simplifie…
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Rating 4.2
The Tribal Era: The Decline of Individualism in Postmodern Society 米歇尔·马费索利 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2022 This book is French sociologist Michel Maffesoli's representative work exploring the structural transformation of postmodern society. The author propo…
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Rating 3.9
The World Goes On 克拉斯诺霍尔卡伊·拉斯洛 People's Literature Publishing House · 2025 The World Goes On (Hungarian title: Megy a világ) is the second short-story collection by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. The Hungarian ori…
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Rating 4.2
Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes Yilin Press · 2021 This book is a representative work by the British writer Julian Barnes, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984. In it, Barnes takes as his subject t…
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Rating 4.1
V Empire 维克多·佩列文 / 朱李灵 Chongqing Publishing House · 2025 This world is ruled by vampires. Not the kind who stay forever young and romantic, the girls and boys who keep sleepless eyes open all night and press…
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Rating 4.3
Animalized Postmodernity: Analyzing Consumer Society Through Otaku 东浩纪 / 褚炫初 / Wang Fei Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025 The logic of the American-style consumer society has steadily expanded since World War II and now covers the entire world. Without the intervention of…
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Rating 3.1
Research on Shared Accommodation from the Perspective of Collaborative Consumption 卢东 / 曾小桥 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025 The fluidity of postmodern social structures has reconfigured the subject-object relationship between consumers and products. Under this relationship,…
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Rating 3.5
Exploring the Middle Ages 王云龙 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2020 Opening with the New Medievalism, this book traces, through the mirror of diachronic discourse analysis in a postmodern academic context, various rela…
A Study of Postmodern Philosophical Trends (Expanded Edition) (Young and Middle-aged Scholars Library) cover
Rating 4.2
A Study of Postmodern Philosophical Trends (Expanded Edition) (Young and Middle-aged Scholars Library) 王治河 Peking University Press · 2025 The author's research findings on postmodern philosophical thought.