Cultural Critique

45 books

The American Anti-Intellectual Tradition: How Culture and Society Shaped America's Attitude Toward Intellect cover
Rating 4.7
The American Anti-Intellectual Tradition: How Culture and Society Shaped America's Attitude Toward Intellect 理查德·霍夫施塔特 / 居方 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024 Combining intellectual, social, and political history, this book examines the anti-intellectual tradition in American culture. Richard Hofstadter, act…
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Rating 4.0
Postmodern Morality 让-弗朗索瓦·利奥塔 / 莫伟民 / 贾其臻 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2024 Postmodern Moralities is not a conventional treatise on ethics. Lyotard does not set out to examine such central questions of the moral domain as mora…
Marxist Cultural Theory: A Critical Study cover
Rating 3.8
Marxist Cultural Theory: A Critical Study 卢文忠 Chongqing University Press · 2021 This book offers a comparatively accurate and in-depth analysis and discussion of the Marxist view of culture grounded in praxis, following the logic …
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Rating 4.3
The Fear of Death and Strategies for Life 齐格蒙特·鲍曼 / 李康 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026 Everyone dies. How to face death is a lesson each of us must learn for life. Zygmunt Bauman, "the greatest sociologist of our time," argues that human…
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Rating 4.5
The Neurotic Personality of Our Time Karen Horney / 崔艺玮 Flower City Publishing House · 2026 Neurosis and Human Growth is not the title here—Karen Horney's representative work, Neurotic Personality of Our Time, argues that neurosis stems from …
Deconstructing Creativity: A Century of Frenzy cover
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Deconstructing Creativity: A Century of Frenzy 塞缪尔·W.富兰克林 / 王筱蕾 / 谢璐 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025 Creativity is one of the signature values of American society. Yet the birth and ascendancy of the very concept of "creativity" is a brief and deeply …
A Study of Western Marxist Cultural Critical Theory cover
Rating 3.8
A Study of Western Marxist Cultural Critical Theory 张楠楠 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025 Western Marxist cultural criticism has grounded its theoretical development in an avoidance of economism and reductionism. Thus, despite its continuou…
Discourse · Narrative · Ethics: Reflection and Critique of Contemporary Advertising and Online Communication cover
Rating 3.6
Discourse · Narrative · Ethics: Reflection and Critique of Contemporary Advertising and Online Communication 杨先顺 Jinan University Press · 2025 Taking "discourse—narrative—ethics" as its thread, this book explores the inner mechanisms and semiotic logic of advertising discourse, conducts narra…
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Rating 4.5
Bernhard's Artist Trilogy 托马斯·伯恩哈德 / 马文韬 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2024 A classic novel by Thomas Bernhard, winner of the Grillparzer Prize, the Austrian State Prize for Literature, the Georg Büchner Prize, the Bremen Lite…
A Study of American Gender Criticism Theory cover
Rating 3.7
A Study of American Gender Criticism Theory Wang Nan Peking University Press · 2025 Drawing on rich domestic and international literature and textual reading, this book seeks to recreate the historical, social, and theoretical context…
A Study of Ernst Bloch's Cultural Critique cover
Rating 3.5
A Study of Ernst Bloch's Cultural Critique 陈影 Peking University Press · 2025 This book explores Ernst Bloch's pursuit of the utopian spirit—expressionist in form, and in content bearing the dimension of hope and a Marxist chara…
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Rating 4.0
Notes from Night Reading Zhou Zuoren · 2024 Night Reading Notes collects nearly all of Zhou Zuoren's essays and can be regarded as a work of cultural criticism. Among Zhou's many works, it holds…
Chronicles of Social Critical Theory (Vol. 15) cover
Rating 4.0
Chronicles of Social Critical Theory (Vol. 15) Zhang Yibing Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024 The 15th volume of *Chronicles of Social Critical Theory* centers on Žižek's philosophical thought, comprising two parts: selected translations of Žiž…
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Rating 4.7
Old Tales Retold Lu Xun Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This collection brings together eight distinctive short stories Lu Xun wrote over a span of thirteen years. Drawing on ancient legends, they are no co…
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Rating 4.3
Four Generations Under One Roof (Guided Reading Edition) 陈海印 / 汪龙麟 / 管然荣 Sino-Culture Press · 2023 This book is a guide to the novel Four Generations Under One Roof. Divided into thirteen chapters, it takes up figures such as Qi Ruixuan, Old Master …
Fuzhou Academic Journal 2021: Studies in Cultural Inheritance and Innovation cover
Rating 2.8
Fuzhou Academic Journal 2021: Studies in Cultural Inheritance and Innovation 彭锋 Sino-Culture Press · 2023 Part of the Chinese Cultural Heritage and Innovation Research Think Tank Series, this volume promotes cultural heritage and innovation by conducting t…
Chronicles of Social Critical Theory (Vol. 12) cover
Rating 4.1
Chronicles of Social Critical Theory (Vol. 12) Zhang Yibing Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2022 Volume 12 of Chronicles of Social Critical Theory comprises three parts. Part One presents selected translations from Theodor W. Adorno's collection P…
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Rating 4.5
Old Tales Retold Lu Xun China Culture and History Press · 2024 Old Tales Retold is a collection of short stories by Lu Xun based on ancient myths and historical legends. It is Lu Xun's final work of innovation; fi…
Illustrated Representative Works of Great Cultural Figures: The Birth of Tragedy cover
Rating 4.3
Illustrated Representative Works of Great Cultural Figures: The Birth of Tragedy Friedrich Nietzsche / 张中良 Chongqing Publishing House · 2021 The Birth of Tragedy is one of the world's most popular works of philosophy (aesthetics). In lucid, spirited prose the young Nietzsche passionately se…
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Rating 4.1
Philosophy of Culture 阿尔贝特·施韦泽 / 陈泽环 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2020 The Philosophy of Culture is the most important philosophical-ethical work published by Schweitzer during his lifetime, comprising Volume 1, The Decay…