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The Collected Works of Kojin Karatani (Six Volumes)
Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2018
The Collected Works of Kojin Karatani is a Chinese-language edition of the writings of the Japanese literary critic and theorist Kojin Karatani, publi…
The Human Condition
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2017
The Human Condition (1958) is the magnum opus of Hannah Arendt, the German-American political thinker. Originally intended to be titled "Amor Mundi" (…
Momo: The Time Thieves and the Strange Story of a Little Girl
21st Century Publishing House · 2009
On the outskirts of a great city of palaces and temples, in a round ruined amphitheater, lives a little girl named Momo, of unknown age and origin. Sh…
The Postmodern Spirit
Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2011
The Postmodern Spirit is an essay collection edited by David Ray Griffin, a leading figure of constructive postmodernism and director of the Center fo…
The Revolt of the Masses
Shanxi People's Publishing House · 2020
La rebelión de las masas is the most celebrated work of the Spanish thinker José Ortega y Gasset, first published around 1930. The book consists of tw…
Arendt: The Origin of Politics
Nanjing University Press · 2022
Hannah Arendt is a thinker with a wide readership who is nevertheless notorious for her difficulty: What were her political positions? Was she a class…
One-Way Street
Contemporary World Press · 2022
One-Way Street, originally Einbahnstraße, is one of the representative works of the German thinker Walter Benjamin, written in the mid-1920s. It consi…
A Study of Roland Barthes's 'Collège de France Courses'
Peking University Press · 2025
Roland Barthes's four lecture courses at the Collège de France represent the ultimate stage of his intellectual development during his lifetime and a …
Critique and Interpretation of Modern Politics: On the Core Issues in the Strauss-Liberalism Debate
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019
Liberalism provided a political philosophy for the modern Western state built on individual freedom, but it also faces severe challenges today. Leo St…
A Study of Luhmann's Theory of the Legal System: The Perspective of Second-Order Observation
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
From the perspective of "second-order observation," this book conducts an in-depth study of Luhmann's legal systems theory. The book is divided into t…
Hegel's World of Thought: Essays on Logic
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
This book is a systematic study of the major ideas in Hegel's core work, the Science of Logic, along with their historical sources and structural patt…
Playing the Pipa in Reverse: A Critique of Medical Modernity
Peking University Press · 2025
This book collects essays including "The Philosophical Metaphor of Medicine," "The True Meaning of Medicine and Its Philosophical Inquiry," "In the Ho…
A Critique of the Modernity View of Life: A Marxist Research Perspective
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2025
This is an academic monograph. From a Marxist perspective, it offers a critique of the modern outlook on life. Taking capitalist modernity as the prob…
The Meta-Structural Foundation of Modernity and Its Critique: A Study of Jacques Bidet's Philosophical Thought
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2023
Jacques Bidet is a representative and microcosm of the development and transformation of French Marxism in the "post-Althusserian period." Employing a…
Marx and Foucault: A Comparative Study of Critical Theories of Modernity
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2023
From the perspective of the development of modernity critique as a whole, both Marx and Foucault profoundly shaped the directions later taken by this …
The Flâneur, the City, and Modernity: Understanding Benjamin
Peking University Press · 2025
This book offers a new interpretation of Walter Benjamin from the perspective of the urban wanderer. As an important pioneer of modernity studies, Ben…
The Interrogation Record
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2019
The novel The Interrogation recounts the vagrant life of Adam Pollo. In the eyes of the world, Adam is a person who idles all day, wandering on beache…
Another Person: Notes of a Shapeshifter (A Representative Work of the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Literature)
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2021
The Nobel laureate Imre Kertész’s reflection on and prophecy of the world after Auschwitz. Another One: The Notebooks of a Shapeshifter is the sequel …
Contemporary Architectural Thought Commentary Series: Utopia of Ruler and Compass
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2015
All the essays collected in this volume take 'contemporary China' as both the starting point and the destination for observing architecture and unders…