Social Movements and Latin American Philosophy : From Ciudad Juarez to Ayotzinapa

社會運動與拉丁美洲哲學：從華雷斯城到阿約濟納帕，從拉丁美洲哲學的角度對阿約濟納帕社會運動進行了歷史和理論分析，以加深對極端暴力背景下社會運動面臨的挑戰理解。路易斯•魯本•迪亞茲•塞佩達（Luis Ruben Diaz Cepeda）分析了完整的動員周期，涉及華雷斯城，正義與尊嚴和平運動以及阿約齊納帕社會運動。

在提出和解決這些問題時，迪亞茲•塞佩達（Diaz Cepeda）主張輕柔的表達方式以及對社會運動組織的長期需求。拉丁美洲研究，哲學、歷史和社會學的學者會發現這本書特別有用。

Social Movements and Latin American Philosophy: From Ciudad Juarez to Ayotzinapa provides a historical and theoretical analysis of the Ayotzinapa social movement from the perspective of Latin American philosophy to provide a deeper understanding of the challenges that social movements face in the context of extreme violence. Luis Ruben Diaz Cepeda analyzes the complete cycle of mobilization appertaining to Ciudad Juarez, the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, and the Ayotzinapa social movement. Guided by the theories of Enrique Dussel, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Ernesto Laclau, and Santiago Castro-Gomez, Diaz Cepeda addresses questions of how a social movement is born, how the distinct social movement organizations should articulate to form a movement of movements, what (if at all) the limits and extent of these organizations should be.

In raising and addressing such questions, Diaz Cepeda argues in favor of a soft articulation and the perennial need for social movement organizations. Scholars of Latin American studies, philosophy, history, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.

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Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel

大不列顛帝國和歷史小說中的經紀文化探討了19世紀英美“浪漫主義者”的歷史敏感性與18世紀帝國對話者用來想像和批評自己對英國分散而脆弱的經歷概念框架之間的關係。

Salyer認為，這種文化經歷比盧卡奇在拿破崙（Napoleon）之後寫大眾歷史意識時所想到的要多，它催生了沃爾特·斯科特（Walter Scott），詹姆斯·費尼莫爾·庫珀（James Fenimore Cooper），查爾斯·布羅克登·布朗和弗雷德里克·馬里亞特等作家的浪漫主義史學方法。本書對帝國歷史問題的許多原型創新回應，追溯了18世紀帝國演說家向19世紀的“浪漫”英雄的轉變，包括《年鑑》中的埃德蒙·伯克和著名的詹姆斯案。安妮斯利，等等。

作者認為，斯科特（Scott）的韋弗利（Waverley）和庫珀（Cooper）的《先驅者》（The Pioneers）等浪漫小說將敘述18世紀帝國的政治地理環境問題轉換為歷史論述，將談判帝國權威的歷史現實置於19世紀的核心，該項目虛構了現代民族國家政治歷史機構的可能性和局限性。

Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American "romancers" and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain's diffused, tenuous, and often accidental authority. Salyer argues that this cultural experience, more than what Lukacs had in mind when he wrote of a mass historical consciousness after Napoleon, gave rise to the Romantic historiographical approach of writers such as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Brockden Brown and Frederick Marryat. This book traces the conversion of the eighteenth-century imperial speaker into the nineteenth-century "romance" hero through a number of proto-novelistic responses to the problem of Imperial history, including Edmund Burke in the Annual Register and the celebrated court case of James Annesley, among others.

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Making Worlds : Affect and Collectivity in Contemporary European Cinema

二十一世紀見證了經濟不平等、種族排斥和政治仇恨的抬頭，這引起了集體認同和歸屬問題的緊迫性。克勞迪婭·布雷格（Claudia Breger）在《製作世界》中指出，當代歐洲電影提供了思考和感受集體的方式，可以挑戰這些政治趨勢。布雷格（Breger）對主要當代電影的細微讀物，如邁克爾·哈內克（Michael Haneke）​​的《白絲帶》（The White Ribbon），亞歷杭德羅·岡薩雷斯·因納里圖（Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu）的Biutiful，法提赫·阿金（Fatih Akin）的《天堂的邊緣》，阿斯加·法哈迪（Aghar Farhadi）的《分離》（A Separation）和阿基·考里斯梅基（Aki Kaurismaki）的難民三部曲，以及讓·盧卡·戈達爾（Jaki-Luc Godard）和賴納（Rainer）的作品Werner Fassbinder。

通過一種新的電影世界製作模式，布雷格研究了這些作品產生意想不到且不穩定的影響方式，這些影響力促使觀眾想像個人或群體之間的新聯繫。這些電影及其對難民、移民和社區的描寫並不僅僅是通過同情或團結呼籲來抵制政治上對仇恨和恐懼的想像。取而代之的是，它們會產生分層的敏感性，從而有可能對他人的現在、過去和將來的主張更加開放

布雷格借鑒了拉圖爾（Latour），德勒茲（Deleuze）和蘭西埃（Ranciere）的作品，涉及流派和現實主義問題以及電影現代主義的遺產。提供世界當代電影的豐富內容，《製作世界》將想像空間的電影創作理論化，以便找到應對政治仇恨的新方法。

The twenty-first century has witnessed a resurgence of economic inequality, racial exclusion, and political hatred, causing questions of collective identity and belonging to assume new urgency. In Making Worlds, Claudia Breger argues that contemporary European cinema provides ways of thinking about and feeling collectivity that can challenge these political trends. Breger offers nuanced readings of major contemporary films such as Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biutiful, Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven, Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, and Aki Kaurismaki's refugee trilogy, as well as works by Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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The Overworked Consumer : Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy

過度勞累的消費者研究自助服務技術在美國經濟中日益使用促使美國人免費在工作環境中執行各種任務的方式來促進美國人的忙碌和過度勞累的感覺。該書著重於零售食品行業中採用自助結賬通道，描述了自助服務技術如何在工作和休閒之間的界限日益模糊的經濟中改變服務的含義。

大型企業只是便宜又懶惰，是傾向於將工作自動化和外包給無薪消費者而不是提高工資，還是自助服務及其“自己動手”的精神，是對消費者更快、更輕鬆地購買商品需求的回應和服務？購物者通過自助結賬通道時會得到什麼？它真的比收銀員通道快嗎？還是僅僅只是一次虛幻的提速，就是要分散他們對他們正在執行無償工作認識的注意力，而無意中參加新零售實驗的參與者，其起源可以追溯到現代超市的發明？

那對工作的影響又如何呢？這是收銀員和類似工作形式收銀台的終點，還是對自動化的焦慮過高？為了回答這些問題，作者將讀者帶到區域連鎖超市SuperFood中，通過對經理、員工和顧客的廣泛採訪以及一系列示例、零售研究和統計數據來將事實與虛構分開，以找出問題所在。實際上發生在商店中。在談到兩個雜貨店的警告故事後，作者認為零售的未來仍未確定，這意味著購物者仍有時間決定他們是否真的想“自己動手做”，買者自負。

The Overworked Consumer examines how the growing use of self-service technology in the U.S. economy has contributed to Americans' feelings of busyness and overwork by asking them to perform a variety of tasks in work-like settings for free. Focusing on the adoption of self-checkout lanes in the retail food industry, the book describes how self-service technology is changing the meaning of service in an economy where the boundaries between work and leisure are becoming increasingly blurred.

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Stating the Sacred : Religion, China, and the Formation of the Nation-State

中國憲法明確將其主權領域稱為“神聖領土”。為什麼一個俗稱的世俗國家提出這樣的主張，這對宗教與民族國家之間的關係有何啟示？ 《聚焦神聖》主要論述中國問題，為民族國家的形成提供了一種新穎的方法，認為其最關鍵的要素是國家如何實現民族的神聖化。

他研究了文本（憲法、法律法規、國家歷史），表面上普遍和規範的類別（種族、宗教、公民身份、自由、人權）和領土性（主權的完整性以及對資源和人民的控制）之間的結構聯繫，展示他們如何被神聖束縛在一起。考慮到他所謂的各種政治理論技巧，沃爾什認為民族國家進行聖化是為了使建立和擴大主權的暴力合法化。歸根結底，地域化是聖化的一種形式，而神聖的基礎性作用使所有民族國家成為宗教國家。

《神聖宣言》為理解中國的合法性，控制民眾，宗教自由，人權和國際關係的結構提供了新的方式，並提出了關於民族國家基本性質的現實問題。

China's constitution explicitly refers to its sovereign domain as "sacred territory." Why does an avowedly secular state make such a claim, and what does this suggest about the relations between religion and the nation-state? Focusing primarily on China, Stating the Sacred offers a novel approach to nation-state formation, arguing that its most critical element is how the state sacralizes the nation. Michael J. Walsh explores the religious and political dimensions of Chinese state ideology, making the case that the sacred is a constitutive part of modern China.

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Where the Meanings Are : Feminism and Cultural Spaces

女權主義理論和種族關係論文集於1990年首次出版，被《聲音文學增刊》（Voice Literary Supplement）評為1988年最暢銷的25本書之一。標題涵蓋了黑人文學等主題；重建文化、改變藝術、文學和科學以納入婦女和性別主題、家庭的性質以及婦女在社會中的角色變化。因此，凱瑟琳·斯廷普森（Catharine Stimpson）採用跨學科方法，以鼓勵人們更好地理解女性之間的差異，從而從整體上理解社會構成的差異。

在後現代主義開始改變種族、階級和性別邊界的同時，講述了重新設計和設計文化空間時女權主義內部的某些論點。因此，對於對性別與文化、性別與性別差異、女權主義理論與文學之間的關係感興趣的學生和普通讀者而言，它將具有巨大的價值。

First published in 1990, this collection of essays in literary criticism, feminist theory and race relations was named one of the top twenty-five books of 1988 by the Voice Literary Supplement. The title covers such subjects as black literature; the reconstruction of culture, changing arts, letters and sciences to include the topics of women and gender; and, the nature of family and the changing roles of women within society. As such, Catharine Stimpson employs a transdisciplinary approach, to encourage greater understanding of the differences among women, and thus socially-constructed differences in general.

Where the Meanings Are tells of some of the arguments within feminism during the re-designing and designing of cultural spaces, as post-modernism began to change the boundaries of race, class, and gender. It will therefore be of great value to students and general readers with an interest in the relationship between gender and culture, sex and gender difference, feminist theory and literature.

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Musicology: The Key Concepts

在更新的第二版中，《音樂學：關鍵概念》是有關當代音樂學相關術語和概念的便捷A-Z參考指南。此更新版本借鑒了批判理論，側重於新音樂學，包括35多個新條目，包括：自傳音樂和衝突解構、後殖民主義、殘疾音樂、9/11之後的同性戀音樂、同性戀音樂美學、種族主體性、隨著所有條目的更新以及對全文的建議，這是所有學生的必讀資源，音樂學與表演相關更廣泛的人文學科。

Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35 new entries including:AutobiographyMusic and ConflictDeconstructionPostcolonialismDisabilityMusic after 9/11MasculinityGay MusicologyAestheticsEthnicityInterpretationSubjectivityWith all entries updated, and suggestions for further reading throughout, this text is an essential resource for all students of music, musicology, and wider performance related humanities disciplines.

David Beard  (Auther) 

Publisher:Routledge

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Law and the Unconscious : A Legendre Reader

《法律與無意識》是法國法律哲學家皮埃爾·勒讓傑（Pierre Legendre）首次以英語發表的著作。皮埃爾·勒讓格（Pierre Legendre）受過律師、歷史學家和心理分析員的培訓，一直以來都通過心理分析的教學和方法來面對法律。當前的論文集包含引人入勝的主題，包括對眼淚、舞蹈和法律的教義調節、絕對的渴望、文本的戰爭以及圖像的力量。

Law and the Unconscious is the first work of the French legal philosopher Pierre Legendre to appear in English. Trained as a lawyer, a historian and a psychoanalyst, the work of Pierre Legendre has consistently confronted law with the teaching and methods of psychoanalysis. The present collection of essays addresses a fascinating and diverse set of themes including the doctrinal regulation of tears, dance and law, the desire for the absolute, the war of texts, and the power of images.

Pierre Legendre  (Auther) 

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

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Constructing China : Clashing Views of the People's Republic

多年來，中國的經濟和政治崛起激起了世界範圍內的恐懼，甚至是偏執狂。但是，我們如何獲得有關中國的信息，以及如何真正產生對中國的了解？

《建設中國》詳細探討了我們建立中國知識的方式。高摩波拒絕了經驗統計的所謂客觀性，並質疑西方自由民主與中國威權主義之間二分法的假設，剖析了中國評論員的政治議程和概念框架，並敦促左右派人士謹慎批評他們對國家的政治，經濟和歷史的看法。

For years now, China’s economic and political rise has provoked fear—even paranoia—around the world. But how do we get our information about China, and how are our understandings of it actually produced?

Constructing China presents a detailed examination of the means through which our knowledge of China is created. Rejecting the supposed objectivity of empirical statistics and challenging the assumption of a dichotomy between Western liberal democracy and Chinese authoritarianism, Mobo Gao dissects the political agenda and conceptual framework of commentators on China and urges those on the right and the left alike to be carefully critical of their own views on the nation’s politics, economics, and history.

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Rebel Power : Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win

從阿爾及利亞到愛爾蘭再到美國，世界上許多州都是強大的民族運動實現獨立的結果。許多其他民族運動，包括巴斯克人、庫爾德人和巴勒斯坦人，都未能成功地實現建國。在《叛軍力量》中，彼得·克勞斯（Peter Krause）提供了強有力的新理論來解釋這種差異，著眼於民族主義團體之間的內部力量平衡，這些民族主義者相互合作以建立一個新國家，同時競爭領導一個新國家。最有權勢的集團會在統治自己的狀態下推動建立國家，而較弱勢的集團不太可能獲得任職的地位還可能會成為破壞者，他們會冒險的利用不斷升級的暴力來阻止勝利，同時提高他們在運動體系中的地位。因此，與一個內部競爭的，支離破碎的運動相比，具有一個統治集團的霸權運動更有可能取得國家地位，這是因為它們更加追求勝利，並且較少使用適得其反的暴力。

克勞斯（Krause）在中東、北非和歐洲政府和民族主義團體檔案館中進行了多年的實地考察，並對巴勒斯坦、猶太復國主義者、阿爾及利亞和愛爾蘭民族運動的參與者進行了150多次採訪。這項研究對這四個民族運動進行了縱向比較分析，這些運動涉及140個奮鬥時期的44個運動中的40個團體。克勞斯（Krause）指出了這些運動歷史上的新轉折點，並為其使用暴力和非暴力策略以及其成敗提供了新的解釋。反叛力量不僅對於了解民族運動的歷史，而且對於理解當今有爭議的集體行動的起因和後果，從阿拉伯之春到敘利亞、阿富汗、伊拉克及其他地區的內戰和叛亂，都是必不可少的讀物。

Many of the world's states―from Algeria to Ireland to the United States―are the result of robust national movements that achieved independence. Many other national movements have failed in their attempts to achieve statehood, including the Basques, the Kurds, and the Palestinians. In Rebel Power, Peter Krause offers a powerful new theory to explain this variation focusing on the internal balance of power among nationalist groups, who cooperate with each other to establish a new state while simultaneously competing to lead it. The most powerful groups push to achieve states while they are in position to rule them, whereas weaker groups unlikely to gain the spoils of office are likely to become spoilers, employing risky, escalatory violence to forestall victory while they improve their position in the movement hierarchy. Hegemonic movements with one dominant group are therefore more likely to achieve statehood than internally competitive, fragmented movements due to their greater pursuit of victory and lesser use of counterproductive violence.

Krause conducted years of fieldwork in government and nationalist group archives in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, as well as more than 150 interviews with participants in the Palestinian, Zionist, Algerian, and Irish national movements. This research generated comparative longitudinal analyses of these four national movements involving 40 groups in 44 campaigns over a combined 140 years of struggle. Krause identifies new turning points in the history of these movements and provides fresh explanations for their use of violent and nonviolent strategies, as well as their numerous successes and failures. Rebel Power is essential reading for understanding not only the history of national movements but also the causes and consequences of contentious collective action today, from the Arab Spring to the civil wars and insurgencies in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.

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Maria Edgeworth's Letters from Ireland

2018年1月1日將是Maria Edgeworth誕辰250週年。瓦萊麗·帕克納姆（Valerie Pakenham）精選了超過四百封信件，她出生於英國，十四歲時被帶到愛爾蘭居住，餘生的大部分時間都在公司Edgeworthstown，Co.的家中度過。

。瑪麗亞·埃奇沃思（Maria Edgeworth）的死後名望逐漸減少，只有她的第一本小說《城堡·拉克倫特城堡》（Castle Rackrent，1800）是愛爾蘭貴族制的傑出代表，至今仍被廣泛閱讀。但是，她是一位多產而迷人的書信作家。她堅持說自己的信僅供私人使用，但死後，她的繼母和同父異母的姐姐用精心挑選的摘錄為朋友們製作了私人回憶錄。

從1825年起，瑪麗亞（Maria）的來信便反映了愛爾蘭的六十年歷史，從格拉頓（Garttan）議會的蓬勃發展時期到1798年叛亂的危險，再到奧康奈爾（O'Connell）的崛起以及天主教徒的解放鬥爭。在老年時，她積極工作以減輕大饑荒，並寫了她的最後一個故事以籌集82歲的錢。故事，幽默，當地和高級八卦的寶庫，她的信顯示了她極大的興趣範圍：歷史、政治、文學和科學。

Their literary quality was spotted by Augustus Hare, whose shortened version, The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, appeared in 1894. In the 1970s Maria's great great niece, Christina Colvin edited Maria Edgeworth's Letters from England and Maria Edgeworth in France & Switzerland. No one, however, has revisited fully Maria's original letters from the place she loved and knew best: Ireland.

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Writer to Writer : The Republic of Elsewhere

這是一個跨類型的訪談和論文集，詳細敘述了與世界上許多最重要作家的親密接觸。由編輯和資深記者西亞蘭·卡蒂（Ciaran Carty）提供的照片和充滿魅力的評論穿插其中，揭示出這些原本不同的人物之間令人驚訝的，常常是意想不到的相互聯繫。這些作品單獨提供了一些世界上最具創造力難得一見的思想；他們共同探討諸如歷史、政治、性和階級等話題，同時也反映了愛爾蘭主要評論家和廣播公司之一傑出而廣泛的職業生涯。這本書充斥著軼事，個人供詞和熱情的宣言，是文學愛好者和有抱負的作家的權威收藏。

Margaret Atwood, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney and Salman Rushdie feature in this collection of over forty interviews with award-winning authors. This is a genre-crossing collection of interviews and essays that recounts in intimate detail encounters with many of the world’s foremost writers. Interspersed are photos as well as a charismatic commentary, provided by editor and veteran journalist Ciaran Carty, revealing a surprising, often unexpected interconnectedness between these otherwise distinct figures. Individually, these pieces provide a rare glimpse inside some of the world’s most creative minds; collectively, they address topics such as history, politics, sexuality, and class, while also reflecting the distinguished and wide-ranging career of one of Ireland’s leading critics and broadcasters. Filled with laugh-out-loud anecdotes, personal confessions, and passionate declarations, this book is the definitive collection for literature enthusiasts and aspiring writers alike.

Ciaran Carty (Auther) 

Publisher:The Lilliput Press; Illustrated.

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