Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, the pursuit of liberty and freedom can lead to violence and repression, undermining our trust in universal theories of liberalism, neoliberalism, and cosmopolitanism.
Combining his passions for politics and geography, David Harvey charts a cosmopolitan order more appropriate to an emancipatory form of global governance. Political agendas tend to fail, he argues, because they ignore the complexities of geography. Incorporating geographical knowledge into the formation of social and political policy is therefore a necessary condition for genuine democracy.
Harvey begins with an insightful critique of the political uses of freedom and liberty, especially during the George W. Bush administration. Then, through an ontological investigation into geography's foundational conceptsspace, place, and environmenthe radically reframes geographical knowledge as a basis for social theory and political action. As Harvey makes clear, the cosmopolitanism that emerges is rooted in human experience rather than illusory ideals and brings us closer to achieving the liberation we seek.

From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world’s great societies for the first time at the end of the first millennium.

In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuries immediately prior to AD 1000 were lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn’t yet discovered North America, that the farthest anyone had traveled over sea was the Vikings’ invasion of Britain. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired people in Mayan temple murals in Chichen Itza, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Mayan empire?

Valerie Hansen, a much-honored historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world’s first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research on medieval China and global history, she presents a compelling account of first encounters between disparate societies. As people on at least five continents ventured outward, they spread technology, new crops, and religion. These encounters, she shows, made it possible for Christopher Columbus to reach the Americas in 1492, and set the stage for the process of globalization that so dominates the modern era.

For readers of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens , The Year 1000 is an intellectually daring, provocative account that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about how the modern world came to be. It will also hold up a mirror to the hopes and fears we experience today.

《世界主义的人文视景》编选了海内外知名学者关于中国现代文学与文化的精彩论文近三十篇。这些论文既有对中国现代文学现代性的重新思考，也有对华语语系文学的拓展；既有文学的呈现，也有对华语语系文学的拓展；既有文学的呈现，也有跨学科的视野，其核心主题是展现海内外中国现代文学研究领域世界主义的人文视景，以此向该领域的领军者、哈佛大学荣休教授、李欧梵教授致敬。

康有为的名字，既象征着一个风云变幻的时代，又包孕着亟待发掘的丰富内涵。他忧患多思的情怀，使之在实践层面上居为疾呼改革的活动家；他超迈磅礴的才气，又使之在精神向度上成为富于创意的思想家。上述双重因素构成了有机的张力，激励他既在儒家价值范式之导引下渴望与时俱进的制度创新，以期当今世界能走向变法图强的中国，更在外缘文化的刺激下憧憬儒家思想的自我递进，以期其命维新的中国能走向未来的世界。然而，无论在国内学术界，还是在国际汉学界，对于康有为的研究成果，似都难与其显要的地位相称。正因此，萧公权先生晚年的这部平心之作，才更有重要的参考价值。萧先生在大批的康氏未刊手稿的支持下，以同情的了解和细密的笔触，既凸显了这位“南海圣人”特重人际关系的问题意识，也还原了他纵笔代圣贤立言的畅想过程。由是，《近代中国与新世界:康有为变法与大同思想研究》通过对一位“儒家修正主义者”的追述，提示了一种激发古代思想生机的哲学式态度，和一条活泼的传承文化资源的创造性思路。