Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.

Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images—literary, visual, and filmic—that configure past as well as contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.
Eng juxtaposes theortical discussions of Freud, Lacan, and Fanon with critical readings of works by Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Lonny Kaneko, David Henry Hwang, Louie Chu, David Wong Louie, Ang Lee, and R. Zamora Linmark. While situating these literary and cultural productions in relation to both psychoanalytic theory and historical events of particular significance for Asian Americans, Eng presents a sustained analysis of dreamwork and photography, the mirror stage and the primal scene, and fetishism and hysteria. In the process, he offers startlingly new interpretations of Asian American masculinity in its connections to immigration exclusion, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, multiculturalism, and the model minority myth. After demonstrating the many ways in which Asian American males are haunted and constrained by enduring domestic norms of sexuality and race, Eng analyzes the relationship between Asian American male subjectivity and the larger transnational Asian diaspora. Challenging more conventional understandings of diaspora as organized by race, he instead reconceptualizes it in terms of sexuality and queerness.
Racial Castration will make a landmark contribution to the fields of Asian American studies, psychoanalytic theory, ethnic studies, feminism, queer theory, gay and lesbian studies, postcoloniality, and critical race theory.

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the Closet". Working from classic texts of European and American writers - including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde -Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In her preface to this updated edition Sedgwick places the book both personally and historically, looking specifically at the horror of the first wave of the AIDS epidemic and its influence on the text.

The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. "Cruising Utopia" seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernest Bloch, Jose Esteban Munoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O'Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future. In a startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear, Munoz contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound phenomenon, a 'not yet here' that critically engages pragmatic presentism. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, "Cruising Utopia" argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.

As Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased border control and identity documentation is the continuation of more than 150 years of globalization. Not only are modern passports and national borders inseparable from the rise of global mobility, but they are also tied to the emergence of individuals and nations as the primary sites of global power and identity. McKeown's detailed history traces how, rather than being a legacy of "traditional" forms of sovereignty, practices of border control historically rose from attempts to control Asian migration around the Pacific in the 1880s. New policies to control mobility had to be justified in the context of contemporary liberal ideas of freedom and mobility, generating principles that are taken for granted today, such as the belief that migration control is a sovereign right of receiving nations and that it should occur at a country's borders. McKeown shows how the enforcement of these border controls required migrants to be extracted from social networks of identity and reconstructed as isolated individuals within centralized filing systems.
Methods for excluding Asians from full participation in the "family of civilized nations" are now the norm between all nations. These practices also helped institutionalize global cultural and economic divisions, such as East/West and First and Third World designations, which continue to shape our understanding.

With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites.

In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its reproductions, and with globalization redefining national and cultural boundaries, "translation" is now emerging as a reformulated subject of lively, interdisciplinary debate. "Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation" enters the heart of this debate. It covers an exceptional range of topics, from simultaneous translation to legal theory, from the language of exile to the language of new nations, from the press to the cinema; and cultures and languages from contemporary Bengal to ancient Japan, from translations of Homer to the work of Don DeLillo.All twenty-two essays, by leading voices including Gayatri Spivak and the late Edward Said, are provocative and persuasive. The book's four sections - "Translation as Medium and across Media," "The Ethics of Translation," "Translation and Difference," and "Beyond the Nation" - together provide a comprehensive view of current thinking on nationality and translation, one that will be widely consulted for years to come. The contributors are Jonathan E. Abel, Emily Apter, Sandra Bermann, Vilashini Cooppan, Stanley Corngold, David Damrosch, Robert Eaglestone, Stathis Gourgouris, Pierre Legrand, Jacques Lezra, Francoise Lionnet, Sylvia Molloy, Yopie Prins, Edward Said, Azade Seyhan, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Henry Staten, Lawrence Venuti, Lynn Visson, Gauri Viswanathan, Samuel Weber, and Michael Wood.

1957年，法国女演员（埃曼纽尔•莉娃）来到日本广岛拍摄一部宣传和平的电影时，邂逅当地的建筑工程师（冈田英次），两人在短暂时间内忘记各自的有夫之妇、有妇之夫身份，产生忘我恋情。
然而因为广岛这块土地的特殊性，两人在激情相拥时，女演员脑海中总会闪现若干有关战争的残酷画面，建筑工程师也常令她回忆起她在战时于法国小城内韦尔与一名德国占领军的爱情。电影拍摄结束后，被纠缠的女演员感觉自己唯一能做的，是在有限的时间里，更加投入地把身体交于建筑工程师。

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.
A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.

本书是现代西方学术文库之一，全书分上下两大部分对电影理论的进行了详细分析，并收入了包括于果·明斯特伯格，巴拉兹·贝拉，爱森斯坦，吉加·维尔托夫，鲁道夫·爱因汉姆等电影大师的知名电影理论，适合电影研究人员参考学习。

The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? Lydia H. Liu offers here the first rigorous study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious.
Liu’s innovative analysis brings the work of theorists and writers back into conversation with one another to document significant meetings of minds and disciplines. She shows how the earlier avant-garde literary experiments with alphabetical writing and the word-association games of psychoanalysis contributed to the mathematical making of digital media. Such intellectual convergence, she argues, completed the transformation of alphabetical writing into the postphonetic, ideographic system of digital media, which not only altered the threshold of sense and nonsense in communication processes but also compelled a new understanding of human-machine interplay at the level of the unconscious.
Ranging across information theory, cybernetics, modernism, literary theory, neurotic machines, and psychoanalysis, The Freudian Robot rewrites the history of digital media and the literary theory of the twentieth century.

《现实的社会建构》是知识社会学的经典之作，也是社会建构论的扛鼎之作，更是社会学领域影响较大的著作之一。该书不仅将知识社会学的考察范围，从少数人关心的科学和理论知识，拓展到一般人在日常生活中用以指导行动的知识，而且以生动的笔法，揭示了作为“客观现实”和“主观现实”的社会，到底是如何构成的，又具有怎样的特性。
本书融汇了现象学的洞察与人文主义的关怀。对于矫治社会学理论的退缩，该书至今仍有警示和启迪作用。
本书出版于1967年，是社会学领域的一本经典，是一本与库恩的《科学革命的结构》、韦伯的《新教伦理与资本主义精神》、涂尔干的《自杀论》齐名的社会学经典。本书的问世，开启了社会科学领域一个跨学科的学派——社会建构主义。

结构主义及解构主义的时代，法国知识界激情燃烧的岁月。法国知识分子经历了痛苦的磨难。他们曾经喜怒哀乐，他们曾经悲欢离合，他们曾为卑迪斯科者鸣冤叫屈，他们曾为刽子手高唱赞歌……总之是有血有肉的人生，总之是曲折动人的感情，总之是惊涛骇浪的思想，总之是那个时代特有的强烈共鸣。思想的来龙去脉，人物的恩恩怨怨，思潮的跌宕起伏，道德路的波折坎河……尽在其中矣，他们最终创造一个崭新的知识王国，重绘了人类的知识地图，改变了世界的知识走向，成为20世界最具冲击力的思想之源。

《从文本到行动》汇集了利科在20世纪70—80年代发表的重要系列论文，这些文本代表了利科研究诠释学的一个重要阶段：从现象学到诠释学，从文本诠释到行动诠释；对话语和叙事作出反思，并对意识形态与处于城邦核心的人的行动进行追问的同时，利科强调了介入这两者之间的诸种关系。
在《从文本到行动》中，利科逐渐摆脱了要在其他学科面前捍卫诠释学的焦虑，他从胡塞尔现象学与诠释学的关系以及诠释学自身的历史看到了自己研究的独特角度和价值：立足于文本理论建构一种超越施莱尔马赫、狄尔泰、海德格尔甚至伽达默尔的诠释学，并且将之应用于解释人的行动、社会意识形态，从而建立新的政治和伦理。

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★二十世纪现代主义和女性主义先驱弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫最振聋发聩的女性主义宣言
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伍尔夫的《一间自己的房间》，本是基于两篇讲稿。一九二八年 十月二十日和二十六日，伍尔夫自伦敦两次来剑桥大学，分别在纽纳姆女子学院手戈廷女子学院，就女性与小说一题发表演讲。此后，一九二九年三月，她将两次演讲合为一文，以《女性与小说》为题，发表在美国杂志《论坛》上。而此时，她 的小说《奥兰多》出版，为自己造成了一座小楼，并在这里，将《女性与小说》大加修改和扩充。
该作以“妇女和小说”为主题，通过对女性创作的历史及现状的分析，指出女人应该有勇气有理智地去争取独立的经济力量和社会地位，只有这样，女人才能平静而客观地思考，才能不怀胆怯和怨恨地进行创作，从而使被历史埋没了的诗情得以复活。该作被誉为振聋发聩的“女性主义文学宣言”。

列斐伏尔结合超现实主义、法国的黑格尔主义、尼采和存在主义等思潮，用马克思主义异化理论推进对日常生活领域的批判。所谓异化，在于资本主义社会是一个交换价值超越、脱离使用价值的社会，一个为生产而生产而不是为日常生活而生产的社会，这就导致了资本主义社会中生活意义消失的异化现象。前工业社会中人对自然、暴力统治的直接恐惧不见了，人们今天生活在一个无法逃脱的符号化、抽象化、功能化时代。列斐伏尔把日常生活的琐碎细节作为其分析的出发点和指引，这一日常生活经验为商品侵入，被非本真遮蔽，但它呈现为抵抗和更新社会生活的基础。日常生活具有可能性，可能性这一列斐伏尔常用的词语蕴含了变革的需求，他始终坚持，今天的社会解放一定是总体性的，是日常生活的节日化、艺术化与瞬间化。