《武士道》一书是作者于1899年在美国宾夕法尼亚州养病时，有感于外国人对日本的传统武士道知之甚少，为了向国外介绍而用英文写成的。由于作者本人是一个在幼年时亲自接受过武士道传统教育的日本人，因此，正如作者所说，他在介绍时，与别的外国的日本研究者至多只不过是个“辩护律师”不同，“可以采取被告人的态度”。的确，我们在读到他所系统介绍的武士道的种种方。面时，颇有入木三分之感。同时，由于作者是为了向国外作介绍而写的，行文中大量引用了西方的历史和文学典故进行比较，所以就更便于外国读者阅读和理解。正因为如此，本书一出版就引起了外国读者的极大兴趣。据作者自序说，当时的美国总统西奥多·罗斯福不仅自己亲自读了此书，还以此书分赠其友人。光是本书的日本版从1900年到1905年的6年之间就重版了10次，本书还被译成了多种文字，在世界的日本研究书目中占有重要位置。目前在我国的日本研究正深入到探讨日本的文化传统、民族特性对当代日本的影响之时，相信把这本颇享盛名的著作译为中文以飨读者，或许不无意义。自然，由于本书是在将近一个世纪之前写出来的，其中有些观点不免有过时之感，同时，由于作者本人的立场所限，有些观点也很值得商榷。这是希望读者们注意的。

“菊”本是日本皇室家徽，“刀”是武士道文化的象征。美国人类学家鲁思・本尼迪克特用《菊与刀》来揭示日本人的矛盾性格亦即日本文化的双重性(如爱美而黩武、尚礼而好斗、喜新而顽固、服从而不驯等)……

等级是什么？它不是你的职业，不是你居住的地方，不是你的餐桌举止，不是你有多少钱或者你能挣多少钱。等级是一系列细微事物的组合，你很难说清楚。正是这些细微的品质确立了你在这个世界上的位置。作者通过敏锐的观察、独特的视角、鞭辟入里的分析和机智幽默的文笔，把美国社会中的社会等级现象和三六九等人的品味做了细致入微的对比。 一本精确而刺痛人的社会等级指南。

本书所讲述的是一个关于“盛世妖术”的故事。在中国的千年帝制时代，乾隆皇帝可谓是空前绝后的一人。他建立并巩固起来的大清帝国达到了权力与威望的顶端。然而整个大清的政治与社会生活却被一股名为“叫魂”的妖术之天错地暗。在1768年由春天到秋天的那几个月里，这股妖风竟然冲击了半个中国，百性为之惶恐，官员为之奔命，连乾隆也为之寝食难安。作者细致入微的描写令人颤栗，他生动地再现了各省的恐慌是如何演变成一场全国性的除妖运动。
本书也表现出了一种更为宏大的学术视野，在构建以“叫魂”案为中心的“大叙事”的过程中，在方法论的层次上将社会史、文化史、政治史、经济史、区域分析、官僚科层制度分析以及心理分析等研究方法结合在一起。本书可作为学生必读参考书。

本书讲述的华中地区某乡镇基层政权、村级组织和农民在复杂的互动结构中博弈共生的过程和状况，为读者提供了新颖而富启发性的视角，是一部有一定思想冲击力的学术著作。
本书采用“讲故事”的方式叙述，生动展现了农村基层政权以及村、组织和农民个体多方面多层次的工作和生活实态，人物鲜活、情节曲折、可读性强，同时又对描述的对象进行了深入的分析和阐释，是对当下中国农村的不可多得的“深度描写”。

这是一本关于1949年后林村和林村人的民族志著作。全书以福建厦门农村党支部书记叶文德富于戏剧性的生命史为主轴，展现铺陈出一幅幅贯穿时空背景的社会文化变迁图像。作者黄树民长期在中国大陆及台湾的农村进行田野调查和研究。在此书中，他想要揭示的是，在中国农民的生活普遍得到改善的情形下，一种全国性文化抬头，传统上小型、半自治而独立的农村社区，逐渐被以中央政府为主的大众文化所取代，然而，某些传统的信仰与习俗仍得以延续。

社会学不仅是个名词，更是个动词。它不是我们拥有的东西，而是我们要去傲的东西。我们对个人主义模型的过于信赖及对社会力量的低估，代表了对自由图景的歪曲认识。对于自我与社会之间的关系及差异性后果的正确评价，可以让我们作出更加明智的选择，更好地塑造未来。它为“我们为什么会照我们所想的那样去想”和“我们为什么会照我们所做的那样去做”提供了答案。社会学不应该只局限于大学课堂之中，也不应该只属于专业人士。可以说，我们人人都是社会学家，许多工作都在等着我们一起去完成，包括创建希望社会学。

繼《西洋經濟史的趣味》之後，賴建成教授2010年推出《經濟史的趣味》，延續一慣知性，輕鬆，好讀，有趣的風格，延伸出「中國經濟史」的部份，讓讀者能更全面的理解、參照、進入和人類生活習習相關的經濟世界。是難得一見的推廣型的著作。本書所挑選的文章，大都輕鬆有趣，從全世界成千上萬位經濟史學者努力的成果中，找出適合大眾閱讀的幾篇。分為上部《西洋經濟史的趣味》及下部《中國經濟史的趣味》共66篇文章。

Which paradigm of critique -- Foucault's or Habermas's -- is philosophically and practically superior, especially with regard to the nature and role of power in contemporary society? In shaping this collection, Michael Kelly has sought to address this question in relation to the ethical, political, and social theory of the past two decades.Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas had only just begun to come to terms with one another's work when Foucault died in 1984; they had even discussed the possibility of a formal debate on "Enlightenment" in the neutral arena of the United States. In the decade since, Habermas and his supporters have continued to respond to Foucault in various ways, but Foucault's followers have not shown as strong an inclination to keep up his side of the dialogue. For this reason an invaluable exchange on the nature and limits of philosophy in the present age has never achieved its full potential.In this anthology Michael Kelly recasts the debate in a way that will open it up for further development. The book starts by juxtaposing key texts from the two philosophers; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alternative approaches to power and critique. (Two of these essays were written especially for this volume.) The result is a guide for those seeking to understand and build on this important but unfinished debate.Essays by: Michel Foucault. Jurgen Habermas. Axel Honneth. Nancy Fraser. Richard Bernstein. Thomas McCarthy. James Schmidt and Thomas E. Wartenberg. Gilles Deleuze. Jana Sawicki. Michael Kelly.

"Aesthetics" is the second in a three-volume, definitive collection of Michel Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars. It focuses primarily upon the philosophy, literature and other works of the imagination which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power and includes Foucault's arresting commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Roussel and Boulez. 'A magnificent, essential compendium, in the absence of which the man, the thinker and his thought would have been amputated, unfinished and incompletely understood' - Liberation.

How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others--the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest--are at the heart of this novel inquiry into the meeting place between normative theories of what we think we should do and empirical studies of who we actually are. A grand and sweeping statement, The Civil Sphere is a major contribution to our thinking about the real but ideal world in which we all reside.

"Barthes par Barthes is a genuinely post-modern autobiography, an innovation in the art of autobiography comparable in its theoretical implications for our understanding of autobiography to Sartre's The Words."--Hayden White, University of California

In the middle ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the eighteenth century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society, and this in effect meant a change from punishment, which chastised the body, to reform, which touched the soul.
Foucault shows in fascinating detail the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies of social control --- and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole. He also reveals that the comparison between a school and a prison is not purely facetious --- prisons, schools, factories, barracks and hospitals all share a common organization, in which it is possible to control the use of an individual's time and space hour by hour.

When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant. Pirouetting around the outer edge of language, Foucault unsettles the surface of literary writing. In describing the limitations of our usual taxonomies, he opens the door onto a whole new system of thought, one ripe with what he calls "exotic charm". Intellectual pyrotechnics from the master of critical thinking, this book is crucial reading for those who wish to gain insight into that odd beast called Postmodernism, and a must for any fan of Foucault.

This is an introduction to Foucault's thought, which includes some previously unpublished material.

Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize social life, Foucault discusses literature, music, and the power of art while also examining concrete issues such as the Left in contemporary France, the social security system, the penal system, homosexuality, madness, and the Iranian Revolution.

The politics of the internet has entered the social science mainstream. From debates about its impact on parties and election campaigns following momentous presidential contests in the United States, to concerns over international security, privacy and surveillance in the post-9/11, post-7/7 environment; from the rise of blogging as a threat to the traditional model of journalism, to controversies at the international level over how and if the internet should be governed by an entity such as the United Nations; from the new repertoires of collective action open to citizens, to the massive programs of public management reform taking place in the name of e-government, internet politics and policy are continually in the headlines.The "Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics" is a collection of over thirty chapters dealing with the most significant scholarly debates in this rapidly growing field of study. Organized in four broad sections: Institutions, Behavior, Identities, and Law and Policy, the Handbook summarizes and criticizes contemporary debates while pointing out new departures. A comprehensive set of resources, it provides linkages to established theories of media and politics, political communication, governance, deliberative democracy and social movements, all within an interdisciplinary context. The contributors form a strong international cast of established and junior scholars. This is the first publication of its kind in this field; a helpful companion to students and scholars of politics, international relations, communication studies and sociology.

Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together Van Leeuwen's methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15 years. Discourse, Van Leeuwen argues, is a resource for representation, a knowledge about some aspect of reality which can be drawn upon when that aspect of reality has to be represented, a framework for making sense of things. And they are plural. There can be different discourses, different ways of making sense of the same aspect of reality that serve different interests and will therefore be used in different social contexts. However abstract some discourses are, discourses ultimately always represent doings, Van Leeuwen argues. Doing is the foundation of knowing, and social practices are the foundation of discourses. Studying children's books, newspaper reports, brochures and other texts, as well as photographs and children's toys, Van Leeuwen investigates what can happen when practices are transformed into discourses and provides analytical tools for reconstructing discourses from texts.Throughout the book, Van Leeuwen makes connections between sociological and linguistic or semiotic concepts and methods to ensure the social and critical relevance of his analytical categories. Van Leeuwen's work has already been widely used by critical discourse analysts across the world. This volume will be a welcome guide for anyone looking for a form of discourse analysis that is both explicit and methodical, and critically incisive.