Frontier Issues Frontier Thinking: Tracking and Exploring Contemporary Western Academic Frontiers

Author: Xue Xiaoyuan
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: The Global Risk World: Interviews with Professor Ulrich Beck, the renowned German sociologist and founder of the "Risk Society" theory; The Tension between Understanding and Interpretation: Interviews with Professor Gerhard Bonner, the renowned German sinologist. Since the 1990s, the wave of globalization has swept across the world with overwhelming force, eradicating every aspect of human life and inspiring various challenges and issues. Academia has strongly felt unprecedented pressure and suffering. Humanist scholars are reflecting: in the era of information explosion, spatial and temporal compression, rapid interaction, and the flow of risks, what should we do? This book is a response from a young scholar to the various cutting-edge issues brought by globalization. Through face-to-face dialogues with academic masters from China and the West, it sorts out and introduces academic discourses on Western cutting-edge issues, placing the urgency and modernity of these issues at the forefront, making them impossible to ignore.