Frontier Issues Frontier Thinking (Tracking and Exploring Contemporary Western Academic Frontiers)

Author: Xue Xiaoyuan
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Global Risk World: An Interview with Professor Ulrich Beck, a Renowned German Sociologist and Founder of the "Risk Society" Theory; The Tension Between Understanding and Interpretation: An Interview with Professor Gerhard Doerries, a Renowned German Sinologist. Since the 1990s, the wave of globalization has swept across the world with overwhelming force, reshaping every aspect of human life, sparking various challenges and issues, and placing unprecedented pressure and distress on academia. Humanities scholars are reflecting: In the era of information explosion, spatial and temporal compression, rapid interaction, and fluid 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 both 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.