"Emotion, Material and Contemporaneity" Author: Wang Min'an Publisher: Shandong People's Publishing House

★A new masterpiece on contemporary cultural research by Wang Min'an, a famous scholar and professor at Tsinghua University.

★A cultural exploration of contemporaneity, re-examining emotions, materials, language and art in daily life.

★A cultural research feast that breaks the fixed theoretical framework and patiently and clearly traces and sorts out contemporary cultural issues.

★ Provide a clear explanation of the concept of "contemporaneity", which is often abused but always unclear.

★ Calmly and clearly outlines the historical origins between philosophers who have had a profound influence on contemporary culture.

★The spiritual lesson left to us: let positive emotions fight against negative emotions, and let hearty laughter overwhelm those heartbreaking sobs.

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Activate the theory, let it flow, and run everywhere, even drag it to places I can't predict. I believe that giving a closed and reductive interpretation to the theory is actually killing the theory. (Wang Min'an)

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In contemporary Chinese theoretical writing, Wang Min'an is a unique writer and thinker. He travels through the theoretical space between philosophy, literature, art and daily life scenes, wanders in the neutral zone between academic writing and theoretical essays, and constructs a series of visual theoretical screens, placing us in a poetic space where theory and reality are intertwined.

——Dong Shubao (Professor, researcher and translator of French contemporary critical theory)

In terms of expounding his thoughts, Wang Min'an possesses both the calmness and precision of a scalpel and the elegance and insight of a poet.

——Hu Ranran (writer, poet, former chief editor of New Weekly)

Professor Wang Min'an's translations of Deleuze, Blanchot, Badiou, Agamben, etc., have largely led the development of domestic critical theory. His influence is not limited to the academic world. His influence in the field of art criticism is also well known. He is a pioneer theorist and a pioneer critic.

——Liu Tiange and Huang Chonghang (University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Professor Wang Min'an always remains honest and curious, breaks through the boundaries of the humanities as much as possible, and remains alert to current realities.

——China's Most Attractive Person of 2017 by Southern People Weekly

From literary studies to philosophy, to aesthetics, to art, and then to cultural criticism, Professor Wang Min'an has the charm of a French philosopher.

——Zhihu readers

=====Introduction=====

Scholar Wang Min'an's new masterpiece of contemporary cultural research is a cultural exploration centered on the three major themes of "emotion, material, and contemporaneity", re-examining emotions, materials, language, and art in daily life. The three major themes are interrelated and reflect each other, revealing that cultural issues ultimately affect people's emotions, literature, art, and business, affect the relationship between people and society, and infiltrate and influence everyone's living conditions. This is a feast of cultural research that breaks the old theoretical framework, a fruitful tracing of the roots of contemporaneity, and leads to thought-provoking questions: In the current era, do people and subjects in the humanistic sense still exist? Has human subjectivity been destroyed and replaced by materials, symbols, machines, traffic, data, etc.?

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