"Bersama Mas Pram mengungkap sisi-sisi kehidupan Pramoedya Ananta Toer, novelis terbesar Indonesia, yang jarang diketahui umum. Misalnya, tentang kehidupan seksualnya, kegiatan kerjanya, pandangannya tentang wanita dan perkawinan, aktivitasnya menjelang 1965, sikapnya tentang Tuhan dan doa, cara dia mendidik adik-adiknya, sampai percakapan-percakapan ketika dia ditangkap tahun 1965. Memoar i…
By the dawn of the 19th century, the Netherlands had established colonies and trading posts across Asia and the rest of the world, linking them directly to international networks of intellectual exchange and production. Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and c…
Distinguished scholar Mikhail Epstein offers a re-assessment of the role of the humanities and advocates their constructive potential for the society and intellectual culture of the future. In his famous classification of the sciences, Francis Bacon not only catalogued those branches of knowledge that already existed in his time, but also anticipated the new disciplines he believed would eme…
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and th…
Greetings from Jakarta: Postcards of a Capital 1900-1950 is the most comprehensive visual record of Jakarta ever published covering the first half of the twentieth century which was also the last half century of colonial rule. Four hundred and sixty postcards from the author's own collection are brought together here to reveal a city that has largely vanished and is barely recognizable even to …
Selama berabad-abad, oligarki diperkuat oleh kekayaan; anggapan ini dikacaukan oleh teori elite pada awal abad kedua puluh. Kesamaan berbagai oligarki sepanjang sejarah adalah bahwa kekayaan mendefinisikan dan memperkuatnya, dan secara inheren membuat oligarki terancam. Motif keberadaan semua oligarki adalah mempertahankan kekayaan itu bermacam-macam, tergantung ancaman apa yang dihadapi, terma…
Dilihat dari dimensi primordial, wilayah administratif Banten tidak identik dengan teritori etnik, karena di dalamnya hidup kelompok-kelompok masyarakat yang secara sadar mengidentikan diri dengan budaya Sunda. Jawa bahkan juga Betawi khususnya di daerah Tangerang. Tetapi dari dimensi instrumental, komunitas-komunitas itu telah menemukan sendiri cara untuk membentuk identitas lebih luas dalam b…
In this classic work that continues to inspire its many readers, James Lovelock deftly explains his idea that life on earth functions as a single organism. Written for the non-scientist, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which to support a new and radically different model of our planet. In contrast to conventional belief that living matter is passive in the f…
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the twentieth century. Marx's ecological critique of capitalism, however, revives in the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism. Inves…
This book presents case studies of citizenship in diverse contexts and angles to reveal how citizens engage in public life. It aims to bring citizens and citizenship to the fore, instead of leaving them in the background of the democratisation studies and real democratisation processes. Democracy is far more than granting individual rights to citizens. Democracy, in this book, is a matter of ci…