《再造国家》全书理论阐发和细节描绘并重。作者化用海德格尔、福柯和德里达等人的学说，从军队重组、乡村建设、城市规划和学校教育等殖民工程入手，细致呈现了殖民权力渗透埃及社会的内在过程和逻辑，又通过对阿拉伯语读写特点的分析，揭示出语言、意义、权力和秩序的复杂纠葛。

　　因作者创造性的视角，本书自出版以来，已有数个语种的译本问世，在人类学、历史学、法学、哲学、文化研究和艺术史等不同领域都有一定影响。

　　作者简介

　　蒂莫西•米切尔（TimothyMitchell，1955—），在英国出生，相继在英、美接受教育，普林斯顿大学政治学和近东研究博士，现为哥伦比亚大学中东、南亚和非洲研究系威廉•B.兰斯福德教授，是一位有着广泛影响的政治理论家和历史学家。研究领域包括殖民主义在现代性形成中的地位，中东的物质和技术政治，以及经济学和其他形式的专业知识在集体生活管理中的作用。出版著作数种，被译为阿拉伯语、波斯语、希伯来语和土耳其语等多国语言出版，在中近东研究领域有着开创性贡献。

Reinventing the State pays equal attention to both theoretical analysis and detailed description. Based on the theories of Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida, the author presents in detail the internal process and logic of the infiltration of colonial power into Egyptian society, starting from the colonial projects such as army reorganization, rural construction, urban planning and school education, and reveals the complex entanglements of language, meaning, power and order through the analysis of the characteristics of Arabic reading and writing.

Because of the author's creative perspective, the book has been translated into several languages since its publication, and has had an impact in fields as diverse as anthropology, history, law, philosophy, cultural studies, and art history.

About the author

TimothyMitchell (1955 -), born in England and educated in the United Kingdom and the United States, received a PhD in Political Science and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and is now William B. Mitchell in the Department of Middle East, South Asia and African Studies at Columbia University. Professor Lansford is a widely influential political theorist and historian. Areas of study include the place of colonialism in the formation of modernity, the physical and technological politics of the Middle East, and the role of economics and other forms of expertise in the management of collective life. He has published several books, translated into Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Turkish, and has made pioneering contributions to Middle East studies.