本书围绕王建疆关于人文学科需要独创的主义的观点和他本人创立别现代主义理论的实践，在国际哲学界和艺术理论界展开对话。记录了别现代主义的国际背景和来龙去脉以及各种新理论的产生过程，展现了国际学术论辩所带来的话语创新。

王建疆，上海师范大学人文与传播学院教授，博士生导师，美学与美育研究所所长，中华美学学会理事、中国文艺理论学会理事。曾任甘肃省美学研究会会长（2005—2012）。在美学、哲学、敦煌文化研究方面出书10本，《澹然无极》一书在中国和德国出版。其别现代理论在欧美的哲学家和艺术家中产生了影响。2017年美国教授们在佐治亚州西南州立大学（阿梅里克斯）成立了中国别现代研究中心（CCBMS）。 WANG Jianjiang, the professor and doctoral supervisor in College of Humanities and Communication, Head of Aesthetics & Aesthetic Education Institute in Shanghai Normal University, the President of Gansu Province Association for Aesthetics in China(2005—2012). He is the author of 10 books on aesthetics, philosophy, Dun-Huang cultural studies. Unlimited- the Aesthetic Generation of Laozi and Zhuangzi's Realm of Life was published in China and Germany. His Bie-modern theory has affected European philosopher and American artist, art historian.The Center for Chinese Bie-modern Studies(CCBMS) has been set up by American professors since 2017 in Georgia South West State University, Georgia, Americus. 阿列西 •艾尔雅维茨，斯洛文尼亚科学与人文研究院科学研究中心哲学研究所研究教授。曾以斯洛文尼亚文、塞尔维亚文、英文和中文出版了15本美学、哲学、文化研究、视觉研究、当代艺术史、前卫艺术等方面的专著和文集。新著作是《美学革命与二十世纪的前卫运动》。同时任教于卢布尔雅那和上海。曾任斯洛文尼亚美学学会主席（1983—1998，2001—2005）和国际美学协会主席（1998—2001）。 Aleš Erjavec, the research professor in the Institute of Philosophy in the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author or editor of 15 books on aesthetics, philosophy, cultural studies, visual studies, contemporary art history, the avant-gardes, etc. which were published in Slovenian, Serbian, English and Chinese. His most recent book is Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements (ed., Durham 2015, Belgrade 2016, Shanghai 2017). He teaches in Ljubljana and Shanghai. He was President of the Slovenian Society for Aesthetics (1983—1998, 2001—2005) and President of the International Association for Aesthetics (1998—2001).