阿诺德·伯林特，美国长岛大学教授，曾任国际美学学会主席、国际美学学会秘书长、美国美学学会秘书长，现任国际应用美学学会国际咨询委员会主席。阿诺德·伯林特教授研究领域广泛，主要著作有：《美学再思考》(2005)；《生活在景观中——走向一种环境美学》(1997)《环境美学》(1992)；《艺术与参与》(1991)；《审美经验的现象学》(1970)。其著作被译成法文、俄文、芬兰文、波兰文、希腊文、中文、韩文等多种文字。

Chinese history, institutions, and thought from 500 BC to 1949, with particular emphasis on sociology and economic history of ancient China.

彼得·伯格（Peter Berger） 国际知名的社会学家、宗教学家，现象社会学主要代表人物，新保守主义的代言人之一。美国波士顿大学文化、宗教和世界事务研究所前主任，曾先后任教于纽约社会研究学院、北卡罗来纳大学等多所大学。伯格学术兴趣广泛，思路开阔，著作颇丰，在宗教、世俗化、多元性、“全球化的多样性”等方面均有论著，内容涉及社会学、宗教学、神学、经济学和政治学等诸多领域，在西方人文社科界引起了持久的关注和影响。与德国社会学家托马斯·卢克曼合著的《现实的社会构建》，被认为是知识社会学领域的里程碑式著作；所撰《神圣的帷幕：宗教社会学的基本理论要素》被奉为堪与韦伯《新教伦理与资本主义精神》相媲美的经典；代表作另有《知识社会学：社会实体的建构》《与社会学同游：人文主义视角》《疑之颂：如何信而不狂》等。 格雷斯·戴维（Grace Davie） 英国著名宗教社...(展开全部)

Europe is a relatively secular part of the world in global terms. Why is this so? And why is the situation in Europe so different from that in the United States? These are the key questions considered in this book; key questions (the theme) clearly articulated in the first chapter.Subsequent chapters explore the nature of Eurosecularity in more detail (the variations on the the...(展开全部)

New and distinctive approaches to five central topics in musical aesthetics are provided in this outstanding book. The topics are: understanding, representation, expression, performance and profundity. The theme of the book is the failure of the orthodox view - that pieces of music are more or less self-contained structures of sound - to account for some important features of o...(展开全部)

New and distinctive approaches to five central topics in musical aesthetics are provided in this outstanding book. The topics are: understanding, representation, expression, performance and profundity. The theme of the book is the failure of the orthodox view - that pieces of music are more or less self-contained structures of sound - to account for some important features of o...(展开全部)

America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space--is emerging both at the heart and at the edge of town in megamalls, corporate enclaves, gentrified zones, and psuedo-historic marketplaces. If anything can be described as a paradigm for these places, it's ...(展开全部)

何塞·奥尔特加-加塞特于1883年诞生在西班牙马德里，他是近代西班牙最伟大的思想家，也是西班牙共和国的知识领导者之一。

何塞·奥尔特加-加塞特于1883年诞生在西班牙马德里，他是近代西班牙最伟大的思想家，也是西班牙共和国的知识领导者之一。

Expanding on Siegfried Zielinski’s groundbreaking inquiry into “deep time” of the media, the essays in Variations on Media Thinking further the eminent media theorist’s unique method of expanded hermeneutics, which means for him interpreting technical artifacts as essential parts of our cultural lives. Covering such topics as the televisualized “Holocaust,” the ubiquity of medi...(展开全部)