In this addition to the critically acclaimed Cultural Exegesis series, a nationally recognized scholar and award-winning author offers a sophisticated theological engagement with the nature of languag

切斯瓦夫・米沃什（Czesław Miłosz，1911―2004），波兰诗人、作家、翻译家，1911年出生于波兰第一共和国的立陶宛。1978年获诺斯达特国际文学奖，1980年获诺贝尔文学奖，被誉为“我们时代最伟大的诗人之一”。著作宏富，主要作品有诗集《冬日钟声》《在河岸边》《三个冬天》《白昼之光》《日出日落之处》《无法抵达的土地》，自传体小说《伊萨谷》，回忆录《故土》《米沃什词典》，日记《猎人的一年》，政论《被禁锢的头脑》，文集《站在人这边》《在时间荒原上》，诗论《诗的见证》等。 . 译者简介： 晓风，都柏林圣三一学院英文系硕士，自由译者。译有《作家们》《卡特制造：安吉拉·卡特传》等。

An unprecedented overview of the early work of a preeminent 20th-century artist Diane Arbus (1923 1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study ...(展开全部)

The Bad Beginning begins badly for the three Baudelaire children, and then gets worse. Their misfortunes begin one gray day on Briny Beach when Mr. Poe tells them that their parents perished in a fire that destroyed their whole house. "It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed," laments the personable (occa...(展开全部)

In The Last Word, Thomas Nagel, a leading philosopher and Professor of Law, presents a sustained defense of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals against its many relativistic claims in the fields of language, logic, ethics, and science. He proposes that reason reflects objective principles whose validity is independent of different points ...(展开全部)

If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an...(展开全部)

An extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950s, eventually becoming a meditation on the inheritance of conflict and its consequences. It is a thrillingly original, profound and lyrical work.

In The Last Word, Thomas Nagel, a leading philosopher and Professor of Law, presents a sustained defense of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals against its many relativistic claims in the fields of language, logic, ethics, and science. He proposes that reason reflects objective principles whose validity is independent of different points ...(展开全部)

If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an...(展开全部)