"Boys' love," a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, enjoys global popularity and is one of the most rapidl y growing publishing niches in the United States. It is found in manga, anime, novels, movies, electronic games, and fan-created fiction, artwork, and video. This collection of 14 essays addresses boys' love as it has been received and modified...(展开全部)

During the last two decades, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has become a dominant force in cultural activity ranging from taste in music and art to choices in food and lifestyles. The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's major essays on art and literature and provides the first introduction to Bourdieu's writings and theory of a cultural field that situates arti...(展开全部)

During the last two decades, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has become a dominant force in cultural activity ranging from taste in music and art to choices in food and lifestyles. The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's major essays on art and literature and provides the first introduction to Bourdieu's writings and theory of a cultural field that situates arti...(展开全部)

For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most recent "The Importance of Love." Wolf's essays warn us against the common tendency to classify values in terms of...(展开全部)

This book covers Husserl's stance on the philosopher and the history of philosophy, whether or not such a history is part of the philosophical attitude itself, and if so, how Husserl's phenomenology might weigh in on such matters. Firstly, this text spells out some of the manifold ways in which the history of philosophy works its way in Husserl's phenomenology, showing how conc...(展开全部)

This book covers Husserl's stance on the philosopher and the history of philosophy, whether or not such a history is part of the philosophical attitude itself, and if so, how Husserl's phenomenology might weigh in on such matters. Firstly, this text spells out some of the manifold ways in which the history of philosophy works its way in Husserl's phenomenology, showing how conc...(展开全部)

Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? Brian Sutton-Smith, a proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it...(展开全部)

安娜·戴 (Anna Day)，英国作家，现居英国东北部，从事临床心理学研究。她在工作之余经常发表奇幻小说和儿童文学作品。2015年，安娜·戴 入 围 《泰晤士报》儿童小说奖。《绞刑架之舞》（The Fandom）及续篇The Fandom Rising是其代表作。

安娜·戴 (Anna Day)，英国作家，现居英国东北部，从事临床心理学研究。她在工作之余经常发表奇幻小说和儿童文学作品。2015年，安娜·戴 入 围 《泰晤士报》儿童小说奖。《绞刑架之舞》（The Fandom）及续篇The Fandom Rising是其代表作。

恩古吉·瓦·提安哥（1938— ），肯尼亚小说家、剧作家、政论家，生于利穆鲁一农民家庭。一九六四年毕业于乌干达马赫雷雷大学，后入英国利兹大学续修文学。一九六七年回国，在内罗毕大学任教，改英国文学系为非洲文学和语言系。一九七七年因抗议当局对英语的强制性教育而被政府逮捕，获释后与家人过着流亡的生活，直到肯尼亚前总统阿拉普·莫伊下台才终于得以安全回国。 他的作品还包括《孩子，你别哭》《一粒麦种》《血染的花瓣》《十字架上的魔鬼》等。恩古吉现居美国，在纽约大学任教并继续写作。