Why is it that a text, particularly a canonical text, is often said to contain a meaning different from what it literally says? How did allegorical readings arise and develop? By looking at such examples as Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Song of Songs and traditional Chinese commentaries on the Confucian classic Book of Poetry, Zhang Longxi discusses allegorical re...(展开全部)

Wu Ching-hsiung (1899-1986) , also known as John C. H. Wu, was an author, lawyer, juristic philosopher, educator, and prominent Catholic convert and layman. He was president of the Special High Court at Shanghai, vice chairman of the Legislative Yuan's constitution drafting committee, founder of the T'ien Hsia Monthly, translator of the Psalms and the New Testament into Chinese...(展开全部)

“Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the greatest mind in political philosophy in the twentieth century, and possibly in other centuries as well. That, I am well aware, is a judgment I share with very few, if any.” So writes Harry V. Jaffa in his epilogue to this volume, Crisis of the Strauss Divided, including an extensive unpublished essay entitled “Straussian Geography: A Memoir and...(展开全部)

This volume brings together Martha Nussbaum's published papers, some revised for this collection, on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. It also includes two new essays and a substantial Introduction. The papers, many of them previously not readily available to non-specialist readers, explore such fundamental issues as the relationsh...(展开全部)

This volume brings together Martha Nussbaum's published papers, some revised for this collection, on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. It also includes two new essays and a substantial Introduction. The papers, many of them previously not readily available to non-specialist readers, explore such fundamental issues as the relationsh...(展开全部)

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addre...(展开全部)

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addre...(展开全部)

关于作者 詹姆斯·伍德（James Wood），1965年生，英国批评家、散文家、小说家，曾任《卫报》首席文学批评家、《新共和》资深编辑，现为《纽约客》专栏作家、哈佛大学文学教授，著有《破格》（1999）、《忤逆上帝之书》（2004）、《不负责任的自我》（2004）、《 小说机杼》（2009）、《私货》（2013）、《最接近生活的事物》（2015）。 关于译者 黄远帆，上海外国语大学比较文学和世界文学系文学硕士。译有《小说机杼》、《破格》、《每个爱情故事都是鬼故事：大卫·福斯特·华莱士传》等。