One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challe...(展开全部)

[英] 特里•伊格尔顿（Terry Eagleton） 英国学者、批评家，国际文学理论界的领军人物、著名公共知识分子。在学术界，伊格尔顿是一位极富创造力和批判性的左派理论家，他最驰名的作品《文学理论导论》，是全球范围内的文学入门必读经典。目前，他是英国兰开斯特大学英语文学的特聘教授。 几十年来，他的作品是一代人文读者的乐趣和灵感之源。由于文才广博、作品丰富，有人说伊格尔顿生涯中“写了三辈子的作品”。他凭借《文学理论导论》《人生的意义》《文学阅读指南》几本极具感染力的通俗读物，成为全球人文学生乃至广大年轻读者的导师。其更为严肃的理论著作，如《马克思为什么是对的》《理论之后》《后现代主义的幻象》《审美意识形态》等，在文学和文化研究界也具有相当的影响力。

Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book, he explores how culture and our conceptualizations of it have e...(展开全部)

Seinfeld as a contemporary adaptation of Etherege's Restoration comedy of manners The Man of Mode? Friends as a reworking of Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing? Star Wars as an adaptation of Spenser's epic poem, The Faerie Queene? The popular culture that surrounds us in our daily lives bears a striking similarity to some of the great works of literature of...(展开全部)

Gideon Kunda is Associate Professor, Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University.

"Engineering Culture" is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book-which has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Hebrew-has been revised to bring it up to date. In "Engineering Culture", Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated 'corp...(展开全部)

Social scientists seek to develop systematic ways to understand how people make meaning and how the meanings they make shape them and the world in which they live. But how do we measure such processes? Measuring Culture is an essential point of entry for both those new to the field and those who are deeply immersed in the measurement of meaning. Written collectively by a team o...(展开全部)

爱德华・泰勒（Edward Tylor，1832-1917），英国人类学家，被人类学界尊称为“人类学之父”，“在人类学中是第一个伟大的名字”，是最具影响的进化派和人类学派的经典作家。代表作有《原始文化》、《人类学――人及其文化研究》等。

Social scientists seek to develop systematic ways to understand how people make meaning and how the meanings they make shape them and the world in which they live. But how do we measure such processes? Measuring Culture is an essential point of entry for both those new to the field and those who are deeply immersed in the measurement of meaning. Written collectively by a team o...(展开全部)