Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and - more than any other subject - music. To this day, Adorno remains the single most influential contributor to the development of qualitative musical sociology which, together with his nuanced intertextual readings...(展开全部)

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and - more than any other subject - music. To this day, Adorno remains the single most influential contributor to the development of qualitative musical sociology which, together with his nuanced intertextual readings...(展开全部)

A.S.拜厄特（1936— ），英国小说家、诗人和文学批评家，英国皇家文学协会会员。代表作包括小说《占有》、《天使与昆虫》、《花园中的处女》等长篇小说，以及《糖和其他故事》、《夜莺眼中的巨灵》等短篇小说集。曾凭借《占有》获得1990年布克奖，并于2008年被《泰晤士报》评为“1945年来英国最伟大的五十名作家”之一。

In recent years many novelists have become increasingly interested in history as fiction and fiction as history. In her powerful opening essays – “Fathers,” “Forefathers” and “Ancestors” – A.S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel. She focuses on novels of wartime experience, the surprising variety of the distant pasts British writers have invented, and the n...(展开全部)

In recent years many novelists have become increasingly interested in history as fiction and fiction as history. In her powerful opening essays – “Fathers,” “Forefathers” and “Ancestors” – A.S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel. She focuses on novels of wartime experience, the surprising variety of the distant pasts British writers have invented, and the n...(展开全部)

This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary which helps readers engage the texts critically and to use them to develop their own views. Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, to think of...(展开全部)

Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid d...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A generous and varied selection–the only hardcover edition available–of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Although best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four , George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dea...(展开全部)

亚里士多德（前384—前322），古希腊最伟大的哲学家、科学家和教育家之一，堪称希腊哲学的集大成者。

Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings—including several previously unpublished—by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. They display Hale's innovative approach to some of the most fundamental issues in p...(展开全部)