This book re-conceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's Aesthetics and Kant's Critique of Judgment. Force demonstrates that aesthetics, and hence modern philosophy, began twice. On the one hand, Baumgarten's Aesthetics is organized around the new concept of the "subject": as a totality of faculties; an agent defined by ca...(展开全部)

鲍桑葵， 英国哲学家、美学家与伦理学家，新黑格尔主义者。毕业于牛津大学，曾任圣安德鲁斯大学教授 伦敦亚里士多德学会会长。中年时期转入美学和伦理学的研究，相信美学能调和后天与先天、自然与超自然，伦理学能调和享乐与义务、利己主义与利他主义。著有《美学史》、《美学三讲》、《知识与现实》、《个人的价值与命运》、《国家的哲学理论》等。

What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a bridge between approaches, periods, and areas, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty de...(展开全部)

2014 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Reprint of the 3rd Edition. Weyl was a German American mathematician who, through his widely varied contributions in mathematics, served as a link between pure mathematics and theoretical physics, in particular adding enormously to quantum mechanics and the th...(展开全部)

This classic on the general history of functions was written by one of the 20th century's best-known mathematicians. Weyl combined function theory and geometry in this high-level landmark work, forming a new branch of mathematics and the basis of the modern approach to analysis, geometry, and topology. 1955 edition.

This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions betw...(展开全部)

Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.

西蒙娜•德•波伏瓦（Simone de Beauvoir 1908.1.9—1986.4.14)，20世纪法国最有影响的女性之一，存在主义学者、文学家。波伏瓦一生著作甚丰，其中以荣获龚古尔文学奖的长篇小说《名士风流》、被奉为女权主义圣经的理论著作《第二性》和鸿篇巨制的回忆录《波伏瓦回忆录 第一卷：端方淑女》《第二卷：岁月的力量》《第三卷：事物的力量》《第四卷：归根到底》最为突出。20世纪50年代，波伏瓦访问中国，遂有《长征》（1957）问世。此外，其他重要作品有《女宾》《他人之血》《存在主义与民族智慧》等。 陈筱卿，1963年毕业于北京大学西语系法语专业，国际关系学院教授、研究生导师，享有国务院政府特殊津贴，国家人事部考试中心专家组成员。翻译出版法国名家名著多部，达八百多万字，有：拉伯雷的《巨人传》、卢梭的《忏悔录》、雨果的《巴黎圣母院》、大仲马的《...(展开全部)