John Berger was born in November 1926 in London. He served in the British Army from 1944 to 1946; he then enrolled in the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art in London. In 1952 Berger began writing for the New Statesman, and quickly became an influential Marxist art critic. He has published a number of art books including the famous Ways of Seeing, which was tur...(展开全部)

Synopsis John Berger relates the story of “G.,” a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the twentieth century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the Don Juan’s success: his essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of h...(展开全部)

Synopsis John Berger relates the story of “G.,” a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the twentieth century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the Don Juan’s success: his essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of h...(展开全部)

In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning tradition is that propositions are representational. To know the meaning of a sentence or the content of a belief requires knowing which things it represents as being which ways, and...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1976, this is the first of two volumes of the selected letters of George Ernest Morrison, The Times correspondent in China in the late Imperial and early Republican period. Few people were in a better position to observe and comment on the events of those years. The first volume of correspondence ends with the revolution and the collapse of the Manchu dy...(展开全部)

作者简介 马克•里拉（Mark Lilla）：芝加哥大学社会思想委员会教授，美国公共领域中具有影响力的知识分子。本书《维柯：反现代的创生》是作者的成名之作，出版之后获得学术界很高的评价，奠定了他在思想史研究领域的声誉。另著有《当知识分子遇到政治》（The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics）、《胎死腹中的神：宗教、政治和现代西方》（The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West）。编有《新法兰西思想：政治哲学》（New French Thought: Political Philosophy）和《以赛亚•伯林的遗产》（The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin）。 作品列表 《维柯：反现代的创生》 《当知识分子遇到政治》 《...(展开全部)

From Library Journal Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) has long been claimed as a putative father of modern theoretical movements both in philosophy and political science. In this analysis of his subject's full corpus, Lilla (politics, NYU) cogently demonstrates that Vico was a "profound critic of the modern age" who used the newly emerging language of science to argue for the asce...(展开全部)