Using key texts by the German architect and theorist Gottfried Semper, Mari Hvattum offers a reinterpretation of historicism, viewed as a philosophical outlook as well as an architectural problem. Hvattum focuses on Semper's two major concerns: an understanding of the ontological significance of art and architecture, and their rendering as objects of scientific investigation an...(展开全部)

Harry Mallgrave`s engrossing book about Gottfried Semper-German architect, scholar, and political revolutionary-is the definitive critical biography of the man who created some of the most impressive buildings in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria. Mallgrave provides a comprehensive account of Semper`s designs, writings, adventurous life, and artistic legacy in this beautif...(展开全部)

This new edition includes a lengthy foreword by Slavoj Zizek, entitled "Why is Wagner worth saving?" Richard Wagner's works are among the most controversial in the history of European music—because of their powerful aesthetic qualities and, in wider political terms, because of their eventual assimilation into the official culture of the Third Reich. This concise syno...(展开全部)

Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high-culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the...(展开全部)

The classical defence of, and arguments for, belief in God have not proved completely satisfactory, particularly in the perspective of modern times, and in the Gifford Lectures for 1983-4, given at the University of St Andrews, Professor Macquarrie puts forward an alternative. He calls his approach 'dialectical theism': dialectical, to indicate that he seeks to avoid the onesid...(展开全部)

什么是人？什么是人性？ 为什么有些人“灭绝人性”，有些人“人格高尚”？ “做人”很难，人生艰辛；无人不犯错，无人不生病，无人无苦楚，无人不死亡——那么，亿万苍生，千百年来，为何还要乐此不疲，努力“做人”？ 所有这些难题，有无数的人做了无数回答；也有无数的人并不在意，或不满意那些回答。 这本书给出的回答，肯定值得你注意，肯定值得你思考；至少，它会让你对这些问题再次产生兴趣，重新进行思考。 作者探索人性难题时的不惧繁难，分析人生处境时的透彻精辟；他对已有种种理论的了然于胸，对各派神学、哲学的取精用宏……使得此书成了我见过的全面、深刻、罪有启发性的探索人性的杰作。 ——何光沪（中国人民大学教授） （麦奎利）那耐心的心智工作，是同他人格的虔诚和谦卑不可分割的，他的榜样，一直都是许多人的灯塔！ ——罗万·威廉斯（Rowan Williams，剑桥大学教授，前坎...(展开全部)

Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high-culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the...(展开全部)

This new edition includes a lengthy foreword by Slavoj Zizek, entitled "Why is Wagner worth saving?" Richard Wagner's works are among the most controversial in the history of European music—because of their powerful aesthetic qualities and, in wider political terms, because of their eventual assimilation into the official culture of the Third Reich. This concise syno...(展开全部)

墨西哥作家豪尔赫·博尔皮（Jorge Volpi）是“爆裂的一代”的发起者和领军人，其作品以独特而新颖的文化视野深刻透视了当代西方社会历史。他的代表作《寻找克林索尔》、《疯狂的终结》和《不再是地球》构成了其20世纪三部曲，在这三部曲中，作者将虚构与真实糅合在一起，使读者徜佯在虚构与真实的迷局中。其作品突显了拉美文学在后爆炸时期的探索和创新。