A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

History occasionally produces figures whose influence on their own and successive generations is immense. Marx, Freud and Lenin had such an influence, and so, Alister McGrath argues, does John Calvin. This book provides a fresh and lucid exploration of Calvin's life and influence, his theology and his political thought, and his determining of the course of European history. It ...(展开全部)

Gaye Tuchman，纽约市立大学社会学教授，美国东部社会学协会会长。本书为作者代表作之一，被美国《新闻与大众传播季刊》（Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly)评为20世纪新闻和大众传播研究名著。

The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devo...(展开全部)

Professor Zhiping Liang offers a new understanding of Chinese legal tradition in this profoundly influential book. Unlike the available literature using the usual method of legal history research, this book attempts to illustrate ancient Chinese legal tradition through cultural interpretation. The author holds that both the concept and practice of law are meaningful cultural sy...(展开全部)

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the history and theory of decorative art. The universal human impulse to seek order and rhythm in space and time can be seen in children's play and in poetry, dance, music and architecture, and its prevalence in our every activity calls for an explanation in terms of our biological heritage.

贡布里希教授，恩斯特爵士，功勋团成员（O.M），高级英帝国爵士（C.B.E）。1909年生于维也纳，1936年进入伦敦的瓦尔堡研究院任教职，从1959年起，担任伦敦大学古典传统史教授及院长，直至1976年退休。 主要著作有《艺术的故事》（第16版，1995年），《艺术与错觉》（第6版，2002年），《秩序感》（1979年）。还出版有论文集，“文艺复兴艺术的研究”四卷，第一卷《规范与形式》（1966年）、第二卷《象征的图像》（1972年）、第三卷《阿佩莱斯的遗产》（1976年）、第四卷《老大师新解》（1986年），《木马沉思录》（1963年），《图像与眼睛》（1982年），《敬献集——对我们文化传统的读解》（1984年），《我们时代的话题——20世纪的艺术与学术问题》（1991年），以及《艺术史反思录》（1987年），《偏爱原始性》（2002年）。

The Revolution of the Saints is a study, both historical and sociological, of the radical political response of the Puritans to disorder. It interprets and analyzes Calvinism as the first modern expression of an unremitting determination to transform on the basis of an ideology the existing political and moral order. Michael Walzer examines in detail the circumstances and ideol...(展开全部)

The Revolution of the Saints is a study, both historical and sociological, of the radical political response of the Puritans to disorder. It interprets and analyzes Calvinism as the first modern expression of an unremitting determination to transform on the basis of an ideology the existing political and moral order. Michael Walzer examines in detail the circumstances and ideol...(展开全部)

迈克尔·沃尔泽(1935- )，美国犹太裔政治哲学家，哈佛大学政府学博士，曾先后执教于普林斯顿大学、哈佛大学和普林斯顿高级研究院。沃尔泽先生思想活跃，研究领域广泛，尤其在战争偷、政治义务、社会批评及其限度、分配正义、社群主义等方面贡献尤著。主要著有《正义与非正义的战争》《正义诸领域》《犹太政治传统》《论宽容》《论义务》《弑君与革命》和《阐释与社会批判》等。