The classical prose essay (ku-wen) of the T'ang and Sung dynasties is one of the major Chinese literary genres, of far greater significance in the Chinese literary tradition than the comparable essay form is in Western literature. This first comprehensive study of Ku-wen in English focuses on its four most important writers: Han Yu and Liu Tsung-yuan of the T'ang, and Ouyang Hs...(展开全部)

Mircea Eliade - one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic - shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled ...(展开全部)

刘易斯·A.科塞（Lewis A.Coser），著名社会学家，1913年生于德国柏林的一个犹太人家庭，1933年流亡巴黎，在那里开始了社会学学术生涯。此后在芝加哥大学任教，并到哥伦比亚大学学习，师从默顿。他的《社会冲突的功能》以及《社会冲突研究续编》使他声明鹊起。主要著作有《理念人》、《一束荆棘花》、《在美国的流亡学者》。

刘易斯·A.科塞（Lewis A.Coser），著名社会学家，1913年生于德国柏林的一个犹太人家庭，1933年流亡巴黎，在那里开始了社会学学术生涯。此后在芝加哥大学任教，并到哥伦比亚大学学习，师从默顿。他的《社会冲突的功能》以及《社会冲突研究续编》使他声明鹊起。主要著作有《理念人》、《一束荆棘花》、《在美国的流亡学者》。

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first time, and their range is characteristically wide: the subjects explored inc...(展开全部)

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first time, and their range is characteristically wide: the subjects explored inc...(展开全部)

"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."--E. H. Gombrich, "New York Review of Books" "This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with powerful convictions about art, images, aesthetics, the art establishment, and especially the discipline of art history. It is animated by an extraordinary erudition."--Arthur C. Da...(展开全部)

China's "Great Leap Forward" of 1958-1961 was a time of official rejoicing over the achievements of Communism, but it was also a time of immense suffering. Growing dissent among intellectuals stimulated creativity as writers sought to express both their hope for the success of the revolution and their dissatisfaction with the Party leadership and policies. But the uneasy politi...(展开全部)

China's "Great Leap Forward" of 1958-1961 was a time of official rejoicing over the achievements of Communism, but it was also a time of immense suffering. Growing dissent among intellectuals stimulated creativity as writers sought to express both their hope for the success of the revolution and their dissatisfaction with the Party leadership and policies. But the uneasy politi...(展开全部)