Ray Jackendoff's Language, Consciousness, Culture represents a breakthrough in developing an integrated theory of human cognition. It will be of interest to a broad spectrum of cognitive scientists, including linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists.Jackendoff argues that linguistics has become isolated...(展开全部)

德国语言学家、哲学家、政治家。1767年生于波茨坦。1787—1789年就读于法兰克福大学和格廷根大学，1801—1810年任普鲁士宗教和教育大臣，致力于教育事业的改革。1809年创建柏林大学，即现在的洪堡大学.1810—1819年任外交官。1819年以后辞去公职，专门 从事学术研究。 在德国近代史学者的笔下，他是一个具有人文主义精神的民主政治家，能干老练的外交家，学者型的社会活动家。他又是一个追求完美人性的教育改革家，科研与教学相统一的新型大学的创建人，因此常为西方教育史家提到。他有时出现在西方美学史、文艺理论的著作中，被描绘为席勒(Friedrich Schiller)和歌德（Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)思想的继承者，德国古典主义的最后一个代表。人类学家也经常提到他，因为他继赫尔德(Johann Gottfried He...(展开全部)

德国语言学家、哲学家、政治家。1767年生于波茨坦。1787—1789年就读于法兰克福大学和格廷根大学，1801—1810年任普鲁士宗教和教育大臣，致力于教育事业的改革。1809年创建柏林大学，即现在的洪堡大学.1810—1819年任外交官。1819年以后辞去公职，专门 从事学术研究。 在德国近代史学者的笔下，他是一个具有人文主义精神的民主政治家，能干老练的外交家，学者型的社会活动家。他又是一个追求完美人性的教育改革家，科研与教学相统一的新型大学的创建人，因此常为西方教育史家提到。他有时出现在西方美学史、文艺理论的著作中，被描绘为席勒(Friedrich Schiller)和歌德（Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)思想的继承者，德国古典主义的最后一个代表。人类学家也经常提到他，因为他继赫尔德(Johann Gottfried He...(展开全部)

Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts focus on the earliest generation of text-based adventures ("Zork, " for exam...(展开全部)

Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts focus on the earliest generation of text-based adventures ("Zork, " for exam...(展开全部)

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture ...(展开全部)

This title explores the emerging field of material culture and demonstrates that the study of artifacts can disclose important facts about past cultures. Eighteen essays describe how to "read" artifacts, how to "listen" to landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.

This title explores the emerging field of material culture and demonstrates that the study of artifacts can disclose important facts about past cultures. Eighteen essays describe how to "read" artifacts, how to "listen" to landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addre...(展开全部)

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addre...(展开全部)