Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In "On Beauty and Being Just", Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but a...(展开全部)

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic black...(展开全部)

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic black...(展开全部)

作者 | 夏尔·费迪南·拉缪（Charles ferdinand Ramuz,1878—1947） 瑞士著名作家和诗人。一生创作了22部长篇小说、3部短篇小说集以及多部诗集和随笔集。1997年，瑞士国家银行将拉缪的头像及其作品元素作为国家文化象征印在了第八套面额为200瑞士法郎的纸币上。2005年，他的全部小说人选法国伽利玛出版社的“七星文库”丛书，同一年瑞士的斯拉特金出版社也推出了29卷本的《拉缪全集》，他的作品从此进入经典文学的殿堂。2019年，他的《莱芒湖畔的少女》等三部小说人选瑞士《时报》评选的“20世纪以来最优秀的50部法语作品”。 ———————————————————————————— 译者 | 金龙格 法语文学翻译家，桂林旅游学院教授、译审。1987年毕业于复旦大学外文系，曾任职于漓江出版社。2011年、2019年凭借《青春咖啡馆》和...(展开全部)

Hegel on Being provides an authoritative treatment of Hegel’s entire logic of being. Stephen Houlgate presents the Science of Logic as an important and neglected text within Hegel’s oeuvre that should hold a more significant place in the history of philosophy. In the Science of Logic, Hegel set forth a distinctive conception of the most fundamental forms of being through ideas ...(展开全部)

This volume presents a series of essays published by Charles Kahn over a period of forty years, in which he seeks to explicate the ancient Greek concept of Being. He addresses two distinct but intimately related problems, one linguistic and one historical and philosophical. The linguistic problem concerns the theory of the Greek verb einai, 'to be': how to replace the conven...(展开全部)

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by...(展开全部)

In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaña argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaña provides a novel account of empirical evidence according to which said evidence consists of the content of undefeated experiences. Thi...(展开全部)

杰弗里·科特勒（Jeffrey A. Kottler） 美国加利福尼亚州立大学咨询系的教授和系主任。 他在幼师学校、中学、心理健康中心、危机中心、大学、社区大学和私人开业诊所等各种机构中，作为教师、辅导员、治疗师而工作，已有30年治疗经验。 他也是心理和教育领域里最多产的作者之一，已撰写了50本心理治疗领域内题材广泛的著作。他为辅导员和治疗师写了12本教科书，这些书被世界各地的大学所采用。他还为心理治疗师和教育者创作了12本书，其中受到高度关注的著作包括《不完美的治疗师》、《慈悲的治疗》、《超越责备》、《眼泪的语言》、《最后的受害者》、《改变你生活的旅行》、《糟糕的治疗》、《保持长久的改变》和《餐桌旁的木乃伊》。

Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural, natural or social. Building on his classic work The Perception of the Environment, Tim Ingold sets out...(展开全部)