On Time and Being charts the so-called "turn" in Martin Heidegger's philosophy away from his earlier metaphysics in Being and Time to his later thoughts after "the end of philosophy." The title lecture, "Time and Being," shows how Heidegger reconceived both "Being" and "time," introducing the new concept of "the event of Appropriation" to help give his metaphysical ideas nonmet...(展开全部)

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)

伊莱恩·斯凯瑞，曾是美国哈佛大学英文系美学教授，出版了多部著作，包括《苦痛的身体》（The Body in Pain，1985）、《借书做梦》（Dreaming by the Book，1999）及一系列关于战争与社会合约的论文。 卓慧臻，美国明尼苏达大学英国文学学士，英国埃塞克斯大学女性文学硕士，英国伦敦大学亚非学院比较文学博士。2002—2006年任中国社会科学院研究生院比较文学与世界文学专业副教授。2006年至今任清华大学外国语言文学系副教授，讲授“西方戏剧精讲与表演”“英语小说”等课程。出版专著《从〈传说〉到〈巫言〉：朱天文的小说世界与台湾文化》（2009）和《重写神话：西方女作家的小说奇想》（2011）。另有多篇评论和散文：《跨越电影类型的鸿沟》（《芳草萋萋》，2012）；《中西女性战争书写：从伍尔夫与张爱玲谈起》（《中国女性文化》，第十九...(展开全部)

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)

In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated by psychoanalysis--kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, composure, even farting as it relates to worrying. He argues that psychoanalysis began as a virtuoso improvisation within the science of medicine, but that virtuosity has given way to the dream of sci...(展开全部)

How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on linguistic resources? Here, in six remarkable essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth questions of reality, perception, and experience. Basing his ideas on common sense, Eco shares a vast wealth of literary and historical knowledge, touch...(展开全部)

In this in-depth text, the preeminent art education scholar Arthur Efland not only sheds light on the problems inhibiting art education, but also demonstrates how art contributes to the overall development of the mind. Delineating how the development of artistic interests and ability are important aspects of cognition and learning, he shows how art helps individuals construct c...(展开全部)

In this in-depth text, the preeminent art education scholar Arthur Efland not only sheds light on the problems inhibiting art education, but also demonstrates how art contributes to the overall development of the mind. Delineating how the development of artistic interests and ability are important aspects of cognition and learning, he shows how art helps individuals construct c...(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)