Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpo...(展开全部)

This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750, came to differ from "Classical civilization." These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the P...(展开全部)

This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c.150 and c.750 A.D., came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deep-rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the ...(展开全部)

J. B. 伯里（John Bagnell Bury，1861—1927），英国著名历史学家、古典学家和文献学家。学问渊博，著述等身，曾计划并参与《剑桥古代史》《剑桥中世纪史》《剑桥近代史》等书之编辑。1902年获任剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授。研究涉足古希腊史、古罗马史、19世纪教皇史、西方思想史等多个领域的研究，尤以晚期罗马帝国史和拜占庭史见长。其著作的范围从古代希腊史一直到19世纪的教会史。其代表作有《晚期罗马帝国：从阿卡狄乌斯到爱里尼》（A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene，1889年）、《希腊史：至亚历山大大帝去世》（A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great，1900年）、《东罗马帝国史：从爱...(展开全部)

J. B. 伯里（John Bagnell Bury，1861—1927），英国著名历史学家、古典学家和文献学家。学问渊博，著述等身，曾计划并参与《剑桥古代史》《剑桥中世纪史》《剑桥近代史》等书之编辑。1902年获任剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授。研究涉足古希腊史、古罗马史、19世纪教皇史、西方思想史等多个领域的研究，尤以晚期罗马帝国史和拜占庭史见长。其著作的范围从古代希腊史一直到19世纪的教会史。其代表作有《晚期罗马帝国：从阿卡狄乌斯到爱里尼》（A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene，1889年）、《希腊史：至亚历山大大帝去世》（A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great，1900年）、《东罗马帝国史：从爱...(展开全部)

First published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experience initiated the psychological study of religion, paving the way for Freud and Jung as well as for clinical and paranormal branches of psychology. Written with humour and erudition, its theories of conversion, saintliness, ecstasy and mysticism continue to provoke controversy and enquiry. The book remains the best intr...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

“Anyone whose life needs a course correction would be fortunate to be guided by The Wisdom of Insecurity . My life still is, some thirty years later." —Deepak Chopra, from the Introduction Alan W. Watts’s “message for an age of anxiety” is as powerful today as it waswhen this modern classic was first published. We spend too much time trying to anticipate and plan for the fut...(展开全部)