作者简介： 以赛亚·伯林(1909—1997)　英国哲学家和政治思想史家,20世纪最著名的自由主义知识分子之一。出生于俄国里加的一个犹太人家庭,1920年随父母前往英国。1928年进入牛津大学攻读文学和哲学,1932年获选全灵学院研究员,并在新学院任哲学讲师,其间与艾耶尔、奥斯汀等参与了普通语言哲学的运动。二战期间,先后在纽约、华盛顿和莫斯科担任外交职务。1946年重回牛津教授哲学课程,并把研究方向转向思想史。1957年成为牛津大学社会与政治理论教授,并获封爵士。1966年至1975年担任牛津大学沃尔森学院院长。主要著作有《自由四论》（1969，后扩充为《自由论》）、《俄国思想家》(1978)、《反潮流》(1979)、《个人印象》(1980)、《扭曲的人性之材》（1990）、《现实感》(1996)、《浪漫主义的根源》（1999）、《启蒙的三个批评者...(展开全部)

These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published i...(展开全部)

Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient ti...(展开全部)

Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important—Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as "an exhilarating performance—this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can b...(展开全部)

* Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the American Sociological Association In a dazzling new interpretation of four hundred years of modern French history, Charles Tilly focuses not on kings and courtiers but on the common people of village and farm buffeted by the inexorable a...(展开全部)

In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painti...(展开全部)

Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel’s final work. Famously deemed “the brightest man in Europe” by George Santayana, Simmel addressed a variety of topics across his essayistic writings, which have influenced scholars in aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, and sociology. Nevertheless, a set of core issues emerged over the course of his career, most centrally the ge...(展开全部)