Many poems in the Chinese tradition come to us embedded in narratives purporting to tell the circumstances of their composition and performance. "Poetic competence" is demonstrated in these narratives through a person’s ability to influence the attitudes and behavior of others with poetic discourse. Such competence can be apprehended only in the context of a narrative, which se...(展开全部)

If the rise of modernism is the story of a struggle between the burden of tradition and a desire to break free of it, then Rilke's poetic development is a key example of this tension at work. Taking a sceptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Judith Ryan reveals how deeply his writing is embedded in the culture of its day. She traces his often desperat...(展开全部)

Judith Ryan traces Rilke's development from aestheticism to modernism, paying special attention to the way his work engages with other poetry and the visual arts. Taking a skeptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Ryan shows how deeply his writing is embedded in the culture of its day. Rilke is now the most widely-read and influential German-language p...(展开全部)

蒋熙德（Volker Scheid)，1958 年出生于 德国。人文学家，西方著名的中医学者。他 大学毕业后就开始研习中医，并在英国开办 了中医针灸诊所，曾先后在美国和中国的数 所大学学习中文和中医理论，并多次到中国 拜访名师。蒋熙德的中医药研究卓有成效， 发表了多篇中医药方面的论文和多部中医药 方面的著作。他是英国剑桥大学博士、伦敦 大学博士后，现任伦敦威斯敏斯特大学结合 医学中心研究员、英国卫生部研究员、亚洲 传统医学国际学会会长等职。

蒋熙德（Volker Scheid)，1958 年出生于 德国。人文学家，西方著名的中医学者。他 大学毕业后就开始研习中医，并在英国开办 了中医针灸诊所，曾先后在美国和中国的数 所大学学习中文和中医理论，并多次到中国 拜访名师。蒋熙德的中医药研究卓有成效， 发表了多篇中医药方面的论文和多部中医药 方面的著作。他是英国剑桥大学博士、伦敦 大学博士后，现任伦敦威斯敏斯特大学结合 医学中心研究员、英国卫生部研究员、亚洲 传统医学国际学会会长等职。

李泽厚，湖南长沙人，北京大学哲学系一九五四年毕业。中国社会科学院研究员、教授。一九八八年当选国巴黎国际哲学院院士，一九九八年获美国科罗拉多学院人文学荣誉博士学位。著有《批判哲学的批判——康德述评》、《我的哲学提纲》、《中国〈古代、近代、现代〉思想史论》、《美学论集》、《美的历程》、《华夏美学》、《美学四讲》、《走我自己的路》、《世纪新梦》、《论语今读》、《已卯五说》等书。

We live in an age of images — the first pictures of Earth from space; nuclear bomb mushroom clouds; Vesalius’s haunting human anatomy pictures — iconic and influential images. John Barrow traces their history and influence to tell the story of modern science.

We live in a visual age-an age of images; iconic, instant, and influential. In this remarkable book, John D. Barrow traces their history in order to tell the story of modern science. Some images, such as Robert Hooke's first microscopic views of the natural world or the stunning images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, were made possible by our new technical capabilities. Ot...(展开全部)