Now in Paperback "This remarkable set of essays defines the role of imagination in general education, arts education, aesthetics, literature, and the social and multicultural context.... The author argues for schools to be restructured as places where students reach out for meanings and where the previously silenced or unheard may have a voice. She invites readers to develop p...(展开全部)

Now in Paperback "This remarkable set of essays defines the role of imagination in general education, arts education, aesthetics, literature, and the social and multicultural context.... The author argues for schools to be restructured as places where students reach out for meanings and where the previously silenced or unheard may have a voice. She invites readers to develop p...(展开全部)

"In this book, the first collection of his prose works, he accounts in scintillating language for the peculiarly modern and sometimes deliquescent fervor that has prompted his poems. Few poets have written so characteristically about their own craft." --Perspective --U.S.A. "These are rich essays, simply constructed yet richly and elegantly written." -- Hayden Carruth, The Nati...(展开全部)

This volume presents for the first time in English the work of one of the most important French theorists of today. The selection represents the whole of Schefer's career, from the 1960s, when he was influenced by structuralism, to his more lyrical and autobiographical essays of the 1990s, which meditate on the role of the spectator in relation to art practice. Schefer consider...(展开全部)

This volume presents for the first time in English the work of one of the most important French theorists of today. The selection represents the whole of Schefer's career, from the 1960s, when he was influenced by structuralism, to his more lyrical and autobiographical essays of the 1990s, which meditate on the role of the spectator in relation to art practice. Schefer consider...(展开全部)

莱昂内尔·特里林（Lionel Trilling，1905—1975），出生于美国纽约，就读于哥伦比亚大学，于1932年回校任教，在他长期的和非常杰出的职业生涯中作为一个文学评论家，他在校教英语系。他继承阿诺徳、利维斯以来的批评传统，侧重从社会历史、道德心理的角度评论文学和文化，被称为20世纪中期美国年青一代的思想导师，对当代批评影响甚大。在他的许多作品中，最有影响力的三本散文集：《自由想象》，《反对自我》，《超越文化》；讲座集《诚与真》。莱昂内尔·特里林与作家、评论家戴安娜·特里林结婚。

Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, this collection of essays focuses on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the Renaissance.

艾尔弗雷德•诺思•怀特海（Alfred North Whitehead，1861-1947），英国数学家、逻辑学家、哲学家和教育理论家；过程哲学创始人，他创立了20世纪最庞大的形而上学体系。 怀特海与罗素合著的《数学原理》，标志着人类逻辑思维的巨大进步，被称为永久的伟大学术著作之一；罗素起初是他的学生，后来他们成为同事和朋友。 出身于教育世家，他的祖父是当地一位有名望的教育家，曾任当地一所私立学校的校长。他的父亲先后从事教育、宗教工作，十分关心教育事业。受家庭的影响，他对教育很感兴趣。 他早年就读并留校于英国剑桥大学，中年任教职于英国伦敦大学，晚年受聘于美国哈佛大学。《教育的目的》（1929）是他的教育代表作，其深刻的教育思想得到了广泛认同，并影响深远，闪耀着不朽的智慧光芒。

艾尔弗雷德•诺思•怀特海（Alfred North Whitehead，1861-1947），英国数学家、逻辑学家、哲学家和教育理论家；过程哲学创始人，他创立了20世纪最庞大的形而上学体系。 怀特海与罗素合著的《数学原理》，标志着人类逻辑思维的巨大进步，被称为永久的伟大学术著作之一；罗素起初是他的学生，后来他们成为同事和朋友。 出身于教育世家，他的祖父是当地一位有名望的教育家，曾任当地一所私立学校的校长。他的父亲先后从事教育、宗教工作，十分关心教育事业。受家庭的影响，他对教育很感兴趣。 他早年就读并留校于英国剑桥大学，中年任教职于英国伦敦大学，晚年受聘于美国哈佛大学。《教育的目的》（1929）是他的教育代表作，其深刻的教育思想得到了广泛认同，并影响深远，闪耀着不朽的智慧光芒。