Arguing that apes have created their own distinctive culture, eminent primatologist Frans de Waal challenges our most basic assumptions about who we are and how we differ from other animals. What if apes had their own culture rather than an imposed human version? What if they reacted to situations with behavior learned through observation of their elders (culture) rather tha...(展开全部)

罗伯特·达恩顿(1939年生)，美国普林斯顿大学谢尔比·库罗姆·戴维斯历史讲席教授，是英语世界中最重要的法国史专家之一，也是文化史、阅读史方面的领军人物。《催眠术与法国启蒙运动的终结》是他的第一部著作。代表作有：《拉莫莱特之吻·有关文化史的思考》、《屠猫记·法国文化史钩沉》、《法国大革命时期被禁的畅销书》、《旧制度时期的地下文学》、《启蒙运动的生意》。

罗伯特·达恩顿(1939年生)，美国普林斯顿大学谢尔比·库罗姆·戴维斯历史讲席教授，是英语世界中最重要的法国史专家之一，也是文化史、阅读史方面的领军人物。《催眠术与法国启蒙运动的终结》是他的第一部著作。代表作有：《拉莫莱特之吻·有关文化史的思考》、《屠猫记·法国文化史钩沉》、《法国大革命时期被禁的畅销书》、《旧制度时期的地下文学》、《启蒙运动的生意》。

在另一个向度上，库切把陀思妥耶夫斯基的生活中人和其他作品的人物也邀请到 1869年的彼得堡，让他们和陀思妥耶夫斯基一起在“地下室”、“火”等属于陀思安耶夫斯基话语的场景里，参与到陀思妥耶夫斯基的精神生活中去。小说中，库切多采用现在进行时，并用他（he）来叙述，形成作品中的共时性。情节在共时性的作用下，使人物的自由行动处在一种关键时刻，是陀思妥耶夫斯基，也是库切让自己的主人公承受特殊的精神折磨，以此逼迫主人公把达到极度紧张的自我意识讲出来。正如巴赫金说的，陀思妥耶夫斯基的主人公都是些思想家式的人物：具有伟大而尚未解决的思想的小人物。那么，在《彼得堡的大师》中，库切创造了思想的陀思安耶夫斯基。这样，不仅是陀思安耶夫斯基的作品人物具有开放的、鲜活的他人意识，陀思妥耶夫斯基本人也拥有完全独立的声音，发出价值十足的议论，与作者形成多重的平等的对话关系。如果说陀...(展开全部)

This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relative to the apes, stripped of his veneer as we see him courting, making love, slee...(展开全部)

This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relative to the apes, stripped of his veneer as we see him courting, making love, slee...(展开全部)

Like Michael Cunningham in "The Hours, " Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, "The Master" tells the story of a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.In stu...(展开全部)

Like Michael Cunningham in "The Hours, " Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, "The Master" tells the story of a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.In stu...(展开全部)

The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past ex...(展开全部)