Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption - in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning...(展开全部)

杰拉德·普林斯（Gerald Prince），美国宾夕法尼亚大学罗曼语系终身教授，国际知名的叙事理论家、法语文学学者。他从20世纪60年代起就从事叙事学研究，堪称该学科从结构主义时代到后经典叙事学时代这一全部历程的见证者与参与者，至今活跃于国际学界。先后以法语、英语出版若干种叙事学与小说研究著作，主要有《萨特小说中的形而上学与技巧》《故事的语法》《叙事学：叙事的形式与功能》《叙述学词典》《作为主题的叙事：法语小说研究》《法语小说指南（1901-1950）》等，还有多篇重要论文。他曾分别为约翰·霍普金斯大学出版社和内布拉斯加大学出版社合作编辑了“Parallax”与“Stages”两套丛书。他还是《叙事》《文体》《变音》《法语论坛》等十数家知名学术期刊的编委或顾问。2011年10月，普林斯教授应邀来华，作为特邀专家出席了在长沙举行的第三届叙事学国际会议...(展开全部)

"Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse" develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in t...(展开全部)

"Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse" develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in t...(展开全部)

Lois Lane knows that Superman can fly, but she does not know that Clark Kent can fly. How can that be, given that Superman and Clark are one and the same? To answer this question, Frege famously distinguished the reference of a name (the thing it is a name of) from what he called its 'sense' or 'mode of presentation'. The sense was meant to capture our (necessarily limited) per...(展开全部)

Lois Lane knows that Superman can fly, but she does not know that Clark Kent can fly. How can that be, given that Superman and Clark are one and the same? To answer this question, Frege famously distinguished the reference of a name (the thing it is a name of) from what he called its 'sense' or 'mode of presentation'. The sense was meant to capture our (necessarily limited) per...(展开全部)

What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit—the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today—offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline. Based on a new reading of the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz, Ankersmit constructs a rigoro...(展开全部)

What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit—the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today—offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline. Based on a new reading of the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz, Ankersmit constructs a rigoro...(展开全部)

这本书是对西方传统史学的颠覆性作品之一。作者系统提出了语言结构及其限制对历史学的影响，以及后现代思潮对此的理解与批评。在此基础上，作者与1995年完成了另一力作《历史的新哲学》（与人合著）。今天重新审视西方史学传统时，这是一把带刃的钥匙。

Belief in propositions has had a long and distinguished history in analytic philosophy. Three of the founding fathers of analytic philosophy, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore, believed in propositions. Many philosophers since then have shared this belief; and the belief is widely, though certainly not universally, accepted among philosophers today. Among contemp...(展开全部)