"The Essential Tension" is a collection of previously published essays by Thomas Kuhn to which the author has added two hitherto unpublished articles and a splendid, partly autobiographical preface. These assembled studies shed much light on the early evolution and subsequent reformulations of Kuhn's provocative "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (1962; revised edition 1...(展开全部)

This collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Hass, Stephen K...(展开全部)

This collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Hass, Stephen K...(展开全部)

马利安·高利克(Marián Gálik，1933-)，于1958年毕业于布拉格查理大学，是"布拉格汉学学派"的代表人物之一，也是欧美享有盛誉的比较文学学者。 他一直致力于中西文学的比较研究，特别是在中国现代文学的研究领域里取得了重要的成就。他的世界文学观念贯穿了其全部的研究进程，其中《中国现代文学批评发生史》、《中西文学关系的里程碑》和《中国现代思想史研究》等论著得到了国际汉学界的肯定。靠着坚定的信念和不懈的努力，高利克被斯洛伐克科学院授予2003年最高荣誉奖，成为声望显赫的比较文学大家。2005年他荣获国际学术界誉为人文学术诺贝尔奖的"亚历山大-洪堡奖"("亚历山大·冯·洪堡奖")。

迈克尔·莫洛伊（Michael Molloy），美国宗教研究学者，现居夏威夷州的火奴鲁鲁。出生于宗教家庭，先后在圣约翰大学（St. John's University）和夏威夷大学研习犹太教、基督教文学，以及印度教与佛教的神秘主义，取得夏威夷大学博士学位。家庭的熏陶、自身对宗教的浓厚兴趣驱使他游历世界各地，体验不同的宗教和文化的形成过程及其影响，他在此基础上著成本书。 张仕颖，南开大学哲学院副教授，长期从事宗教哲学、宗教学和基督教思想史的教学和科研工作。曾出版专著和译著各一部，在《历史研究》《世界宗教研究》和《宗教学研究》等杂志上发表多篇论文。

Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. The book strongly influenced art students and aesthetes of the day and is still valuable for...(展开全部)

Sima Qian's vast Records of the Historian is the first comprehensive history of China and has exerted an immense influence both upon our understanding of the Chinese past and also upon the style and structure of subsequent Chinese historiography. In addition to his contribution as a historian, Sima Qian is a highly significant literary figure whose writings are among the most e...(展开全部)

Sima Qian's vast Records of the Historian is the first comprehensive history of China and has exerted an immense influence both upon our understanding of the Chinese past and also upon the style and structure of subsequent Chinese historiography. In addition to his contribution as a historian, Sima Qian is a highly significant literary figure whose writings are among the most e...(展开全部)