Shils, Edwar，美国著名社会学家、教育家、功能主义学派的领袖人物之一，亦是研究Max Weber的专家。现任芝加哥大学教授。 希尔斯本人的政治立场是保守主义的，他用毕生的精力来捍卫传统的研究型大学,认为传统的研究型大学在现代社会中发挥着重要的功能。其作品着重探讨学术自由与外部权威之间的矛盾关系，及学者的政治自由问题，为学术自由的研究开辟了新的视野。 著有：《知识份子与当权者》（The Intellectuals and the Powers and Other Essays.1972 ）、《论传统》（On Tradition.1981）等。

In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations--on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general. The Dyer's Hand is a surprisingly personal, intimate view ...(展开全部)

"Among the most provocative and compelling feminist political visions since The Second Sex. Wittig's theoretical insights are both precise and far-reaching, and her theoretical style is bold, incisive, even shattering." --Judith Butler, author of Gender Trouble Beacon Press Web Site, Aug., 2001 These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of the...(展开全部)

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between di...(展开全部)

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction. For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the t...(展开全部)

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humor? What is John Updike+s deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News+ Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious nonfiction.For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the thre...(展开全部)

James Wood's The Fun Stuff confirms his preeminence not only as a discerning literary judge but as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passionate dispatcheswhich range over such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, Edmund Wilson, and Mikhail LermontovWood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel. He effortlessly connects his encyclopedic unders...(展开全部)

In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations--on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general. The Dyer's Hand is a surprisingly personal, intimate vie...(展开全部)

In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations--on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general. The Dyer's Hand is a surprisingly personal, intimate vie...(展开全部)