Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outl...(展开全部)

Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outl...(展开全部)

威廉·詹姆斯（William James，1842—1910）美国本土第一位哲学家和心理学家，也是教育学家，实用主义的倡导者，美国机能主义心理学派创始人之一，也是美国最早的实验心理学家之一。1875年，建立美国第一个心理学实验室。1904年当选为美国心理学会主席，1906年当选为国家科学院院士。2006年，詹姆斯被美国的权威期刊《大西洋月刊》评为影响美国的100位人物之一（第62位）。

威廉·詹姆斯（William James，1842—1910）美国本土第一位哲学家和心理学家，也是教育学家，实用主义的倡导者，美国机能主义心理学派创始人之一，也是美国最早的实验心理学家之一。1875年，建立美国第一个心理学实验室。1904年当选为美国心理学会主席，1906年当选为国家科学院院士。2006年，詹姆斯被美国的权威期刊《大西洋月刊》评为影响美国的100位人物之一（第62位）。

Fables of Modernity expands the territory for cultural and literary criticism by introducing the concept of the cultural fable. Laura Brown shows how cultural fables arise from material practices in eighteenth-century England. These fables, the author says, reveal the eighteenth-century origins of modernity and its connection with two related paradigms of difference—the woman a...(展开全部)

Fables of Modernity expands the territory for cultural and literary criticism by introducing the concept of the cultural fable. Laura Brown shows how cultural fables arise from material practices in eighteenth-century England. These fables, the author says, reveal the eighteenth-century origins of modernity and its connection with two related paradigms of difference—the woman a...(展开全部)

This classic by a noted art historian focuses on French cathedrals of the 13th century as the apotheosis of the medieval style. Topics include iconography, bestiaries, illustrated calendars, the gospels, secular history, and many other aspects. "The most illuminating, the most informing, and the most penetrating book on the subject." — Bernard Berenson. 190 black-and-white illu...(展开全部)

This classic by a noted art historian focuses on French cathedrals of the 13th century as the apotheosis of the medieval style. Topics include iconography, bestiaries, illustrated calendars, the gospels, secular history, and many other aspects. "The most illuminating, the most informing, and the most penetrating book on the subject." — Bernard Berenson. 190 black-and-white illu...(展开全部)

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of ar...(展开全部)