Emphasizing "reader expectations," this composition text provides an insightful guide to writing clearly and effectively. Reflecting on the author's decades of experience as an international writing consultant, writer, and instructor, The Sense of Structure teaches writing from the perspective of readers. This text demonstrates that readers have relatively fixed expectations o...(展开全部)

History has been a crucial element in underpinning national identities across the globe for a very long time. Each construction of national identity is incorporating a sense of a long, proud and preferably unbroken history. This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities i...(展开全部)

In part a response to Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form, The Origin of Perspective is much more. In France it is considered one of the most important works of art history to have appeared in the last twenty years. With the exception of Michel Foucault's analysis of Las Meninas, it is perhaps the first time a structuralist method such as the one developed by Claude Levi-St...(展开全部)

In part a response to Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form, The Origin of Perspective is much more. In France it is considered one of the most important works of art history to have appeared in the last twenty years. With the exception of Michel Foucault's analysis of Las Meninas, it is perhaps the first time a structuralist method such as the one developed by Claude Levi-St...(展开全部)

Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century - world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust - grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning? "The Writing of the Disaster" reflects u...(展开全部)

Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century - world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust - grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning? "The Writing of the Disaster" reflects u...(展开全部)

关于作者 莫里斯•布朗肖（Maurice Blanchot），法国著名作家、思想家，1907年生于索恩-卢瓦尔，2003年逝世于巴黎。布朗肖一生行事低调，中年后不接受采访与摄影，但他的作品和思想影响了整个法国当代思想界，对法国许多大知识分子和大作家如乔治‧巴塔耶、列维纳斯、萨特、福柯、罗兰‧巴特、德里达等都影响深远。 关于译者 魏舒 南京大学法语系硕士，曾执教于法国公立大学，现居北京，担任童书策划人及译者，策划并翻译《花园小象波米诺》《书中有座美术馆》等畅销童书。邮箱：[email protected] 吴博， 男，1982年生。法国勒芒大学英语语言文学学士、巴黎四大(索邦)英语文学硕士；曾就读于法国勒芒大学法语强化学习班，获巴黎三大法语对外教育硕士学位及法语深度学习证书（DALF）。现为南京大学法语系博士研究生。译著有《在适当时刻》（莫里斯...(展开全部)

关于作者 莫里斯•布朗肖（Maurice Blanchot），法国著名作家、思想家，1907年生于索恩-卢瓦尔，2003年逝世于巴黎。布朗肖一生行事低调，中年后不接受采访与摄影，但他的作品和思想影响了整个法国当代思想界，对法国许多大知识分子和大作家如乔治‧巴塔耶、列维纳斯、萨特、福柯、罗兰‧巴特、德里达等都影响深远。 关于译者 魏舒 南京大学法语系硕士，曾执教于法国公立大学，现居北京，担任童书策划人及译者，策划并翻译《花园小象波米诺》《书中有座美术馆》等畅销童书。邮箱：[email protected] 吴博， 男，1982年生。法国勒芒大学英语语言文学学士、巴黎四大(索邦)英语文学硕士；曾就读于法国勒芒大学法语强化学习班，获巴黎三大法语对外教育硕士学位及法语深度学习证书（DALF）。现为南京大学法语系博士研究生。译著有《在适当时刻》（莫里斯...(展开全部)

史蒂芬·平克（StevenPinker），世界级语言学家，哈佛大学心理学教授，科普畅销书作家，TED演讲人。被《时代周刊》《外交政策》《展望》等多部知名杂志称为“世界上最有影响力的知识分子”。因在视觉认知和心理语言学方面的杰出研究，平克赢得来自美国国家科学院、英国皇家学会、美国心理学会、美国认知神经科学学会、美国人本主义协会的多个奖项。获过四个荣誉博士学位和数个教学奖项，其撰写的8部大众科普图书也屡屡获奖、部部畅销。

'Strawson offers something which is to be found in very few books on this great philosopher: a discussion which is, on the one side, sy mpathetic, appreciative and well informed, without ever ceasing to be critical and independent on the other.' Philosophical Books ` ... his reconstruction of Kant's central argument was not only exciting in its own day, but remains a paradigm a...(展开全部)