How is it possible that works of art exist? How do we become receptive aesthetic subjects? The Specificity of the Aesthetic extends these fundamental ontological and phenomenological questions around which Georg Lukács’s theory of art was organised. This late work of aesthetics seeks to solve a puzzle that neither philosophy nor socialist politics was able to: the fundamental e...(展开全部)

In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius. 戈达德的著作自1951年问世以来即被奉为莎士比亚研究经典，历来受到莎学专家顶礼膜拜，至今其魅力不减。

In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius. 戈达德的著作自1951年问世以来即被奉为莎士比亚研究经典，历来受到莎学专家顶礼膜拜，至今其魅力不减。

The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in...(展开全部)

A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller's treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy's most profound works. An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary society -- and of the French Revolution, in particular -- to define the relationship between beauty and art.

A spirited & severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in writing including examples from: Blake & Wordsworth to Clint Eastwood. From the Inside Flap This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake ae...(展开全部)

芦原义信（1918—2003）日本当代著名建筑师。毕业于东京大学建筑系、哈佛大学研究生院，历任日本法政大学、武藏野美术大学和东京大学教授，曾担任日本建筑学会主席、日本建筑师协会主席。1956年成立建筑事务所，其设计代表作包括东京驹泽体育馆、索尼大厦、东京国立历史民俗博物馆、东京艺术大剧院等。收入本书的《街道的美学》和《续街道的美学》集中体现了他以“外部空间设计”为中心的建筑美学思想。