Most philosophy makes little mention of the theater except to denounce it as a place of illusion and moral decay. The theater has tended to respond in kind by steering away from philosophy, driven by the notion that theater consists of actions, not ideas. The Drama of Ideas argues that despite this mutual evasion, the histories of philosophy and theater have in fact been crucia...(展开全部)

In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to his approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. Alexander uses this mod...(展开全部)

In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to his approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. Alexander uses this mod...(展开全部)

In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to Alexander’s approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. He uses this mo...(展开全部)

In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to Alexander’s approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. He uses this mo...(展开全部)

In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to his approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. Alexander uses this mod...(展开全部)

In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to his approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. Alexander uses this mod...(展开全部)

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be l...(展开全部)

作者：阿伦• 瓦兹(1915—1973) 美国神学博士，禅宗信徒，对东方哲学有精深的理解。他的思想受到铃木大拙的影响，同时又不局限于东西方宗教和哲学的某一领域。 生前出版的20多部有关宗教哲学和心理学的著作，在美国几乎每一部都是畅销书，并以多种语言在全球翻译出版，包括《禅之道》《心之道》等。 作为一个狂热的演讲者，瓦兹在20世纪60年代定期出现在广播节目中，并主持了热门的系列电视节目《东方智慧与现代生活》。他在美国的影响力甚至超过了吉杜·克里希那穆提。在1959 年出版的《垮掉禅、方形禅与禅》中，瓦兹为美国“垮掉的一代”的禅修实践命了名。 译者：蒋海怒 佛教禅学研究和译介学人，哲学博士，佛教思想史博士后，美国哥伦比亚大学东亚系2015—2016年访问学人。现任职于浙江理工大学，同时兼任中山大学、华东师范大学等校佛教及思想史研究机构专职研究人员。著译作...(展开全部)

After D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts stands as the godfather of Zen in America. Often taken to task for inspiring the flimsy spontaneity of Beat Zen, Watts had an undeniably keen understanding of his subject. Nowhere is this more evident than in his 1957 classic The Way of Zen, which has been reissued. Watts takes the reader back to the philosophical foundations of Zen in the conceptu...(展开全部)