A collection of literary essays and criticism by the award-winning author of The Golden Notebook and The Sweetest Dream includes her reviews of classic books, commentaries on world politics, and insights into the role of personal experience in the creation of literature.

A collection of literary essays and criticism by the award-winning author of The Golden Notebook and The Sweetest Dream includes her reviews of classic books, commentaries on world politics, and insights into the role of personal experience in the creation of literature.

Michael Fried's often controversial art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains 27 pieces, including the introduction to the catalogue for "Three American Painters," the text of his book "Morris Louis," and "Art and Objecthood." Originally published between 1962 and 1977, the essays continue to generate debate today. These are u...(展开全部)

Michael Fried's often controversial art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains 27 pieces, including the introduction to the catalogue for "Three American Painters," the text of his book "Morris Louis," and "Art and Objecthood." Originally published between 1962 and 1977, the essays continue to generate debate today. These are u...(展开全部)

Philosophy Bites is a selection of the best interviews from the hugely successful podcast of the same name. Leading philosophers discuss a wide range of philosophical issues, from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics, in a lively, informal, personal way. Time, infinity, evil, friendship, animals, wine, sport, tragedy - all human life is here. Philosophy Bites was set up in 2007 ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 伯纳德•威廉斯（Bernard Williams，1929—2003）20世纪重要的道德哲学家，先后任教于剑桥大学、牛津大学和加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校。他于1970年当选为英国社会科学院院士，1983年当选为美国艺术与科学院荣誉院士，次年当选为英国皇家艺术学会院士，并在1999年因其在哲学上的重大贡献而被授予爵位。主要研究为伦理学、知识论、心灵哲学和政治哲学。威廉斯对功利主义和康德伦理学的批判，以及对道德和道德要求的本质的探究，一度主导了西方伦理理论的思维。主要著作包括《伦理学与哲学的限度》《羞耻与必然性》《道德运气》《功利主义：赞成与反对》《真理与真诚》等。 译者简介： 谢沛宏，维也纳大学哲学在读博士，研究领域为形而上学、元哲学和科学哲学，另有译作《形而上学导论》（Metaphysics，Alyssa Ney著）。 吴芸菲，江苏无锡人，...(展开全部)

作者简介： 伯纳德•威廉斯（Bernard Williams，1929—2003）20世纪重要的道德哲学家，先后任教于剑桥大学、牛津大学和加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校。他于1970年当选为英国社会科学院院士，1983年当选为美国艺术与科学院荣誉院士，次年当选为英国皇家艺术学会院士，并在1999年因其在哲学上的重大贡献而被授予爵位。主要研究为伦理学、知识论、心灵哲学和政治哲学。威廉斯对功利主义和康德伦理学的批判，以及对道德和道德要求的本质的探究，一度主导了西方伦理理论的思维。主要著作包括《伦理学与哲学的限度》《羞耻与必然性》《道德运气》《功利主义：赞成与反对》《真理与真诚》等。 译者简介： 谢沛宏，维也纳大学哲学在读博士，研究领域为形而上学、元哲学和科学哲学，另有译作《形而上学导论》（Metaphysics，Alyssa Ney著）。 吴芸菲，江苏无锡人，...(展开全部)

Architecture is crucial to the success of any large software system -- but even a superb architecture will fail if it isn't communicated well. Now, there's a language- and notation-independent guide to capturing architecture so it can be used successfully by every analyst, software designer, and developer. The authors review the diverse goals and uses of software architecture d...(展开全部)

"This new edition is brighter, shinier, more complete, more pragmatic, more focused than the previous one, and I wouldn't have thought it possible to improve on the original. As the field of software architecture has grown over these past decades, there is much more to be said, much more that we know, and much more that we can reflect upon of what's worked and what hasn't-and t...(展开全部)

Kant scholars have paid relatively little attention to his raciology. They assume that his racism, as personal prejudice, can be disentangled from his core philosophy. They also assume that racism contradicts his moral theory. In this book, philosopher Huaping Lu-Adler challenges both assumptions. She shows how Kant's raciology--divided into racialism and racism--is integral to...(展开全部)