Following his celebrated book "The Aesthetics of Music", Scruton explores the fundamental elements that constitute a great piece of music.Roger Scruton is one of the most notable British philosophers of the post-war years. Like many, Bernard Williams and Brian Magee among them, he is passionately interested in music. Indeed he has written two operas.This new book applies the theory to the practice and examines a number of composers and musical forms - from Scruton's fascination with Wagner to Boulez and Hoagy Carmichael. The book ends with a devastating chapter on pop music that will be greatly relished by many, while enraging others. The consistent and passionate argument underlying the book is one for tonality and rhythm.

That Sartre's study of Flaubert, "The Family Idiot," is a towering achievement in intellectual history has never been disputed. Yet critics have argued about the precise nature of this novel, or biography, or "criticism-fiction" which is the summation of Sartre's philosophical, social, and literary thought. Sartre writes, simply, in the preface to the book: ""The Family Idiot" is the sequel to "The Question of Method." The subject: what, at this point in time, can we know about a man? It seemed to me that this question could only be answered by studying a specific case."
"A man is never an individual," Sartre writes, "it would be more fitting to call him a universal singular. Summed up and for this reason universalized by his epoch, he in turn resumes it by reproducing himself in it as singularity. Universal by the singular universality of human history, singular by the universalizing singularity of his projects, he requires simultaneous examination from both ends." This is the method by which Sartre examines Flaubert and the society in which he existed.
Now this masterpiece is being made available in an inspired English translation that captures all the variations of Sartre's style--from the jaunty to the ponderous--and all the nuances of even the most difficult ideas. Volume 1 consists of Part One of the original French work, La Constitution, and is primarily concerned with Flaubert's childhood and adolescence.

《文学知识学(余虹文存)》作者余虹在他悼念鲁萌的文章《生命不能承受之痛》中曾经这样写道：“我们都会死去，因此有无数的理由宽慰面对死亡的心灵，但总有一些人的死让你的心无以宽慰，难以承受。”对我，对余虹的许多挚友而言，余虹的死正是这样一种难以承受之痛。在我编辑这个文存的过程中，始终伴随着这样一种铭心刻骨的痛。
痛难以承受，心却并非无以宽慰，因为依然有那么多的人在怀念余虹，在关怀、支持他的文存的编辑和出版。请允许我代表余虹对他们说一声谢谢。

《音乐分析法》内容简介：近二十年来，作品分析渐渐成力音乐理论指导的中心课题，它的地位日显重要。这方面的论著如雨后春笋，令人目不暇接。这些书籍虽然告知你答案，却没有教会你方法。克列门斯·库恩的这《音乐分析法》恰恰填补了这一空白。它并未展示结果，却给你指路，培养你的敏感和能力。《音乐分析法》从各个不同角度出发．为学习者提供音乐作品分析丰富多样的可能性．并用大量作业鼓励学习者用自己的思路和视角作各种分析判断的尝试。《音乐分析法》可说是第一本实用“工作手册”，是专业师生和自学者最理想的教材。