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.

Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history.
Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.

《印度古典美学》系教育部“九五”规划社会科学研究基金项目“印度美学研究”的最终成果，是国内第一部运用跨学科、多视角的研究方法全面论述印度古典美学与艺术的学术著作。本书立足于印度广阔的文化背景来展开印度美学特点的论述，揭示了印度哲学思想、宗教、文学与美学和艺术理论的内在联系，阐明了印度思想对印度民族审美观念和艺术创造的影响。本书注重史论结合，既突显了印度美学思想发展的基本轨迹，分析了印度美学思想在不同历史日寸期的特征及变化的状况，又具体展示了戏剧、建筑、雕刻、绘画、音乐、舞蹈等印度艺术的美学魅力。

Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields.
The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy.
This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures.

《新科学(套装共2册)》其实是一幅伟大的幻景；前后文互相参照的线索所连接的其实是这幅幻景的各个组成部分，至于这部著作本身的各个部分，它们仅仅是作为次要成分被这条线索非常不完整地勉强连缀在一起；这幅幻景虽然在这里或那里和历史事实有松散的联系，其余的部分却都脱离了历史事实而飘浮在半空中，如果不说是完全与历史事实相违背的话；然而，纵使如此，就这幅幻景的整体格局而言，它却是符合于历史真实图景的。