本书在地理尺度上横跨美、亚、非三洲，并顾及澳大利亚、太平洋岛群；在时间刻度上，自17世纪以降，横跨350年；在资料取用上，参照最新的研究成果和第一手资料，能够回应过去研究者局限于特定区域或是特定疾病的不足。从全球史的视角，详尽分析了17世纪到20世纪中叶现代医学的诞生过程。

Description
In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; second, that this change in the structure of musical time was an aspect of a larger transformation in the way educated Europeans began to imagine and think about time with the onset of modernity, a part of a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview. Until this historical moment, as Berger illustrates in his analysis of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, music was simply "in time." Its successive events unfolded one after another, but the distinction between past and future, earlier and later, was not central to the way the music was experienced and understood. But after the shift, as he finds in looking at Mozart's Don Giovanni, the experience of linear time is transformed into music's essential subject matter; the cycle of time unbends and becomes an arrow. Berger complements these musical case studies with a rich survey of the philosophical, theological, and literary trends influencing artists during this period.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
PRELUDE. L'Orfeo, or the Anxiety of the Moderns
PART I. BACH'S CYCLE
1. The Arrested Procession
Appendix: St. Matthew Passion, opening chorus, full score
2. A Crystal Flying Like a Bullet
3. There Is No Time Like God's Time
INTERLUDE. Jean-Jacques contra Augustinum: A Little Treatise on Moral-Political Theology
Augustine
The Birth of Autonomy
Rousseau
The Christian and Modern Outlooks Compared
The Emancipation of Time
From Cosmos to History
PART II. MOZART'S ARROW
4. Mozart at Play
5. The Hidden Center
6. Between Incoherence and Inauthenticity: Don Giovanni and Faust
7. Die Zauberflöte, or the Self-Assertion of the Moderns
POSTLUDE. Between Utopia and Melancholy: Beethoven and the Aesthetic State
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About The Author
Awards
Marjorie Weston Emerson Award, The Mozart Society of America

Religion in Modern Taiwan takes a new look at Taiwan's current religious traditions and their fortunes during the 20th century. Beginning with the cession of Taiwan to Japan in 1895 and the currents of modernisation that accompanied it, the essays move on to explore the developments that have taken place as Buddhists, Daoists, Christians, non-Han aborigines, and others have confronted, resisted, and adapted to (even thrived in) the many upheavals of the modern period. An overview of Taiwan's current religious scene is followed by Charles Jones' comprehensive look at the state of religion in the country prior to the end of World War II and the return of Taiwan to Chinese sovereignty. The remaining essays probe aspects of change within individual religious traditions. The final chapter analyses changes that took place in the scholarly study and interpretation of religion in Taiwan during the course of the 20th century. Religion in Modern Taiwan will be read with interest by students and scholars of Chinese religion, religion in Taiwan, and the modern history of Taiwan and by those concerned with issues of religion and modernisation. Philip Clart is assistant professor of East Asian religions in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia. (ISBN:0824825640) (For this item please quote stock ID 21154)

This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity. It provides an important corrective to the view of science as an autonomous enterprise and presents a new account of the history of interpretations of the significance of the heavens for man.Hans Blumenberg is Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at the University of Munster in West Germany. This book is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy

本書的研究主體涵蓋臺灣、中國大陸、韓國、日本等東亞地區的知識人對「近代性」的思考，打破了以臺灣或中國大陸為觀察視野的單一面向之思維模式，內容涵蓋以下幾項課題：
(一)、日本與韓國面對「近代性」的不同背景圖像；(二)、從共同文本的不同翻譯看東亞對「近代性」的反應；(三)、漢學、蘭學與日本近代化之關聯性；(四)、從韓國看近代日本國家主義的形成；(五)、中日近代知識人對歷史觀念的變化；(六)、以「西」釋「中」的歷史脈絡與「近代性」的關聯；(七)、近代中日知識人對美國文明認知的異同。以上研究主題以「空間移動」的探討為經，以東亞區域性時勢潮流的思想交流為緯的研究架構，將人物互動所延伸的文化、思想交流等各種「近代性」層面的問題納入探討的視角。

Acclaimed historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries, real and theoretical, that compartmentalize the world around us. In one of the first works to explore on equal footing European and Japanese conceptions of modernity -- as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, as well as ethnologist Yanagita Kunio and Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun -- Harootunian seeks to expose the problematic nature of scholarly categories. In doing so, History's Disquiet presents intellectual genealogies of such orthodox notions as "field" and "modernity" and other concepts intellectuals in the East and West have used to understand the changing world around them. Contrasting reflections on everyday life in Japan and Europe, Harootunian shows how responses to capitalist society were expressed in similar ways: social critics in both regions alleged a broad sense of alienation, particularly among the middle class. However, he also points out that Japanese critics viewed modernity as a condition in which Japan -- without the lengthy period of capitalist modernization that characterized Europe and America -- was either "catching up" with those regions or "copying" them. As elegantly written as it is controversial, this book is both an invitation for rethinking intellectual boundaries and an invigorating affirmation that such boundaries can indeed be broken down.

本书清晰地陈述了不同社会理论关于文化的各种理论观点。

關注19世紀末至第二次中日戰爭時期中國境外的「南方」書寫
19世紀以降中國東南沿海華人移民海外已經蔚為風潮，乙未割臺、辛亥革命，以迄抗戰軍興更讓許多別有政治、文化懷抱的士子文人也參與了這一行列。他們漂泊離散，仕隱進退之間，寫作的境外漢詩，勾勒了繁複的文學播遷軌跡，亦辯證政治／文化遺民的精神處境。
從臺灣、廣東到香港；從新加坡、馬來半島到蘇門答臘，他們藉由文化、宗族和經濟的紐帶，將渺遠的唐山化為一處處在地的「現場」，竟然也形成無遠弗屆的疆域──一種安德森（Benedict Anderson）所不能想像的「想像的共同體」。這是地理空間意識的變異與重塑，也是漢詩的越界與生產。漢詩有著源遠流長的傳統，作為士人文化心靈的寄託與投射，漢詩因此成爲一代流亡知識分子銘刻歷史嬗變，見證家國離散，辯證現代性最重要的文學實踐。
《遺民、疆界與現代性：漢詩的南方離散與抒情（1895-1945）》是學者高嘉謙考察19世紀以降，面對世紀的新舊交替，殖民與西學衝擊，在中國南方、臺灣與南洋的詩人群體的離散際遇。從他們寫於境外的漢詩創作，探究一個政治／文化遺民的精神處境及漢詩文類的越界與現代性脈絡。
漢詩有著源遠流長的傳統，作為士人文化心靈的寄託與投射，漢詩因此成爲一代流亡知識分子銘刻歷史嬗變，見證家國離散的重要文學實踐。尤其經歷乙未、辛亥兩次政治鉅變，士紳百姓大規模遷徙，文化與文學的播遷軌跡尤其繁複，漢詩的流動與生產由此構成理解與辯證現代性最值得注意的文學形式。
漢詩的發展不僅僅侷限於中原國土疆界，從明清使臣、商賈的朝貢外交、貿易網絡，甚至更早的僧人、儒者的文化交流，促成中國邊境之外的漢字文化圈和漢字文化流動的區域──朝鮮半島、日本、琉球、越南、臺灣、新馬，都曾經有過漢詩蓬勃發展的生態。本書著眼於19世紀後期以降的文人跨洋出境，更大的意義是在「域外」或「境外」的位置上，突出一個漢詩寫作的意義和譜系。作者高嘉謙處理的時間跨度，始於一八九五年的乙未割臺事件，收束在日軍投降、二戰結束的一九四五年。前者從近代中國第一批遺民的誕生展開論述，後者以戰爭期間南來作家郁達夫的失蹤死亡，做為流寓詩學一個曖昧的結束或再生產。
此外，《遺民、疆界與現代性》關注的現代性面向，將放在時間和離散兩個部份。前者陳述了帝國覆滅、國體肇新，殖民體驗、都市化和文化與語言變革等等鉅變，將中國及東亞周邊導入現代化的線性時間。除了時間感，本書強調的現代性視域，另指向空間地理變異的體驗。
本書勾勒的脈絡，在於提出從中國境內到境外，一批傳統教養的士人階層，在紛亂時局內的離散際遇，以及透過漢詩展現的主體經驗。本書將透過遺民、離散、境外等關鍵的幾個概念範疇，去開展二十世紀漢詩寫作呈顯的現代性的種種可能。第一章講述晚清以降，士人投入古典詩學的寫作與論述。第二章從甲申、乙未與辛亥，遺民應世進退的三個歷史時刻切入，討論遺民與詩處理時間的形式。第三章清楚描述一個區域文學的可能規模，清理流寓類型與離散概念。第四章試圖論述臺灣漢詩譜系與遺民詩學的結構性起源：棄與地方意識的影響。第五章討論陳伯陶、《宋臺秋唱》與香港遺民地景，重新反思遺民身份的「發明」和「自我確認」，同時揭示民初香港離散詩學的重要特徵，殖民地裡想像與重申的遺民空間。第六章論述了康有為的南洋憂患。第七章敘述文人邱菽園的文人品味及文化資本積累而成的文學空間，最大的意義在於建構了一個中國、臺灣、香港與南洋區域之間的漢詩人交遊的網絡。第八章是從南來文學的場景，描述文化遺民面對的現實飄零與時空錯置。總結前面幾章的討論，提出文學現場的觀察。漢詩寫作、境外遷徙、遺民認同，三者構成的意義，連結到一個二十世紀漢文學播遷的區域客觀現實，補強了文學史看不見的「現場」。