本书以后现代主义为主题，辑录了一批世界的作家和批评家的相关文论。这些文章中，有作家对自己的作品阐释和对自己创作经验的陈述，有多位作家、评论家对于某位文学师师的各具特色的评论和阐释，也有当今世界上一些重要的文学批语流派、文学思潮的代表文献。
本书以后现代主义为主题，辑录了一批世界的作家和批评家的相关文论。这些文章中，有作家对自己的作品阐释和对自己创作经验的陈述，有多位作家、评论家对于某位文学师师的各具特色的评论和阐释，也有当今世界上一些重要的文学批语流派、文学思潮的代表文献。
本书包括：价值与货币；货币的特质性价值；目的序列中的货币；个体自由；个人价值之货币等价物；生活风格等。
本书包括：价值与货币；货币的特质性价值；目的序列中的货币；个体自由；个人价值之货币等价物；生活风格等。
Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for theastonishing originality with which it weaves together personalhistory, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts bySophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is aprofound exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is alsoa meditation in which the author uses his own divided life toinvestigate the "rich conflictedness of things," the double livesall of us lead. Daniel Mendelsohn recalls the deceptively quiet suburb where hegrew up, torn between his mathematician father's pursuit ofscientific truth and the exquisite lies spun by his Orthodox Jewishgrandfather; the streets of manhattan's newest "gay ghetto," where"desire for love" competes with "love of desire;" and the quietmoonlit house where a close friend's small son teaches him themeaning of fatherhood. And, finally, in a neglected Jewishcemetery, the author uncovers a family secret that revealsthe universal need for storytelling, for inventing myths of theself.
Renaissance man, Elizabethan philsopher, and scholar RobertFludd sought to integrate the whole of human knowledge within adivine and hierarchically ordered cosmology. After completing hiseducation at Oxford University, he journeyed throughout Europeseeking the knowledge of mystics, scientists, musicians,physicians, and alchemists, leading to the publication of manyhistorically influential works on science, medicine, andphilosophy.
