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。

Both scholarly and diverting, "Imagining Atlantis" has beenhailed as the most important book ever written about the Atlantislegend and its perennial appeal. 46 illustrations. 5 maps.

有人说：能不累吗？中小学生要应付学业，大学生愁于就业，工作的人谋求更高的工作岗位和更适合自己的职业，更别说复杂的人际关系带给我们的困扰。不能否认，我们身处一个竞争异常激烈的时代。就拿学生的学习来说，课业负担异常繁重，从小学一年级开始，孩子就要承受巨大的学*担。教育主管部门也好，家长也好，都已认识到这一弊端，大声呼吁并采取一定措施为孩子减负，但效果却不那么尽如人意。究其原因，是时代的快速发展给人以极强烈的紧迫感，让你无法停留。“学如逆水行舟，不进则退。”为了不居人后，人们拼命给自己增加压力。学习是这样，工作、婚姻、生活以及做人做事又何尝不是这样？但是，人的承受能力是有限的，过大的压力会带来身体和精神方面的巨大伤害。西方人有去看心理医生的习惯，而中国人不会把压力带给人的身心困扰看

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.

佛教称人生为一大苦难场，生、老、病、死都是人的一辈子必须承受的折磨，所以希望人看破红尘，对人生不要有什么留恋。与此相反，道教则对现实的生命极为看重，因为它认为，人只有有了生命，才能享受人世的种种乐趣。如晋代道教学者葛洪就说：“凡人之所汲汲者，势利嗜欲也。苟我身之不全，虽高官重权，金玉成山，妍艳万千，非我有也。”唐代道士司马承祯更是直截了当地说∶“生者天之大德也，地之大乐也，人之大福也。”正因为道教重视生命，所以他们特别注重生命质量的提高，所谓生命质量的提高，就是让生命排除生、老、病、死的干扰，更好、更多地享受生命。也正是为了提高这一生命质量，道士们在几千年的修炼实践中，摸索出了种类繁多、行之有效的道教养生术。

本卷是弗洛伊德有关人类学、社会学、文化学、宗教学、历史学和哲学等方面的代表性著作，共包含两部作品。《图腾与禁忌》1913年出版，通过蒙昧人与强迫神经症患者的比较，推断了图腾崇拜的本原意义。《摩西与一神教》1939年出版，是弗洛伊德生前完成的一部著作，它深入浅出地剖析了一神教的本质和起源。这些论著基本上属于弗洛伊德心理哲学的范畴。