开普勒三定律发现的启示——兼谈李约瑟难题

从开普勒发现行星运动三定律前后这段物理学史中,可以总结出知识存在的三种形态,即:事实形态、规律形态和理论形态。透过知识形态的转变可以看到宇宙的和谐性以及西方人追求用演绎的方法来生产和组织知识的策略,这两点都来自于古希腊哲学家。中国没有产生近代科学的直接原因之一是古代中国人没有形成宇宙和谐性的信念且没有掌握用演绎的方法来生产新知识。     

19世纪下半叶美国黑幕揭发传统

“镀金时代”的美国社会问题涌现。为维护社会公正,以斯克里普斯和普利策为首的报业主积极鼓励“黑幕揭发”,全方位地揭露美国社会阴暗面,为20世纪初美国黑幕揭发运动奠定了基础。     

Exposure to the eyes of God: monitorial schools and Evangelicals in early nineteenth‐century England

Through a close analysis of the links between nineteenth‐century Protestant missionary thought and the British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) this article suggests that to distinguish Enlightenment educational and social reform from evangelism is mistaken. Emblematic of the social reform projects which emerged in England as responses to the challenges of the French Revolution and rapid urbanisation, the BFSS was the outgrowth of Joseph Lancaster’s efforts at spreading the method of education he pioneered, the monitorial system, throughout the British Isles and, ultimately, the world. Despite the strong association between the BFSS and various utilitarian thinkers, evangelicals of late‐eighteenth and early‐nineteenth‐century England came to view the Society and the monitorial system as means by which to integrate all the peoples of the world into the Lord’s dominion. Becoming part of that dominion entailed subjecting oneself to constant moral scrutiny, and monitorial schools were regarded as a means by which to ensure such self‐examination. In short, missionaries seized upon monitorial schools because their aims were parallel to those of educational reformers in the metropole. Where home reformers aimed at the normalisation of the body of English political subjects, the development of the English social body, missionary reformers aimed at the normalisation of the body of God’s children.     

Re-Animating Joseph Beuys' “Social Sculpture”: Artistic Interventions and the Occupy Movement

Since making its presence felt in September 2011, the Occupy movement has drawn upon aesthetic-affective techniques and cooperative structures developed in socially engaged art practices from the mid-twentieth century onwards—such as Joseph Beuys' notion of “social sculpture”—as resources for producing new social compositions. These practices extend the concept of art into a social plastic form that reshapes and re-forms our subjectivities, the way we communicate, our social structures and by extension, the world we inhabit. At the same time, before the mass evictions of Occupy took place across North America, the movement placed a heavy emphasis on visibility and space. Its short-term strategies and successes were largely owed to the seizing of a particularly opportune moment in a highly visible space that provided a symbolic frame for “Occupy Wall Street as event.” This paper explores the possibility that the eviction of Occupy from its encampments was not the disaster bemoaned by many of its participants—or the failure celebrated by its detractors—but a renewed opportunity for social composition.     

Cataloging a Contested Classic: Joseph Baldwin's The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi (1853)

This article discusses the publication history of a significant pre-Civil War work of legal literature and considers controversies caused by the book's contents and cataloging errors caused by its various editions. It appends a bibliography of all print editions.     

独尊儒术与文艺复兴——对东西方科学发展思想的解读

科学发展的主体是人,人的思想解放程度和思维方式是科学发展的重要的内在因素。独尊儒术和文艺复兴在东西方人类思想解放的历史发展过程中起了截然不同的作用,对东西方科学的发展产生了截然不同的巨大影响。     

试论《黑暗的心》中环境的象征意义

揭示约瑟夫.康拉德著名短篇小说《黑暗的心》中环境的象征意义,分析小说中运用的象征主义的创作手法在深化和丰富小说主题、思想内涵及意蕴方面的重要作用,肯定了该作品在文学史上的地位。     

Ethical Concern in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

In Catch-22, Joseph Heller shows his ethical concern behind absurdity, which is manifested from his attitude toward individualism and utilitarianism, religious belief, sexual promiscuity, interpersonal...     

论英国伦敦会传教士艾约瑟与中国女子教育

西方传教士重视女子教育,开办女子学校,开了女子学校教育的先河,在一定程度上冲击了中国传统礼教对女子的束缚。文章在研究艾约瑟的著作和国内外众多学者的相关研究资料基础上。阐述了教会女子教育在华的发展概况及艾约瑟支持中国女子教育的一些观点和行为。并分析了其对中国女子教育产生的影响。     

荒诞之中的理性

该文力求分析《第二十二条军规》的选材和常规表现手法。文章从对该小说的选材、写作视角和常规表现手法的分析中找到了其非常规手段表现内容的对立面,正是这些对立面的存在使整部小说在荒诞可笑中交织着正常与理性,从而使文章主题更突出、更具现实意义。这些都是该小说能够作为严肃文学,经久不衰,深受欢迎的原因。