当代西方文艺赏析

Unit One Three Key Terms for Western Literature & Art 1

I Culture 2

II Western 8

III Contemporary 11

Unit Two Science and the Humanities 19

I Defi ning Human Knowledge 20

II The Rise of Western Humanism 25

III Humanism in Crisis 30

Unit Three Brain and Mind 41

I The Field of Psychology 42

II Sigmund Freud 46

III From Freud Onward 49

Unit Four Ethics and Aesthetics 61

I Ethics Since Antiquity 62

II Aesthetics in Theory and Practice 67

III The Postmodern Ethical and Aesthetical Turns 72

Unit Five Sex and Gender 83

I Interpreting the Difference 84

II The Feminist Movements 90

III Gender Troubles 95

Unit Six East and West 103

I Approaching China 104

II Politicizing the Orient 111

III A Case of Encounter: The Chinese American 115

Unit Seven History and Histories 123

I The Traces of History 124

II Historicism 127

III Small Narratives and New Historicism 130

Unit Eight Nations and the Globe 141

I Formation of Nations 142

II Going Global 146

III Beyond Globalization 151