What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind.

We are all classicists - we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original reality?

【内容紹介】謎多き人物、柿本人麻呂とは??柿本人麻呂といえば万葉の時代を生きた歌聖としてあまりにも有名だが、その生涯については謎が多い。「万葉集」の権威・中西進が、柿本人麻呂と彼が生きた古代国家について興味深い話を聴かせてくれる。【講師紹介】奈良県立万葉文化館館長 中西進- 1929年東京都生まれ。「万葉集」など古代文化の比較研究を主に、日本文化の全体像を視野におさめた研究・評論活動で知られる。大佛次郎賞、和辻哲郎文化賞ほか多数受賞。

In Homer, Barbara Graziosi considers Homer's famous works and their impact on readers throughout the centuries. She shows how The Iliad and The Odyssey benefit from a tradition of reading that spans well over two millennia, stemming from ancient scholars at the library of Alexandria, in the third and second centuries BCE, who wrote some of the first commentaries on the Homeric epics. Summaries of these scholars' notes made their way into the margins of Byzantine manuscripts; from Byzantium the annotated manuscripts traveled to Italy.

【内容紹介】足利義満が奨励した能、足利義政が好んだ書院造や茶道などの様式、唐に学んだ漢詩、如拙らの書画。今日の芸術文化に大きな影響を与えた室町文化について、金閣寺、銀閣寺を守る有馬氏が語ります。【講師紹介】臨済宗相国寺派管長 有馬頼底- 1933年、東京都生まれ。久留米藩主有馬家の子孫。古代から近世に至るまでの墨蹟、茶道具などにも造詣が深い。著書『古寺巡礼京都相国寺』など多数。

This lively and engaging book is the ideal introduction for anyone who has ever been puzzled by what philosophy is or what it is for. Edward Craig argues that philosophy is not an activity born from another planet; learning about it is just a matter of broadening and deepening what most of us do already. He shows that philosophy is no mere intellectual pastime.

For thousands of years, Latin has been the language of the Roman people, of science, of history, and of culture. The Latin for Beginners audiobook will guide your learning of this fascinating and beautiful language.

Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guide begins his discussion with the oldest, "arts" end of the subject and moves chronologically through to the newest research - the "science" aspects.

This very short introduction offers listeners a superb overview of the teachings of the Buddha, as well as a succinct guide to the integration of Buddhism into daily life.

正しいことしか許されない時代に、「誤る」ことの価値を考える。世界を覆う分断と人工知能の幻想を乗り越えるためには、「訂正可能性」に開かれることが必要だ。ウィトゲンシュタインを、ルソーを、ドストエフスキーを、アーレントを新たに読み替え、ビッグデータからこぼれ落ちる「私」の固有性をすくい出す。

In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, David Norman discusses how dinosaurs were first discovered and interpreted and how our understanding of them has changed over the past 200 years. He looks at some of the amazing discoveries that have enabled us to gain new and unexpected insights into dinosaurs as animals with natural histories and behaviors and considers some of the biggest questions in dinosaur biology, such as the implications of them having warm blood.

With his well known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner's introduction to the philosopher's life and work examines the numerous ambiguities inherent in his writings and explodes many of the misconceptions that have grown in the hundred years since Nietzsche wrote "do not, above all, confound me with what I am not!"

One of the leading philosophical movements of the 20th century, existentialism has had more impact on literature and the arts than any other school of thought. Focusing on the leading figures of existentialism, including Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Camus, Thomas Flynn offers a concise account of existentialism, explaining the key themes of individuality, free will, and personal responsibility, which marked the movement as a way of life, not just a way of thinking.

日本にいま必要なのは「訂正する力」です。

【内容紹介】天智天皇の後継者をめぐって天智の子・大友皇子と天智の弟・大海人皇子との間に起きた壬申の乱。この争乱にまつわる数多くの疑問を、古代史を専門とする遠山美都男先生がひも解きます。【講師紹介】大学講師 遠山美都男- 1957年東京都生まれ。学習院大学文学部史学科卒業。学習院大学・立教大学などの非常勤講師を勤める。著書『大化改新』『壬申の乱』など多数。