赵左《松泉高士图》轴及其它

前些时,在友人家中,看到一幅明朝画家赵左的作品,甚精彩,一起品茗观画,颇为愉悦。此图现为私家所藏。这幅作品为绢本大幅,纵185厘米、横100厘米,纯以水墨画成,作者是明代后期的画家赵左。画幅的右上方有作者自题:“丙辰秋仲写,赵左”,下钤印章两方:“文度”(朱方)、“赵左”(白方)。赵左之名,见于多处画史之中。择其要者录如下:赵文度名左,华亭人。与董文敏同郡同     

嵇康《与山巨源绝交书》非绝交之书论

嵇康《与山巨源绝交书》，自今存文本观，不见明确绝交的任何言辞及语气；自早期相关历史资料考察，亦不见嵇康与山涛之间曾经绝交的任何记载；自嵇康与山涛二人全部关系分析，亦无“绝交”之任何事理；故而此书实非绝交之书；嵇康与山涛之间，实未尝发生绝交之事态。嵇康撰写此书意图，只是表明不愿出仕心志、拒绝山涛“举康自代”之议。至於本文篇名作“绝交书”，既与文本内容不符，亦不合历史事实，盖后人所拟。其所拟时间约在南朝刘宋之后。     

论《活着》的生命意识

余华在《活着》中通过福贵一家的生存困境表达了人生即苦的观念,但同时在死亡中赋予了"活着"的信念,即在苦难中复活了人,重新发现了人生困境中许多温暖的善良的人性,他用忍耐和亲情给予人"活着"的精神力量,表现了他生之坚韧和生之乐观的人生态度。     

生命考验的旅程——读《追寻生命的灯》

李路阳女士的内心深处,埋藏着一种挥之不去的西藏情结。她前后去了那个神秘的高山之域几次了,却好像还没有尽兴。她不断地自问：为什么要乐此不疲地往西藏跑?在最近出版的这本记录着她西藏之旅的书里回答说：“寻找生命之灯”!     

从《飞蛾之死》和《小麻雀》看弱小生命的生存

动荡的二十世纪上半叶,中西方都在战争和萧条中对人的命运苦苦思索着。《飞蛾之死》中小小的飞蛾维护生命给人抗争的勇气,《小麻雀》中受伤小雀那生死的悬念给人抗击的理性思考。弱者如何生存,其实也就是面对浩淼自然而相形平常的人类如何生存的问题。两相比较,可以反省目前人类自身的生存状态。     

简析冯至《十四行集》中的生命意识

冯至的《十四行集》有存在主义的共性,除此之外,诗句的字里行间透露着朴素的思辨与哲理意味。可以说,《十四行集》是诗人将西方的存在主义哲学与我国的传统哲学进行揉合,基于其深切的生命体验创作出来的生命之歌。包括对生命内涵的沉思,对生命经营的沉思,对生命经历的沉思及对生命交流的沉思。     

《庄子》生命之“顺”

《庄子》顺思想具有多层面性、多线索性和流动性,顺思想体现于生命领域也是如此。安时而处顺和安命便涉及生命领域的顺,而悦生恶死和伤性尽殉乃是生命领域失顺之显现。针对干扰生命之顺的因素,为了重建生命之顺,《庄子》提出了实现的路径:顺命。顺命包括安顺死生之命、安顺命运之命和安顺大戒之命等等。     

从《生命是什么?》到分子生物学

奥地利物理学家埃尔温·薛定谔于1944年出版了《生命是什么?》,阐明了用物理学的新观点研究生命现象的重要性,他从生物学已有的研究成果中引申出许多新的课题,直接或间接地促进了分子生物学的产生。从中可以看出,21世纪,世界许多重大科学技术的突破都需要依靠跨学科的发展。     

生命的神话 生活的智慧--略论《指引生命的神话》

《指引生命的神话》是美国神话学大师约瑟夫·坎贝尔的一本神话学文集。坎贝尔认为,在当下生活中,神话与宗教起到精神支柱的作用,尤其是对心理疾病的治疗和社会道德的匡正方面。他看到东西文明以及心理上的巨大差异,但是他也坚持“单一神话”的理念,认为世界上多种多样的神话模式具有一致性。这本书不仅是一部学术著作,更是一本指导人生之路、提供生活智慧的心灵指南。这本书的翻译,是中国文学人类学的又一理论成果。     

日本对华直接投资的区位选择分析--兼论东北三省吸引日资的对策

日本是我国最大的外资来源国之一,日资的进入对我国国民经济的拉动作用显而易见。从日本对外直接投资区位的总体格局来看,发达国家占绝对优势,我国所占的比重虽不大,但增长势头良好。明确我国在日本对外直接投资中的地位,研究其对华直接投资的区位选择机制,对我国改善投资区位条件,提升在日本全球化生产格局中的分工地位有重要意义。本文从投资动机和区位要素两个方面来考察日本对华直接投资的区位选择机制。在此基础上,最后对地理上与日本临近的东北三省予以特别的关注,就如何吸引日资提出了几点对策。     

现代评论派政治理念及其困境探析

现代评论派作为自由主义政治派别,通过政论时评积极宣扬其政治理念,内容主要包括个人自由观、法治观、渐进改良观、精英政治观等,不过囿于现实社会的黑暗与压迫,和政治理念本身的软弱,最终导致现代评论派陷入"无地自由"的尴尬境地。通过考察现代评论派政治理念的成因和表现,以及其政治理念所面临的困境,将有助于剖析自由主义知识分子群体的政治态度和思想文化,为探究自由主义思潮在近代中国的流变提供一个入手的角度。     

Hugh Trevor-Roper and the history of ideas

A wave of recent publication connected to Hugh Trevor-Roper offers cause to take stock of his life and legacy. He is an awkward subject because his output was so protean, but a compelling one because of his significance for the resurgence of the history of ideas in Britain after 1945. The article argues that the formative period in Trevor-Roper's life was 1945–57, a period curiously neglected hitherto. It was at this time that he pioneered a history of ideas conceived above all as the study of European liberal and humanist tradition. Analysis of the relative importance of contemporary and early modern history in his oeuvre finds that, while the experience of Hitler and the Cold War was formative, it was not decisive.Trevor-Roper was at heart an early modernist who did not abjure specialization.However, he insisted that specialized study must be accompanied by “philosophical” reflection on the workings of a constant human nature present throughout history, a type of reflection best pursued by reading classical historians such as Gibbon and Burckhardt.Yet this imperative in turn fostered purely historical research into the history of historical writing – another branch of the history of ideas.     

Men in upheaval: integrating Hong Kong politics and critical studies of men and masculinities

Abstract

In this short review, we explain the need for a multidimensional analytical framework for exploring how the construction of men and masculinities has shaped Hong Kong’s social and political development, and how politics both enable and constrain men in their lived experiences and practices in various life spheres at the city’s current political juncture. We observe that the majority of the extant research on men and masculinities in Hong Kong is depoliticized, whereas studies on current Hong Kong politics are largely gender-blind. However, the ever-tightening grip of the Chinese Communist Party and the instances of political resistance in response, namely, the Umbrella Movement of 2014 and Fishball Revolution of 2016, suggest that the influence of the wider political situation has penetrated every dimension of life, which has considerable implications for masculine identities and practices. Rather than continuing to conduct the depoliticized masculinity studies and genderless political studies we have seen to date, it is time for a thorough investigation of the dynamic intersection of men’s practices and the political context of Hong Kong.     

唐代举子游丐之风--《太平广记》所见唐代举子生活态之一

本文以《太平广记》所载的举子游丐资料为基本素材,探究唐代举子游丐现象产生的原因及社会地位,进而从另一个侧面对唐代士子阶层进行研究。     

关于生与死的探讨与沉思

生与死是一个古老而又沉重的话题。要正确深刻地探讨这个问题,可能条件还不很具备。本人只是想借重前贤的智慧与奇思妙想,沿着他们思维的足迹,作进一步的思考与探索,就灵魂有无的问题,有无因果报应的问题,气与灵的问题,乃至宇宙本体的问题等,表述一些个人的体会与想法。     

中西之间：杨昌济的伦理世界及其对西方的认知——以《各种伦理主义之略述及概评》为例

杨昌济的伦理学思想的形成深受中国传统文化特别是湖湘文化的影响,也受西方近代资产阶级自由平等伦理思想的影响。由于受中国传统文化濡染较深,杨昌济从立志、修身、齐家、为学等四个方面对中国传统伦理思想进行了阐释。杨昌济以中学为体,在《各种伦理主义之略述及概评》②一文中对西方伦理学思想进行批判。总体而言,他的伦理思想是建立在民族主义基础之上;中西结合;志趣高雅、客观务实;立足现实,具有承上启下的作用。     

Feelings of distance and proximity: exploring the emotional geographies of men caregiving for family members with multiple chronic conditions

Care exchanges are imbued with emotion, yet few geography of caregiving researchers have explored how emotions shape such experiences. Furthermore, the emotions of caregiver men have been largely overlooked. As such, this secondary analysis aims to geographically explore the emotion discourse of a diverse group of men caregiving for family members with multiple chronic conditions. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with nineteen men caregivers in Canada, our thematic findings reveal that the men’s discourse portrayed emotions experienced relationally at three levels: Between the caregivers and their own selves, others and the wider community. It was also found that the men commonly expressed their emotional experiences using geographic notions of distance (e.g. feeling far, isolated) and proximity (e.g. feeling close, connected) and that these emotions were further complicated by the participants’ diversity or situated ‘place-in-the-world’. Overall, our findings demonstrate the importance of emotional geographies in caregiver men’s lived realities and how they move between distance and proximity in order to manage their emotions as caregivers. By considering caregiver diversity and the role emotions play in shaping caregiver experiences, programs, services and best practice can become better informed on ways to enhance the provision of more context sensitive and equitable caregiver support.     

The Use of Gasoline: Value, Oil, and the "American way of life"

Abstract:  While the critical literature has focused on the geography of oil production, the politics of "outrageous" gasoline prices in the United States provide a fertile path toward understanding the wider geography of petro-capitalism. Despite the deepening contradictions of US oil consumption, "pain at the pump" discourse projects a political sense of entitlement to low priced gasoline. I use a value-theoretical perspective to examine this politics as not only about the quantitative spectrum of price, but also the historical sedimentation of qualitative use-values inscribed in the commodity gasoline. Gasoline is analyzed both as a use-value among many within the postwar value of labor power and as a singular use-value fueling broader imaginaries of a national "American way of life." While use-value still represents an open site of cultural and political struggle infused within value itself, the case of gasoline illustrates how use-values are not automatically mobilized toward politically savory ends.     

Caregiving as mobility constraint and opportunity: married daughters providing end of life care in northern Ghana

In the global south where care services are sparse and familial care remains practically and socially important, end of life care often occurs within families. Furthermore, in health care related policy development, care is often assumed to be ensured by ‘traditional’ norms of extended family relationships. In this context, the demands of providing care may require care providers to relocate, as well as reorganize their everyday responsibilities. This article contributes to geographies of care by offering an examination of the mobility constraints experienced by married and externally-resident daughters seeking to provide end of life care to a parent in northern Ghana. Drawing on ethnographic research, I examine how particular familial relationships are embedded with socially constructed labour obligations, leading to conflicting responsibilities at a parent’s end of life. I then consider how a woman as a daughter works to overcome these constraints to provide end of life care. I conclude that understanding the mobility of care providers can contribute to avoiding potentially damaging assumptions of ‘traditional’ norms of care and is an important consideration towards understanding the geographies of care in the rural global south.