CONTENTS
Unit One
Text: The Reality of the Extemal World
Study & Practice
Reading Passage One: Philosophers' Doubts
Reading Passage Two: If We Are to Survive this Dark Time
Unit Two
Text: Historian in an Age of Crisis
Study & Practice
Reading Passage One: Martin Luther King
Reading Passage Two: To Make Them Stand in Fear
UnitThree
Text: The Subject-matter of Ethics
Study & Practice
Reading Passage One: Simple Cultural Relativism
Reading Passage Two: Ethics
Unit Four
Text: Religion and Reality
Study & Practice
Reading Passage Qne: Honor the Divine
Reading Passage Two: Salvation
Unit Five
Text: Sign, Signified Signifier
Study & Practice
Reading Passage One: What Is Language?
Reading Passage Two: Language and Thought
Unit Six
Text: Some Co-ordinates of Art Criticism
Study & Practice
Reading Passage One: The Aim of the True Students of Aesthetics
Reading Passage Two: The Work of Art
Unit Seven
Text: The Work of Art as Imaginary Object
Study & Practice
Reading Passage One: Pavlova
Reading Passage Two: The Aim of Music
Unit Eight
Text: WhatisReal?
Study & Practice
Reading Passage One: Letter to a Young Poet
Reading Passage Two: My Mother's Fall
Unit Nine
Text: The Mass Media: What is Newsworthy?
Study & Practice
Reading Passage One: Interview with Martin Luther King
Reading Passage Two: Interview with Martin Luther King (continued)
Unit Ten
Text: The Analyas of Culture
Study & Practice
Reading Passage One: Looking Backward at Cultural Studies
Reading Passage Two: Nurture and Culture
Appendix 1 Key to Exercises .(Units 1 - 10)
AppendixII Chinese Translations of the Texts (Units 1-10)
AppendixIII Glossary