《五号屠场》的荒诞艺术与主题深化

美国当代作家库尔特.冯内古特最有影响的后现代小说《五号屠场》,以其独特的风格展现出战争的永久亘古和荒谬残酷。小说以荒诞的艺术手法揭露了战争的实质,深化了反战的主题。     

The Tavistock's 1945 invention of Organization Development: early British business and management applications of social psychiatry

The management field ‘Organization Development’ (OD), is said to have been invented in the mid-1950s in the USA. Some contribution post-1958 by the UK Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR), and to a minor extent, in its World War II ‘group-relations’ work is acknowledged. Otherwise, OD depicts the circle of its US ‘founding father’ Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) as its historic mainspring. A new 1945 primary source, the TIHR's originating funding proposal to the Rockefeller Foundation, proposes all the components of OD, outside mention of Lewin et al. Thus, what was to become OD was invented in the Britain of 1945, not the USA of the 1950s.     

新历史主义视阈下的《囚鸟》

《囚鸟》通过一个历史人物与虚构人物共同组成的世界，对20世纪以来的美国历史进行了反思，形成了一个新历史主义小说文本，揭露了美国政治“制度化暴力”的本质和“自由企业制度”经济体制的弊端。在主题思想上的这种向新历史主义的回归以及它在艺术表现手法上所体现出的纯熟的后现代主义技巧，是对沉迷于文字游戏本身的后现代小说的一种超越。     

Consequences of increasing scarcity on affluent countries

A theory of continuous structural changes in countries and a theory of discontinuous structural changes are used to predict the consequences of increasing scarcity on countries with some affluence. The prognosis is disheartening. According to the theory of continuous change, increasing scarcity will directly or indirectly increase the inequality, centralization, disintegration, disturbances, repression, and both national and international conflict and will directly or indirectly decrease socioeconomic development, legitimacy, and democracy. These changes will be unpopular and create pressures for discontinuous change to prevent them. Furthermore, increasing scarcity will increase the desire for structural change and weaken the regime's capacity to manage the situation. Thus the pressure for structural change will be strong. Scarcity also interferes with the peaceful restructuring of democracies in their efforts to cope with the crisis. When these theories are used in predicting the future of modern countries under conditions of prolonged scarcity, they suggest that elitist democracies and elitist nondemocracies are likely to be restructured into egalitarian nondemocracies. Egalitarian democracies will survive as such if they are blessed with exceptional leadership. Otherwise they also might be restructured in the direction of egalitarian nondemocracy.     

库尔特·亨泽尔的数学人生

亨泽尔是德国著名数学家，提出了p进数，极大地促进了数论的发展。在文献研读和概念分析法的基础上，通过分析亨泽尔自幼的成长环境、特有的求学经历以及进一步与哈塞发展p进数得到局部-整体原则的历程，展现亨泽尔不凡的数学人生。