UNIT ONE 1
Warm-up 1
Text：Science vs.the Humanities 2
Supplementary Readings：A．A Liberal Education 19
B．Physics and Reality 23
UNIT TWO 28
Warm-up 28
Text：Roentgen and the X Ray 29
Supplementary Readings：A.Radioactive Substances 46
B．Natural Selection 50
UNIT THREE 55
Warm-up 55
Text：The Age of Advertising 56
Supplementary Readings：A.The Language of Advertising 75
B．An Ethic of Clarity 78
UNIT FOUR 86
Warm-up 86
Text：A Jazz Tradition 87
Supplementary Readings：A．The New Music 104
B．Flowering of American Music 106
UNIT FIVE 115
Warm-up 115
Text：The Science of Custom 116
Supplementary Readings：A．Kachin Society 134
B．The Individual and the Pattern of Culture 137
UNIT SIX 145
Warm-up 145
Text：Labor，Leisure，and the New Class 146
Supplementary Readings：A．Conspicuous Consumption 163
B．Conspicuous Leisure 166
UNIT SEVEN 172
Warm-up 172
Text：The Study of Man 173
Supplementary Readings：A．Parts of Animals 190
B．Values 193
UNIT EIGHT 199
Warm-up 199
Text：You and the Drama 200
Supplementary Readings：A．The Renaissance 217
B．The Effects of Poetry and Drama 220
UNIT NINE 225
Warm-up 225
Text：Plato s Philosophy 226
Supplementary Readings：A．The Struggle for Wisdom 243
B．Definition of the Philosopher 247
Warm-up 252
UNIT TEN 252
Text：Society and the Individual 253
Supplementary Readings：A．Civilization 270
B．Applications 272
UNIT ELEVEN 278
Warm-up 278
Text：The Language of Colors，Myths，and Symbols 279
Supplementary Readings：A．Language and Thought 299
B．Symbolic Language 301
Warm-up 307
UNIT TWELVE 307
Text：Societal Controls and Government 308
Supplementary Readings：A．Independence 327
B．Proletarians and Communists 329
UNIT THIRTEEN 335
Warm-up 335
Text：The Fabric of Meaning 336
Supplementary Readings：A．The New Key 356
B．The Object of Life 358
Warm-up 363
UNIT FOURTEEN 363
Text：Literature as Role-playing 364
Supplementary Readings：A．Language and Literature 381
B．The Poetics:XIII 384
UNIT FIFTEEN 389
Warm-up 389
Text：Art 390
Supplementary Readings：A．The Origin of the Work of Art 408
B．Aesthetics 411