Unit One 1
Text：The Reality of the External World 1
Study ＆ Practice 5
Reading Passage One：Philosophers’Doubts 9
Reading Passage Two：If We Are to Survive this Dark Time 14
Unit Two 19
Text：Historian in an Age of Crisis 20
Study ＆ Practice 28
Reading Passage One：Martin Luther King 32
Reading Passage Two：To Make Them Stand in Fear 36
Unit Three 40
Text：The Subject-matter of Ethics 41
Study ＆ Practice 47
Reading Passage One：Simple Cultural Relativism 51
Reading Passage Two:Ethics 55
Unit Four 60
Text:Religion and Reality 60
Study ＆ Practice 65
Reading Passage One：Honor the Divine 69
Reading Passage Two：Salvation 74
Unit Five 77
Text:Sign,Signified,Signifier 78
Study ＆ Practice 83
Reading Passage One:What Is Language? 88
Reading Passage Two:Language and Thought 91
Unit Six 97
Text:Some Co-ordinates of Art Criticism 98
Study ＆ Practice 103
Reading Passage One:The Aim of the True Students of Aesthetics 108
Reading Passage Two:The Work of Art 112
Unit Seven 117
Text:The Work of Art as Imaginary Object 118
Study ＆ Practice 122
Reading Passage One:Pavlova 127
Reading Passage Two:The Aim of Music 130
Unit Eight 135
Text:What is Real? 136
Study ＆ Practice 142
Reading Passage One:Letter to a Young Poet 146
Reading Passage Two:My Mother's Fall 150
Unit Nine 156
Text：The Mass Media:What is Newsworthy? 157
Study ＆ Practice 162
Reading Passage One:Interview with Martin Luther King 166
Reading Passage Two:Interview with Martin Luther King(continued) 171
Unit Ten 177
Text:The Analysis of Culture 178
Study ＆ Practice 182
Reading Passage One:Looking Backward at Cultural Studies 186
Reading Passage Two:Nurture and Culture 191
Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exercises(Units 1-10) 196
Appendix Ⅱ Chinese Translations of the Texts(Units1-10) 205
Appendix Ⅲ Glossary 224