历史
To Become a God 豆瓣
作者:
Michael J. Puett
出版社:
Harvard University Asia Center
2002
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Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper relationship between humans and gods. One pole of the debate saw the human and divine realms as separate and agonistic and encouraged divination to determine the will of the gods and sacrifices to appease and influence them. The opposite pole saw the two realms as related and claimed that humans could achieve divinity and thus control the cosmos. This wide-ranging book reconstructs this debate and places within their contemporary contexts the rival claims concerning the nature of the cosmos and the spirits, the proper demarcation between the human and the divine realms, and the types of power that humans and spirits can exercise. It is often claimed that the worldview of early China was unproblematically monistic and that hence China had avoided the tensions between gods and humans found in the West. By treating the issues of cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in a historical and comparative framework that attends to the contemporary significance of specific arguments, Michael J. Puett shows that the basic cosmological assumptions of ancient China were the subject of far more debate than is generally thought.
荒野与美国思想 豆瓣
Wilderness and the American Mind
作者:
[美] 罗德里克·弗雷泽·纳什
译者:
侯文蕙
/
侯钧
出版社:
中国环境科学出版社
2014
- 2
《荒野与美国思想》的前十二章,作者按照年代的先后,论述了荒野自旧大陆到新大陆不断变化的命运,从被仇视到被赞美,从被征服到被保护的整个过程;实际上,这也是美国思想的变化过程。美国人在不断调整对荒野认识的同时,也在调整着和自然的关系。毫无疑问,荒野是自然的一种客观存在;但是荒野的概念却是一个历史的范畴,是随着农耕生活的出现而产生的一-种认识,是与文明相对的一种概念。因此,在不同的文化传统中,对荒野的认识也不同;而且,随着历史的变迁,这种认识也在发生变化。在人的思想中,荒野有时是幽暗的,有时是灿烂的;在某些人的眼中可能是恐怖的,在另一些人看来则可能是壮美的。此时彼时,仁者智者,不尽相同。而且,令人纳罕的是,当人们认识到荒野必须得到保护之时,也就是荒野消失殆尽之时。 最后四章,主要讲了是20 世纪70—90 年代的美国荒野政策和管理及国内外的荒野现状。《荒野与美国思想》告诉我们,荒野由何而来,又向何而去。
《荒野与美国思想》自1967 年问世以来,已先后出了四版(1967,1973,1982,2001),印数达50 多万册,屡印不衰。它曾被《洛杉矶时报》评为“二战”后最有影响的100 本书之一,并被《户外》杂志看做是一本改变了世界的书。在学术界,它亦受到高度评价;40 多 年来,在美国高校中,该书一直被列为环境史学科和环境研究的必读书。时至今日,这部书已成为公认的一部经典。
《荒野与美国思想》自1967 年问世以来,已先后出了四版(1967,1973,1982,2001),印数达50 多万册,屡印不衰。它曾被《洛杉矶时报》评为“二战”后最有影响的100 本书之一,并被《户外》杂志看做是一本改变了世界的书。在学术界,它亦受到高度评价;40 多 年来,在美国高校中,该书一直被列为环境史学科和环境研究的必读书。时至今日,这部书已成为公认的一部经典。
A History of Silence 豆瓣
作者:
Alain Corbin
出版社:
Polity
2018
- 6
Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries.
It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and forests. Yet despite the centrality of silence to some of our most intense experiences, the transformations of the twentieth century have gradually diminished its value. Today, raucous urban spaces and a continual bombardment from different media pressure us into constant activity. We are losing a sense of our inner selves, a process that is changing the very nature of the individual.
This book rediscovers the wonder of silence and, with this, a richer experience of life. With his predilection for the elusive, Corbin calls us to listen to another history.
It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and forests. Yet despite the centrality of silence to some of our most intense experiences, the transformations of the twentieth century have gradually diminished its value. Today, raucous urban spaces and a continual bombardment from different media pressure us into constant activity. We are losing a sense of our inner selves, a process that is changing the very nature of the individual.
This book rediscovers the wonder of silence and, with this, a richer experience of life. With his predilection for the elusive, Corbin calls us to listen to another history.
The City in History 豆瓣
作者:
Lewis Mumford
出版社:
Harcourt
1968
- 10
Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. His tone is ultimately somewhat pessimistic: Mumford was deeply concerned with what he viewed as the dehumanizing aspects of the metropolitan trend, which he deemed "a world of professional illusionists and their credulous victims." (In another typically unrestrained criticism, he dubbed the Pentagon a Bronze Age monument to humanity's basest impulses, as well as an "effete and worthless baroque conceit.") Mumford hoped for a rediscovery of urban principles that emphasized humanity's organic relationship to its environment. The City in History remains a powerfully influential work, one that has shaped the agendas of urban planners, sociologists, and social critics since its publication in the 1960s.
Illuminating Women in the Medieval World 豆瓣
作者:
Christine Sciacca
出版社:
Getty Publications
2017
- 6
When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female labourers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, however, medieval conceptions of womanhood were multifaceted, and women's roles were varied and nuanced. Female stereotypes existed in the medieval world, but so too did women of power and influence. The pages of illuminated manuscripts reveal to us the many facets of medieval womanhood and slices of medieval life-from preoccupations with biblical heroines and saints to courtship, childbirth, and motherhood. While men dominated artistic production, this volume demonstrates the ways in which female artists, authors, and patrons were instrumental in the creation of illuminated manuscripts.
西北考察日记 豆瓣
作者:
何正璜
出版社:
中华书局
2015
- 2
何正璜、王子云夫妇是中国近代美术史上的泰斗级人物。在中国雕塑艺术家里,王子云是第一个对汉唐陵墓雕刻进行了几乎全部实地考察的人,留下了大量的摄影作品、拓片、复制品以及全景写生长卷。王子云1940年倡议、组建、主持、实施了长达五年之久的中国西北艺术文物考察团的活动,实为中国艺术文博界之开荒工作,何正璜正是在这次考察团中与王子云相识相恋进而相守一生,一起为中国艺术文物保护工作奉献了一生。何正璜的日记再现了当年的那段经历。一个志同道合、矢志不渝的爱情故事。日记文笔清丽、富有哲思,是学识才情的自然流露,任何一章一段都让人击节,掩卷叫好。
君主论 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.7 (11 个评分)
作者:
(意) 马基雅维利
译者:
刘训练
出版社:
中央编译出版社
2017
- 4
1815年6月18日,有人在拿破仑•波拿巴的马车座驾中发现了一些书籍文件,其中包括一份手稿……让人喜出望外的是,这份手稿不仅是《君主论》的新译本,而且页边还标有出自波拿巴之手的评注,这些评注涵盖了他担任将军、执政官、皇帝乃至被流放在厄尔巴岛的多个时期。
波拿巴不同的评注与不同的社会情形和政治局势息息相关,组合起来就成了一份非常有价值的评论,让人不带成见地辨别出马基雅维利的话中哪些是针对“新君主”所说,哪些是针对其他人所说……马基雅维利思想的本质将呈现在我们的这一版本中。
本书采取权威的《君主论》英文本和拿破仑批注法文本,两种译文相对照,详细展现了拿破仑在将军、执政官、皇帝、流放等四个时期对《君主论》的不同批注内容,有助于人们深化对《君主论》和拿破仑的认识,是西方政界特别珍视的“资治宝典”。
波拿巴不同的评注与不同的社会情形和政治局势息息相关,组合起来就成了一份非常有价值的评论,让人不带成见地辨别出马基雅维利的话中哪些是针对“新君主”所说,哪些是针对其他人所说……马基雅维利思想的本质将呈现在我们的这一版本中。
本书采取权威的《君主论》英文本和拿破仑批注法文本,两种译文相对照,详细展现了拿破仑在将军、执政官、皇帝、流放等四个时期对《君主论》的不同批注内容,有助于人们深化对《君主论》和拿破仑的认识,是西方政界特别珍视的“资治宝典”。
Inscribed Landscapes 豆瓣
作者:
Richard E. Strassberg
出版社:
University of California Press
1994
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Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. Early examples of the genre describe sites important for their geography, history, and role in cultural mythology, but by the T'ang dynasty in the mid-eighth century certain historiographical and poetic discourses converged to form the "travel account" (yu-chi) and later the "travel diary" (jih-chi) as vehicles of personal expression and autobiography. These first-person narratives provide rich material for understanding the attitudes of Chinese literati toward place, nature, politics, and the self.
The anthology is abundantly illustrated with paintings, portraits, maps, and drawings. Each selection is meticulously translated, carefully annotated, and prefaced by a brief description of the writer's life and work. The entire collection is introduced by an in-depth survey of the rise of Chinese travel writing as a cultural phenomenon. Inscribed Landscapes provides a unique resource for travelers as well as for scholars of Chinese literature, art, and history.
The anthology is abundantly illustrated with paintings, portraits, maps, and drawings. Each selection is meticulously translated, carefully annotated, and prefaced by a brief description of the writer's life and work. The entire collection is introduced by an in-depth survey of the rise of Chinese travel writing as a cultural phenomenon. Inscribed Landscapes provides a unique resource for travelers as well as for scholars of Chinese literature, art, and history.
追梦人 豆瓣
作者:
侯大伟
/
杨枫 主编
出版社:
四川人民出版社
2017
- 9
科幻在我国发展已过百年,期间历经坎坷,但在一代代科幻人的努力下,科幻文化已在中国广袤的土地上开枝散叶,结出丰硕的成果。
本书以图文并茂的形式,立足我国科幻事业的核心重镇四川成都,邀请杨潇、谭楷、流沙河、刘兴诗、王晓达、周孟璞、吴显奎、董仁威、何夕、姚海军等十位功勋卓著的科幻名家接受访谈,从人生旅程到科幻之路,构画新中国以来科幻文学发展的历史全貌,跨领域、多视角地展现了中国科幻所走过的半个多世纪艰难而辉煌的历程,充分见证了四川科幻人历久弥坚的执着与情怀,用鲜活的事例展现了四川科幻人为推动科幻事业蓬勃发展所立下的汗马功劳。全书不仅保存了珍贵的科幻口述史档案,还为中国科幻的研究和探索积累了丰富的史料。
本书以图文并茂的形式,立足我国科幻事业的核心重镇四川成都,邀请杨潇、谭楷、流沙河、刘兴诗、王晓达、周孟璞、吴显奎、董仁威、何夕、姚海军等十位功勋卓著的科幻名家接受访谈,从人生旅程到科幻之路,构画新中国以来科幻文学发展的历史全貌,跨领域、多视角地展现了中国科幻所走过的半个多世纪艰难而辉煌的历程,充分见证了四川科幻人历久弥坚的执着与情怀,用鲜活的事例展现了四川科幻人为推动科幻事业蓬勃发展所立下的汗马功劳。全书不仅保存了珍贵的科幻口述史档案,还为中国科幻的研究和探索积累了丰富的史料。
南宋初期政治史研究 豆瓣
作者:
[日]寺地遵
译者:
刘静贞
/
李今芸
出版社:
复旦大学出版社
2016
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北宋政权崩解后,继起的南宋高宗政权既需要快速有效地清理内部诸政治势力,重建朝廷威权,也必须思考如何应对敌国金压境的威胁。本书作者寺地遵教授引入政治学的“政治过程论”作为研究方法,细腻地描述了建炎元年(1127)至乾道元年(1165)间诸政治势力为掌握国家权力所进行的斗争,以及国家政策如何因应外在情势而调整,同时综合考察了各政治势力的社会背景。全书以绍兴十二年(1142)宋金和议形成分为前后两部,论述南宋政权自成立以来的运作与变化。讨论的时空虽在南宋初期,然自北方避敌南下的高宗皇帝以至文武官僚为巩固自身权、利,彼此纵横捭阖间对南宋政权性质所造成的影响,恰为理解传统中国政权体制内的权力冲突、抗争关系提供了有力的观察视角。