James C. Scott is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University and current president of the Association of Asian Studies. He is the author of Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts, and The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, all published by Yale University Press.
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics -- the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not -- and cannot -- be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a "high-modernist ideology" that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans. "A broad-ranging, theoretically important, and empirically grounded treatment of the modern state and its propensity to simplify and make legible a society which by nature is complex and opaque. For anyone interested inlearning about this fundamental tension of modernity and about the destruction wrought in the twentieth century as a consequence of the dominant development ideology of the simplifying state, this is a must-read". -- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners
读斯科特《国家的视角》一书,特别是将这本书翻译出来以后,觉得有很多话想说,但是犹豫了很久,因为一直没有理清思路,怕话说不清楚,也就一直没有说。其实最开始吸引我的是这本书的副标题《那些试图改善人类状况的项目是如何失败的》,因为这个副标题至少在两个方面引起了我...
评分上路前,抓了几本书,其中就有这本。在火车上看完这本书后,收获很大,感想也很多。我不知道从应该如何来与大家一起分享读后感。这本书内容丰富,资料详实,证据充分,分析深入,有理有据,观点中肯,很多分析判断让人信服,应该说是一本好书,可是在这本书有让我对有的东西有...
评分据说对技术的批评从老子就开始了,前卫的老子成为了两千年后与海德格尔遥相呼应的素心人,而中间这段浩浩荡荡的时间光谱里,只要你想得出,尽可以把姓氏字母从A到Z的人塞进去。不信?18世纪以来,仅举以B开头的——以赛亚•伯林(Isaiah Berlin),齐格蒙特•鲍曼(Zygmunt...
评分杨荷:预期之外的复杂-评《国家的视角》 “我在头脑里建造一座样板城市,可以按照她来演变出所有可能的城市来,”忽必烈说,“她包含一切符合常规的东西。鉴于现有的城市都或多或少偏离常规,我就只须预先料想到常规的种种例外,便能计算出它们最可能的组合形式来。” ...
评分“我在头脑里建造一座样板城市,可以按照她来演变出所有可能的城市来,”忽必烈说,“她包含一切符合常规的东西。鉴于现有的城市都或多或少偏离常规,我就只须预先料想到常规的种种例外,便能计算出它们最可能的组合形式来。” ...
翻来覆去的high modernism vs local knowledge,第一二章用啰嗦的篇幅叙述了Weber精炼的”理性化”理论,忽视了理性化科层制与社会的相互作用,过于抬高metis,对不同理性的区分阐释不够,将国家行政计划和市场自我调节机制的逻辑等同因而混为一谈。总体理论亮点不多,写作太啰嗦。
评分引了我最爱的卡尔维诺!!!
评分城市规划和苏联集体化两章很精彩,最后对metis的强调不仅话痨,而且跑题。因为政治权力推行的high modernism是多种不同的意识形态,既未必涉及知识,也未必是为了改善人类状况。这不是认识论缺陷导致的失察,而是政治斗争的结果。(全书莫名话痨,可能为了强化一种metis吧。)
评分现在看起来,Scott同statist并没有本质区别,只是换了一边站罢了。
评分非常渴望了解的话题,可是书却让人非常看不下去。。。
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