American Vertigo 在线电子书 图书标签: 托克维尔 贝尔纳—亨利·列维(Bernard-Henri 美国研究 美国 社会 Lévy)
发表于2024-12-23
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贝尔纳-亨利·莱维(BerTlard Henri Levy)是现今活跃于欧美文坛的作家、记者、活动家和电影制作人,著有《带着人脸的野蛮》和《谁杀了丹尼尔.珀尔》等,并曾摄制纪录片《波斯尼亚》和《萨拉热窝死亡的一天》。
What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country.
The result is American Vertigo, a fascinating, wholly fresh look at a country we sometimes only think we know. From Rikers Island to Chicago mega-churches, from Muslim communities in Detroit to an Amish enclave in Iowa, Lévy investigates issues at the heart of our democracy: the special nature of American patriotism, the coexistence of freedom and religion (including the religion of baseball), the prison system, the “return of ideology” and the health of our political institutions, and much more. He revisits and updates Tocqueville’s most important beliefs, such as the dangers posed by “the tyranny of the majority,” explores what Europe and America have to learn from each other, and interprets what he sees with a novelist’s eye and a philosopher’s depth.
Through powerful interview-based portraits across the spectrum of the American people, from prison guards to clergymen, from Norman Mailer to Barack Obama, from Sharon Stone to Richard Holbrooke, Lévy fills his book with a tapestry of American voices–some wise, some shocking. Both the grandeur and the hellish dimensions of American life are unflinchingly explored. And big themes emerge throughout, from the crucial choices America
faces today to the underlying reality that, unlike the “Old World,” America remains the fulfillment of the world’s desire to worship, earn, and live as one wishes–a place, despite all, where inclusion remains not just an ideal but an actual practice.
At a time when Americans are anxious about how the world perceives them and, indeed, keen to make sense of themselves, a brilliant and sympathetic foreign observer has arrived to help us begin a new conversation about the meaning of America.
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评分今天,美国大选早已尘埃落定,新总统奥巴马已经走马上任,许下誓言要带给美国乃至世界人民一个新形象;华尔街遭遇全球化以来的首次经济重挫,雷曼兄弟破产后,整个北美乃至世界经济一蹶不振,颓势愈来愈重;所谓的“新自由主义”理念受到空前质疑,大家再次围绕要凯恩斯还是亚...
评分作者以记者的笔触,描述各种所见所闻,很多又未必是事实,所以让我觉得有凑文字的嫌疑,并且作者虽名义上以追寻托克维尔作为出发的原点,但读来此书,我以为不过是现代营销玩弄的噱头罢了,这样的内容简直是糟蹋托克维尔的声明。作者与哲学家的区别,我觉得是作者描述事物表面...
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