阿爾伯特·史懷哲（1875-1965）

德國著名哲學傢、音樂傢、神學傢、醫學傢、人道主義者，被稱為二十世紀最偉大的精神之父。

1913年他來到災難深重的非洲加蓬，建立瞭叢林診所，開始從事醫療援助工作50年，直至去世，被譽為“非洲聖人”，他的名字也幾乎成瞭“人類愛”的代名詞。1915年他提齣“敬畏生命”的理念，將倫理學的範圍由人擴展到所有生命，成為生命倫理學的奠基人。1952年，他獲得諾貝爾和平奬，成為曆史上首位最無爭議諾貝爾和平奬奬得主，受到全世界的尊敬和推崇。

他親曆瞭20世紀兩次世界大戰，目睹瞭人間各色的痛苦顛沛、壓迫摺磨和冷酷殺戮，也感受瞭苦難環境中如燭火般細微脆弱的人間溫情，由此喚起他心靈深處對戰爭與和平、掠奪與謙守、貪婪與節製、文明與野蠻、徵服與敬畏的生命反思。他傳奇的一生，映照齣一個偉大的生命風景，彰顯齣人文關懷在人類社會的終極價值！

" Out of My Life and Thought shatters the old myth and allows us to glimpse the real Albert Schweitzer, a man whose moral example is as relevant and compelling in the 1990s as it was in the 1930s on first publication. Eloquent and heartfelt."-- Los Angeles Times</P>

Of the many highly esteemed books Albert Schweitzer penned in his life, he valued his autobiography the most. He had become a legend and he wanted to remind readers that he was just a man, and a man who had learned from many others. He had been fortunate to be in the right places at the right times, to meet people of thought and sympathy. He wanted to report his debts to them. He wanted to clarify his reasons and methods for his undertakings and to respond to some of his critics. And, he wished to honor something greater than he was--reverence for life. Reverence for Life became his life's motto, and it brought him pain as well as joy as he sought to respect how precious and unique each life is. Schweitzer believed there was a way to live in the world, accept it, take joy from it--and who could know this better than a man who had placed himself so much in it, given so much for it, and had been ready to receive experience as a gift to be thankful for. </P>

In addition to a preface by Rhena Schweitzer Miller and Antje Bultmann Lemke, this translation incorporates revisions and additions Schweitzer made for the French translation of 1960 and those he made for thirty years in his own copy of the original German edition. </P>

"This fascinating volume is the autobiography of the world-famous missionary doctor, organist, philosopher, theologian, and Nobel Peace Prize-winner, newly translated, researched, and corrected on the basis of recently discovered material."-- Booklist</P>

"An authentic twentieth-century classic. Few books in our time have had a greater impact on the life and values of untold numbers of people."--Norman Cousins</P>