Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) was self-educated and lived the life of a drifter through the 1930s. After Pearl Harbor, he worked as a longshoreman in San Francisco for twenty-five years. He is the author of ten books, including "The Passionate State of Mind", "The Ordeal of Change", and "The Temper of Our Time". He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983 and died later that year.
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences.Completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today, The True Believer is a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.
《狂热分子》一书作者埃里克•霍弗有着传奇的一生:7岁失明,15岁复明,父母双双早亡,过了近十年流浪零工的生活。通过自学成为伯克利大学高级研究员之后他仍未离开码头,被称为“码头工人哲学家”。 霍弗深感自己生活的世界空前嘈杂,他在此书中摒弃一切言不尽意的浮躁,深...
评分1 文革刚刚开始,有一天郑念从街上走过,看到一个年轻女子跌倒在地,一群红卫兵围住了她。这群人中,有一个在脱她的鞋子,一个在剪她的裤管。挣扎了一阵,后来他们干脆把她的裤子脱掉了,围观的人都笑了起来。她还在挣扎,一个红卫兵掴她的脸。她木木地坐在泥地上,脸埋在双手...
评分从落榜生到“救世主” ——蠹鱼笔记(35) □/徐强 洪秀全于应试落第后,得失心盛,殆成一种神经病。神志昏聩中,自谓曾至天上,蒙天主授以极重要之职。命其毁灭世界上崇拜之偶像,指引迷途,晓谕世人,使人人咸知天主,信仰耶稣,俾耶稣得为世人赎罪。洪秀全既自以为在天主之...
评分《狂热分子》出版于1950年,但有关群众运动的狂热分子雏形早在30年代大萧条、作者霍弗流浪拓荒时期就已经初步形成。但觉得奇怪的是,书里提到了法国大革命的群众运动,纳粹极端政策、犹太复国民族运动、斯大林的清党、晚清太平天国运动,甚至也讲到蒋介石在策动群众运动时的软...
评分从落榜生到“救世主” ——蠹鱼笔记(35) □/徐强 洪秀全于应试落第后,得失心盛,殆成一种神经病。神志昏聩中,自谓曾至天上,蒙天主授以极重要之职。命其毁灭世界上崇拜之偶像,指引迷途,晓谕世人,使人人咸知天主,信仰耶稣,俾耶稣得为世人赎罪。洪秀全既自以为在天主之...
"It is a truism that many who join a rising revolutionary movement are attracted by the prospect of sudden and spectacular change in their conditions of life." 一针见血。
评分還是更喜歡“the crowd”
评分人越无能,越容易受到煽动,越喜欢把自己归类于某个群体获得优越感。
评分跟《乌合之众》一路数的啊,怎么这本完全不红的感觉…… 我还更喜欢这本的说~ 虽然这种感觉上是学术专著但实际上是个人评论的东西并不能作研究用,以及读到最后一节莫名有种整本书都没读懂的感觉(笑cry)。
评分Inspiring, though some claims are unsupportable. The author is quite perspicacious.
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