Terrible Beauty presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. Beginning with four seminal ideas which were introduced in 1900 - the unconscious, the gene, the quantum and Picasso's first paintings in Paris - the book brings together the main areas of thought and juxtaposes the most original and influential ideas of our time in an immensely readable narrative. From the creation of plastic to Norman Mailer, from the discovery of the 'Big Bang' to the Counterculture, from Relativity to Susan Sontag, from Proust to Salman Rushdie, and Henri Bergson to Saul Bellow, the book's range is encyclopedic. We meet in these pages the other twentieth century, the writers, the artists, the scientists and philosophers who were not cowed by the political and military disasters raging around them, and produced some of the most amazing and rewarding ideas by which we live. Terrible Beauty, endlessly stimulating and provocative, affirms that there was much more to the twentieth century than war and genocide.
彼得·沃森
(Peter Watson,1943— )
英国思想史学者,曾任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员,《新社会》杂志副主编,为《泰晤士报》、《纽约时报》、《观察家》等报纸撰写过专栏,以拒绝简化的恢宏思想史作品闻名于西方世界,著有《思想史:从火到弗洛伊德》、《20世纪思想史:从弗洛伊德到互联网》、《德国天才》、《大分离:新旧大陆分道扬镳的历史》等。
犹如一个路线勘察图,能够让人对20世纪的思想变迁有一个详尽而大致准确的理解,实在是了不起..... 或许在某些具体地方不太精确,譬如Rawls,但就其广博而言,尤其涉及文学思想的时候,非常让人钦佩。 中文翻译也还可以。
评分犹如一个路线勘察图,能够让人对20世纪的思想变迁有一个详尽而大致准确的理解,实在是了不起..... 或许在某些具体地方不太精确,譬如Rawls,但就其广博而言,尤其涉及文学思想的时候,非常让人钦佩。 中文翻译也还可以。
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评分巫怀宇/文 人类编写历史最古老的两种方法,是编年史与纪传体。前者以自然年代为断层,后者以人物的生涯为线索。彼得·沃森的《20世纪思想史:从弗洛伊德到互联网》的某些章节大致按照编年顺序将思想文化史上不同领域作共时排列,另一些章节则顺着时间的线索,刻画了某个人或某个...
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