The Social Animal

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David Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly, and he is a weekly commentator on PBS NewsHour. He is the author of the bestseller Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense.

出版者:Random House
作者:David Brooks
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页数:448
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出版时间:2011-3-8
价格:USD 27.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781400067602
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With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life.

This is the story of how success happens. It is told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica—how they grow, push forward, are pulled back, fail, and succeed. Distilling a vast array of information into these two vividly realized characters, Brooks illustrates a fundamental new understanding of human nature. A scientific revolution has occurred—we have learned more about the human brain in the last thirty years than we had in the previous three thousand. The unconscious mind, it turns out, is most of the mind—not a dark, vestigial place but a creative and enchanted one, where most of the brain's work gets done. This is the realm of emotions, intuitions, biases, longings, genetic predispositions, personality traits, and social norms: the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made. The natural habitat of The Social Animal.

Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to school; from the "odyssey years" that have come to define young adulthood to the high walls of poverty; from the nature of attachment, love, and commitment, to the nature of effective leadership. He reveals the deeply social aspect of our very minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. Along the way, he demolishes conventional definitions of success while looking toward a culture based on trust and humility.

The Social Animal is a moving and nuanced intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. Impossible to put down, it is an essential book for our time, one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.

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荣格曾经说过,人肯定需要普遍性的理念和信条,以赋予自己的人生以意义,并借以找到自己在世界中的位置。如果他确信这些理念和信条有意义,则能够忍受最惊人的苦难,而如果他在承受住自己的所有不幸之后,不得不承认自己的追求不过是痴人说梦,则他会被压垮。 《社会动物》这...  

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畅销书这个概念似乎也是舶来品。要是听到某书蝉联一些声名显赫的排行榜数周,想必很多人对这本书都有一窥真容的欲望。畅销书也有一些共通的特质,比如很符合当下社会时代背景,引述热门话题、人物;书中抛出的道理都像是从你生活中自然衍生出来的,读者不会有陌生感,看完全书...  

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撇开所有对功利性目的追求,人们学习社会学的最初动力是什么呢? 了解自己,说得更大一点,了解人类。 人类是这么奇怪复杂的生物,自己研究自己,出了一波又一波的理论,一波一波推翻,还是难以解释自己的行为。很少有人能真正分析清楚童年经历对自己的影响,很多时候我们以为...  

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荣格曾经说过,人肯定需要普遍性的理念和信条,以赋予自己的人生以意义,并借以找到自己在世界中的位置。如果他确信这些理念和信条有意义,则能够忍受最惊人的苦难,而如果他在承受住自己的所有不幸之后,不得不承认自己的追求不过是痴人说梦,则他会被压垮。 《社会动物》这...  

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没有读同类书的枯燥感,很轻松的读了下来。

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一直喜欢Brooks的世界观和文笔,此书可以算是他专栏观点的集大成者。可以说此书和我的立意相似,都是在串流行科学以说自己的话,但Brooks的执行要强得多。美中不足的是这一立意本身的肤浅以及Brooks写虚构角色太过刻意。

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作者出发点很好,想写爱弥尔那样的故事,不过个人觉得比较像心灵科学版苏菲的世界… 作者想写的东西也太多,盘子铺得太开,每个点都不是很深入。不过立意还是很好的。 不知道这本书的科学基础到什么程度,要是这本书描述的人过世时的意识和潜意识状态是有依据的,那我YY的和这个还蛮像的…而且和佛学也说得通的感觉…

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终于还是读完了。“our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides with reality” 还是赞的。

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虽然brooks不时让我作呕,但是却也不能不读

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