圖書標籤: 曆史 西方曆史 文化研究 文化 history 思想史 哲學 Jacques_Barzun
发表于2024-08-02
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Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500. In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have "Puritans as Democrats," "The Monarch's Revolution," "The Artist Prophet and Jester" -- show the recurrent role of great themes throughout the eras. The triumphs and defeats of five hundred years form an inspiring saga that modifies the current impression of one long tale of oppression by white European males. Women and their deeds are prominent, and freedom (even in sexual matters) is not an invention of the last decades. And when Barzun rates the present not as a culmination but a decline, he is in no way a prophet of doom. Instead, he shows decadence as the creative novelty that will burst forth -- tomorrow or the next day. Only after a lifetime of separate studies covering a broad territory could a writer create with such ease the synthesis displayed in this magnificent volume.
Born in France in 1907, Jacques Barzun came to the United States in 1920.After graduating from Columbia College, he joined the faculty of the university, becoming Seth Low Professor of History and, for a decade, Dean of Faculties and Provost.The author of some thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller From Dawn to Decadence, he received the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he was twice president. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.
這是能夠改變你思維的一本書。
評分結果還是讀完瞭中文版。
評分結果還是讀完瞭中文版。
評分提高藝術知識進行時... 不太喜歡文字的風格……
評分提高藝術知識進行時... 不太喜歡文字的風格……
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評分作者说他为这本书的筹备花了一生的时间,这份辛劳是毋庸置疑的,从马丁•路德掀起的宗教革命,一直到上世纪九十年代,这本书中对于西方文化领域五百年来错综复杂的种种历史和现象,进行了大量的记录和陈述,才完成了这部总厚度达到868页的作品,其中史料的丰富是毋庸置疑的。...
評分本来想做完review再写短评会觉得更可靠些,但是这会正好没事做。我看的是2013年中信出版社的,也是林华翻译,这本书最好的一点就是,作者是用很容易理解的句子写作的,没有为难翻译,所以翻译也没有为难读者,但是仍然有几个地方我个人觉得翻译的不到位,但是完全不影响理解。 ...
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From Dawn to Decadence pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024