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.
与庞勒的《乌合之众》相比,霍弗的《狂热分子》似乎更为小众。也许是因为作者传奇的经历,抑或是描述大众的人本身就需要站到一个出离的位置才能写出这样冷静或说是冷酷的书,这本书给我的感觉就像古龙笔下的刀,一闪间砍那一下,不用拔也不用收。作者的观点归纳起来十分简单:...
评分狂热分子一书探讨的是群众运动的共有特征,包括宗教运动、社会运动(革命)和民族主义运动。所有的群众运动都是从同一类人中间吸引最早的追随者,吸引到的都是同一类心灵。 本书探讨的是群众运动的一个阶段——积极阶段。这个阶段主要由“忠实信徒”所控制,他们是一些具有狂...
评分与庞勒的《乌合之众》相比,霍弗的《狂热分子》似乎更为小众。也许是因为作者传奇的经历,抑或是描述大众的人本身就需要站到一个出离的位置才能写出这样冷静或说是冷酷的书,这本书给我的感觉就像古龙笔下的刀,一闪间砍那一下,不用拔也不用收。作者的观点归纳起来十分简单:...
评分“不做奴隶了,我们做什么?”——美国内战结束之后,想象中理应欢呼雀跃的大批南部黑人迅速陷入了大规模的自我怀疑迷茫中。战后相当长一段时间里,自由人们面对新的不平等和压迫,并没有表现出强烈的斗争意识,相反,主张向白人妥协的布克•T•华盛顿,成为了那个时代...
评分群众运动的手段,转述自原书第159页 1.把教条提高到理性之上,这样,个人智慧就没有用武之地了; 2.通过经济集权和故意使生活必需品稀少,让个人产生经济依赖。(中国民众不易造反的原因之一,就在于他们得花最大力气才赚得到一点点维生之资。P52) 3.拥挤的居住或生活空间...
Inspiring, though some claims are unsupportable. The author is quite perspicacious.
评分群主运动没有比这本书在精确了,从简易的理论层面解释了《1984》的世界。
评分還是更喜歡“the crowd”
评分作者如果改行去写段子也肯定成就斐然。不经意间读到的几句吐槽简直是神作。满分!
评分每一句话都想标记下来,比如:There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members.
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