具體描述
In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers his granddaughter's questions about how the world works, how it got to be as it is, what it could be, and where she fits in. Lily's enquiries range from the intimate, personal and moral to the political, social and philosophical. What is the nature of good and evil? What is religion? How can I be truly me? Is right and wrong the same wherever you are? What is beauty? Does there have to be torture? Does money matter? Is knowledge always good? What is progress? What is truth? What is sex? Is democracy a good idea? These are just a few of the questions. In responding to Lily's challenging problems, Alan Macfarlane, from a lifetime's experience as a historian, anthropologist and teacher, ranges through history and across the world's cultures. Her questions are timeless. His answers add up to a classic.
著者簡介
艾倫·麥剋法蘭是英國著名社會人類學傢，劍橋大學社會人類學教授，國王學院院士和不列顛學術院院士，著名作傢，著名電視節目製作人。著述凡16種，包括《英國個人主義的起源》（商務印書館即將齣版中譯本）、《玻璃的世界》(商務印書館已齣版中譯本，2003)、《都鐸和斯圖亞特王朝英格蘭的巫術》、《現代世界之謎》、《資本主義文化》、《和平的野蠻戰爭》等。
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讀後感
商务版，一英国剑桥professor的，翻译文笔亦好，不忍释卷．对理解中西文化差异，理解英格兰深厚的人文精神传统，理解中国等东方文明的不足，大有益处，年轻人读起来也很有趣．
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Love comes from self-sacrifice and tolerance.It comes from not expecting too much, not reliving in our children our failures and insufficiencies.【進度1/3】
评分Candid truth about how he thinks the world works, explaining to his granddaughter in a humorous and witty way. This copy of mine was gifted by the author himself whom and whose wife Derek and i had the pleasure to meet and spend time with.
评分Nations are constructed and deconstructed. There is nothing or given about them.They are imagined, invented concepts and there is no British nation, no English nation,except in our imagination.
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