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发表于2024-11-10
The Retreat of Western Liberalism pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of American economic and geopolitical decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil.
In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of western hegemony and the crisis of democratic liberalism - of which Donald Trump and his European counterparts are not the cause, but a symptom. Luce argues that we are on a menacing trajectory brought about by ignorance of what it took to build the West, arrogance towards society's losers, and complacency about our system's durability - attitudes that have been emerging since the fall of the Berlin Wall, treated by the West as an absolute triumph over the East. We cannot move forward without a clear diagnosis of what has gone wrong. Luce contrasts Western democratic and economic ideals, which rest on an assumption of linear progress, with more cyclical views of economic strength - symbolized by the nineteenth-century fall and present-day rise of the Chinese and Indian economies - and with the dawn of a new multipolar age.
Combining on-the-ground reporting with intelligent synthesis of the vast literature already available, Luce offers a detailed projection of the consequences of the Trump administration and a forward-thinking analysis of what those who believe in enlightenment values must do to defend them from the multiple onslaughts they face in the coming years.
Edward Luce is a graduate from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He worked as a speech writer for the treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, worked as the South Asia bureau chief for the Financial Times and is based in Washington DC as the Financial Times Washington columnist and commentator.
Problems abound, no clear solution in sight. We do live in interesting times.
评分文中通过川普当选展开讨论,西方民主自由是否走入民粹,今后的自由之路要怎么走。由于是结合时事,所以理解作者讲的事情并不难。 西方的精英们(white elite),也就是trump的攻击对象,对普遍民主自由的发展多少带着悲观,觉得民粹,排外,会把社会带入黑暗时代。我不知道这一天多久会到来,但是作者的一些观点我还是赞同的。 他觉得当今社会大多数人觉得自己没有被尊重,穷人活在狗咬狗的恶性竞争中,大家对未来都充满悲观。原以为这是hard模式下我们的感受,作者的描述让我感觉到这其实是一个普遍的问题。 作者并没有给出一个方法,但是提出了很好的问题,就如同书名一样。 很喜欢书中的一句话 the search for Eden always ends in tears 看来作者还是悲观的
评分我再也不要读政治类的了,因为不管怎么深刻,还是事实的堆砌和对过往的分析。还是读哲学去吧
评分需要一些背景知识和术语的理解才能读得更深入些。
评分需要一些背景知识和术语的理解才能读得更深入些。
The retreat of western liberalism是Edward在特朗普当选、英国退欧等一系列时间后对这个时代发出无奈的叹息。 “愚蠢的人类,你们还是没有从历史里吸取教训!!” (自动脑补作者的内心) 作为2017年6月刚出版的书,书里提到的很多人物和事件现在在搜索引擎上还有跟进的新闻...
评分The retreat of western liberalism是Edward在特朗普当选、英国退欧等一系列时间后对这个时代发出无奈的叹息。 “愚蠢的人类,你们还是没有从历史里吸取教训!!” (自动脑补作者的内心) 作为2017年6月刚出版的书,书里提到的很多人物和事件现在在搜索引擎上还有跟进的新闻...
评分The retreat of western liberalism是Edward在特朗普当选、英国退欧等一系列时间后对这个时代发出无奈的叹息。 “愚蠢的人类,你们还是没有从历史里吸取教训!!” (自动脑补作者的内心) 作为2017年6月刚出版的书,书里提到的很多人物和事件现在在搜索引擎上还有跟进的新闻...
评分The retreat of western liberalism是Edward在特朗普当选、英国退欧等一系列时间后对这个时代发出无奈的叹息。 “愚蠢的人类,你们还是没有从历史里吸取教训!!” (自动脑补作者的内心) 作为2017年6月刚出版的书,书里提到的很多人物和事件现在在搜索引擎上还有跟进的新闻...
评分The retreat of western liberalism是Edward在特朗普当选、英国退欧等一系列时间后对这个时代发出无奈的叹息。 “愚蠢的人类,你们还是没有从历史里吸取教训!!” (自动脑补作者的内心) 作为2017年6月刚出版的书,书里提到的很多人物和事件现在在搜索引擎上还有跟进的新闻...
The Retreat of Western Liberalism pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024