Intellectuals and Society

出版者:Basic Books

作者:Thomas Sowell

页数:680

出版时间:2012-3-6

价格:GBP 19.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780465025220

具体描述

This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence.

These new chapters show the radically different views of race prevailing among the intelligentsia at the beginning of the twentieth century and at the end-- and yet how each of these opposite views of race had the same dogmatic quality and the same refusal to countenance differing opinions among their contemporaries, much less engage dissenting opinions in serious debate. Moreover, each of these very different views of race produced flourishes of rhetoric and travesties of logic, leading to dire social consequences, though of very different sorts in the two eras.

Other additions to this edition include a critique of John Rawls' conception or justice and a re-examination of the so-called "trickle-down theory" behind "tax cuts for the rich." There are other revisions, from the preface to the final chapter, the latter being extensively rewritten to bring together and highlight the themes of the other chapters, and to make unmistakably clear what Intellectuals and Society is, and is not, seeking to do.

作者简介

Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published in both academic journals and in such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine, and Fortune, and he writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.

读后感

托马斯•索维尔在《知识分子与社会》中开宗名义，对于“知识分子”这一群体的研究首先排除掉了两种人，一种是“弗里德曼”类型的，这一点很容易理解，同为信奉自由市场的经济学家，他的批判意识和批评方法必定首先基于他自身的知识结构与谱系，绝不会做出“背叛师门”的行为...  

本书作者的立场和观点非常明确——就是当知识分子僭越了自身的知识领域后，因其社会影响力，将造成很多不良后果。以下凭记忆重构作者的论证过程并给出笔者个人拙见。 首先是本书中“知识分子”这个概念的论述范围。作者指出，“知识分子”这一概念的核心是“理...  

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主要關於現代西方的intellectual，涉及經濟、越戰、族群等

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