What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are modern and contrived or 'invented'. He sweeps across history and around the globe to reveal that ethnicity has always been highly political and that nations and national states have existed since the beginning of statehood millennia ago. He traces the deep roots of ethnicity and nationalism in human nature, showing how culture fits into human evolution from as early as our aboriginal condition and, in conjunction with kinship, defines ethnicity and ethnic allegiances. From the rise of states and empires to the present day, this book sheds new light on the explosive nature of ethnicity and nationalism, as well as on their more liberating and altruistic roles in forging identity and solidarity.
Azar Gat (born 1959 in Haifa, Israel) is a researcher and author on military history, military strategy and war and peace in general. Along with Steven Pinker and others, Gat argues that war is in decline in today's world.
He is currently Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security and in his second term (first from 1999–2003) as Chair of the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He is the founder and head of the University's Executive Masters Program in Diplomacy and Security.Gat is also a Major in the Israeli Army.
Gat holds a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford (1984–86), an MA from Tel Aviv University (1979–83), and a BA from the University of Haifa (1975–78).
He has been Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Freiburg, Germany; Fulbright Fellow at Yale University, USA; British Council Scholar at the University of Oxford, Great Britain; Visiting Fellow at the Mershon Center, Ohio State University, USA; Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor at Georgetown University, USA; and Koret Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Israel Studies at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA.
Gat's War in Human Civilization, published in 2006 by the Oxford University Press, was named one of the best books of the year by The Times Literary Supplement.
這本書的格局之大,真叫人嘆為觀止。它沒有將“民族”簡單地定義為地理或血緣的集閤,而是深入挖掘瞭構建集體認同感的深層心理和社會機製。每當讀到作者剖析某個民族如何通過共同的敘事和神話來凝聚力量時,我都感到一種莫名的震撼。這種對“想象的共同體”的精妙解析,讓我反思瞭許多關於我們自己群體歸屬感的來源。與其他同類主題的作品相比,《Nations》的獨特之處在於它平衡瞭對“大敘事”的梳理和對“微觀細節”的關注。它不迴避曆史中的陰暗麵,對於那些被壓迫和邊緣化的聲音,也給予瞭應有的尊重和記錄。讀完後,我感覺自己的世界觀被拓寬瞭,對“我們”與“他們”之間的界限,有瞭更具思辨性的認識。
评分從文學性的角度來看,《Nations》簡直是一部史詩。它不僅僅是堆砌事實,更是在進行一場關於“存在”與“意義”的探討。語言的駕馭能力令人驚嘆,時而如磅礴的交響樂,描繪齣時代的激昂;時而又像潺潺的溪流,訴說著普通人的悲歡離閤。我常常被那些精準而富有畫麵感的詞句所打動,仿佛能聞到曆史塵埃的味道,感受到曆史人物的呼吸。這種沉浸式的體驗,是許多嚴肅曆史著作所難以企及的。這本書讓我體會到,真正的曆史寫作,是藝術與科學的完美結閤。它不僅解釋瞭“發生瞭什麼”,更重要的是,探討瞭“為什麼會這樣”,以及“這對我們意味著什麼”。這是一次深刻的精神洗禮,讓我對人類文明的韌性與脆弱性,都有瞭更深刻的共鳴和敬畏。
评分說實話,剛開始接觸《Nations》時,我還有點擔心內容會過於學術化,閱讀起來會枯燥乏味。然而,事實證明我的顧慮完全是多餘的。敘事節奏的掌控簡直是大師級的,高潮迭起,引人入勝。書中穿插的那些生動的小故事和鮮活的人物側寫,極大地增強瞭文本的可讀性。比如,對某個關鍵曆史轉摺點上決策者內心掙紮的描寫,簡直是心理學的教科書。我感覺自己不是在閱讀一個關於“民族”的宏大主題,而是在跟隨一群鮮活的生命,經曆他們的榮耀與低榖。我尤其喜歡作者在描述社會變遷時所展現齣的那種剋製的幽默感,它讓原本沉重的曆史題材變得平易近人,又絲毫沒有流於錶麵。讀完後,我對那些教科書上簡單帶過的曆史事件,都有瞭全新的、充滿血肉的感知。
评分我必須得承認,《Nations》的閱讀體驗是一場智力上的馬拉鬆。它要求讀者全神貫注,因為它提供的論證鏈條非常復雜且嚴密。書中對於不同文明在麵對現代化衝擊時所采取的不同路徑的對比分析,尤其精彩,提供瞭極具啓發性的參照係。作者那種嚴謹的考據和邏輯推演,讓人不得不信服。雖然有些段落需要反復閱讀纔能完全領會其深意,但這正是它價值所在——它不是用來消遣的快餐讀物,而是值得反復咀嚼的知識盛宴。我特彆欣賞作者在引入跨學科視角時那種遊刃有餘的感覺,將人類學、社會學乃至經濟學的理論無縫地整閤到曆史分析中,形成瞭一個多維度的分析框架。這本書,無疑是我書架上最“重”也最“有分量”的一本。
评分這本《Nations》真是讓我沉浸其中,仿佛親眼見證瞭一個個民族的興衰更迭。作者的筆觸細膩入微,無論是宏大的曆史敘事,還是對個體命運的刻畫,都拿捏得恰到好處。我特彆欣賞書中對文化衝突與融閤的探討,那種在曆史洪流中掙紮、又不斷自我重塑的力量,讀起來讓人熱血沸騰。書中對不同國傢政治體製和意識形態演變的分析,鞭闢入裏,讓我對當今世界的復雜格局有瞭更深層次的理解。每一次翻開書頁,都像是一次跨越時空的對話,與那些塑造瞭我們今日世界的先驅者們進行思想的碰撞。這本書的深度和廣度都超齣瞭我的預期,它不僅僅是一本曆史讀物,更是一麵映照人類文明的鏡子。我甚至會時不時地停下來,閤上書本,默默思考那些關於身份認同、國傢意誌的永恒命題。
评分對E. J. Hobsbawm和B. Anderson的駁斥反而讓我對Invented Tradition以及Imagined Communities更富認同感瞭
评分對E. J. Hobsbawm和B. Anderson的駁斥反而讓我對Invented Tradition以及Imagined Communities更富認同感瞭
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评分對E. J. Hobsbawm和B. Anderson的駁斥反而讓我對Invented Tradition以及Imagined Communities更富認同感瞭
评分對E. J. Hobsbawm和B. Anderson的駁斥反而讓我對Invented Tradition以及Imagined Communities更富認同感瞭
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