Born in France in 1907, Jacques Barzun came to the United States in 1920.After graduating from Columbia College, he joined the faculty of the university, becoming Seth Low Professor of History and, for a decade, Dean of Faculties and Provost.The author of some thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller From Dawn to Decadence, he received the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he was twice president. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.
发表于2024-05-13
From Dawn to Decadence 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
我在书店的历史类书架前闲逛,无意间发现了一本差点错过的大好书。这本书叫《从黎明到衰落–西方文化生活五百年,1500年至今》(From Dawn to Decadence),作者是Jacques Barzun,曾经荣获2000年美国国家图书奖。仅仅读了它的序言,我就被它深深吸引住了。书中先引用了威廉-詹...
评分孙骁骥/文 当我们阅读历史的时候,或许并不清楚自己所读到底为何物。《韦伯斯特字典》对于“history”词条的解释是:“关于某人某事的一系列过去的事件。”但这个解读本身就难以让人信服。浩如烟海的事件不过充当了历史的素材,或者叫历史的草稿,而最终成稿终究需要史家动笔...
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评分根据我从小到大读历史书而得来的经验,我认为了解历史能让我认识到人类最独特的优点,也能展现我们致命的缺点。因此,对我来说读史书除了可以学习新的知识,也能让我们自我反省,并且帮助我们探索到自己的上线,能力,还有可能造成的人为灾害。由于我已经读过无数本中国的史书...
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Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500. In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have "Puritans as Democrats," "The Monarch's Revolution," "The Artist Prophet and Jester" -- show the recurrent role of great themes throughout the eras. The triumphs and defeats of five hundred years form an inspiring saga that modifies the current impression of one long tale of oppression by white European males. Women and their deeds are prominent, and freedom (even in sexual matters) is not an invention of the last decades. And when Barzun rates the present not as a culmination but a decline, he is in no way a prophet of doom. Instead, he shows decadence as the creative novelty that will burst forth -- tomorrow or the next day. Only after a lifetime of separate studies covering a broad territory could a writer create with such ease the synthesis displayed in this magnificent volume.
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From Dawn to Decadence 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书