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.
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.
作者说他为这本书的筹备花了一生的时间,这份辛劳是毋庸置疑的,从马丁•路德掀起的宗教革命,一直到上世纪九十年代,这本书中对于西方文化领域五百年来错综复杂的种种历史和现象,进行了大量的记录和陈述,才完成了这部总厚度达到868页的作品,其中史料的丰富是毋庸置疑的。...
评分重读《从黎明到衰落-西方文化生活500年》 时间真快,五年前读过这本厚厚的文化史巨著。当时叹为观止。最近开始重读,又有很多启发。 “文艺复兴时期大量的论文说明了这场文化运动的性质。人们通常以为它是由几个天才发起的,有些崇拜者、赞助人和能言善辩的支持者参加,他们...
评分重读《从黎明到衰落-西方文化生活500年》 时间真快,五年前读过这本厚厚的文化史巨著。当时叹为观止。最近开始重读,又有很多启发。 “文艺复兴时期大量的论文说明了这场文化运动的性质。人们通常以为它是由几个天才发起的,有些崇拜者、赞助人和能言善辩的支持者参加,他们...
评分如何由一件平常事演变成一场革命 大概的路线: 消息传来(某人说了什么话,做了什么事)- ------消息迅即传开(因为它与当时的形势恰好相合,或者同人们意识深处的某种情绪吻合) ------气氛紧张(人们开始互相探问真情和这件事的含义 ------时间感发生变化,变快(本来遥远...
评分老爷子活到104。93岁时出版了这套800页涵盖西方社会500年的书。没有长时间的积累和思考,谁也不敢写这么一个大题目。看的时候就在想,这书才该叫“人类群星闪耀时”。太多的人名、太多的主义。我最大的一个感触是东西方都经历了类似的占据社会超长时间的一元思想/信仰在崩塌后...
中译去死
评分提高艺术知识进行时... 不太喜欢文字的风格……
评分这是能够改变你思维的一本书。
评分Very easy to read. 3块美金买来太划算了!!!
评分绝无陈词滥调
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 onlinetoolsland.com All Rights Reserved. 本本书屋 版权所有