Sapiens

DR. YUVAL NOAH HARARI has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in World History. His research focuses on broad historical questions, such as: What is the relation between history and biology? Is there justice in history? Did people become happier as history unfolded?65,000 people have taken his online course, "A Brief History of Humankind," and Sapiens is a huge bestseller in Israel and is being published in more than 20 languages worldwide. In 2012 Harari was awarded the annual Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

出版者:Harvill Secker

作者:Yuval Noah Harari

页数:456

出版时间:2014-9-4

价格:GBP 25.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781846558238

图书标签:人类学历史英文原版History人类进化Anthropology科普社会

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one.

Us.

Homo sapiens.

How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?

In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come?

Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power ... and our future.

读后感

人从哪里来？要到哪里去？这是古今中外哲学家们契而不舍思索的问题。从神创论到达尔文演化论，对第一个问题的解答似已尘埃落定，如今大部分人相信人从猴子演变而来，一小部分人仍坚信人是上帝(神)的独特创造。第二个问题的答案却随着人类社会几何速度的变化发展越发扑朔迷...  

老實講，我不知道該怎麼評述《人類簡史》。本書那飽含當代人優越的惡意寫法，讓學術研究淪為地攤貨，令我讀起來十分不悅，但仔細想想，這本書之所以這麼熱門，接受度還特別地高，不就表示普通人愛的就是這種酸來罵去但毫無建樹的「批判」精神嗎？ 平心而論，它的確有專業的一面...  

尤瓦尔的这本人类简史是一本非常惊艳之作，作者以极其广阔的思路和相当毒辣的笔触，从人类心智发展的角度分析了人类文明的变迁。 开头不久的一个结论就让我对这本书留下了极其深刻的印象——智人优于动物之处，在于智人可以构建共同的“想象”/谎言/神话，而共同神话使得人类...  

《人类简史》已经不算是一本新书了，我也早早就买下，但却读不下去，当时我根本就懒得谈这本书，因为写得非常一般。让我纳闷的是，这本书在坊间的评价极高，和我的观感大相径庭，当时也没太当回事，也许我水平高呢。直到前些日子，万维刚在他的专栏力捧这本书。万维刚是我的偶...  

用户评价

千万，千万不要把你的钱浪费在这本书上。以后再看这种「大历史」、"a brief history of ..."的书就剁手。

没啥太大意思，进化人类学，经济学，传播学的杂俎，纯练听力了

圆滑，然而并没有聪明深刻到可以圆滑的程度。既想表达自己老于世故的幻灭，又要强行卖情怀给读者，逻辑大雾。越往后写越显笔力不逮，储备不足还不用心。

Fantastic read. Not boring at all and presents a coherent story about "human" history.

很少看到有新的观点，但很好地把庞杂的已有观点串联起来，大致梳理了人类历史的脉络