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

这本书给我的观感，一言以蔽之，即为“标新立异”。作者结合了自己所涉猎过的许多方面，试图从一个全新的广阔的角度来解读人类史，但由于他的涉猎广而不精，以至于我不得不说，他几乎在任何一方面都做得不好。仅就几个我比较了解的领域而言，作为一个半外行，我仍然能够挑出他...  

文/曼佳 最近一直被人推荐《人类简史》这本书，一个70后的以色列历史学家写的风靡全球的著作。全书讲的是人类的故事，从历史又是从哲学的角度，讲述人从生物学的起源是什么样的，从宇宙的哪里来，要到未来的哪里去的故事，这样的书，是要很安静的环境和很安静的心才能好好读完...  

如果说有一本书，不到五百页，没有一堆令人晕头转向的年份、人名、地名、称号，就能涵盖了人类如何崛起、影响现代生活甚巨的资本主义、一神教、自由人文主义、基因工程如何兴盛的人类历史重大脉络……那就是这本神奇的、同时摆放在“历史”和“畅销”分类里的「人类简史」。 ...  

用户评价

后面部分有点水。说共产主义是宗教的部分中文版应该删掉了？

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

前面还可以，后面作者价值观输出太多

本书的高潮在Cognitive Revolution，之后关于农业革命的部分夹杂太多私货，关于经济、宗教和意识形态的观点并不新颖，但是作者文笔不错，比较好的博采众长。最后的1/3部分略冗长。

作者文笔不错, 读起来很生动. 对我来讲非常mindblowing的几个观点: 智人与其他动物最基本的区别在于其想象力-能构建和表达不存在/抽象的东西; 若多种智人都生存下来, 现代社会将会是什么样子; 农业革命是个人幸福感的倒退, 却促进了群体的发展; 对于早期文字系统的发展, 文字本身的出现只是其中一环, 更重要的是文字信息的分类记录系统; 种族歧视是历史偶然在社会, 经济, 政治和文化的恶性循环中产生的. 还是第一章讲智人起源的部分最powerful.