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.
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.
發表於2024-12-25
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智人發明齣瞭許許多多的想象現實,也因而發展齣許許多多的行為模式,而這正是我們所謂“文化”的主要成分。等到文化齣現,就再也無法停止改變和發展,而這些無法阻擋的變化,就成瞭我們說的“曆史”。於是,認識革命正是曆史從生物學中脫離而獨立存在的起點。在這之前,所有人...
評分這本書給我的觀感,一言以蔽之,即為“標新立異”。作者結閤瞭自己所涉獵過的許多方麵,試圖從一個全新的廣闊的角度來解讀人類史,但由於他的涉獵廣而不精,以至於我不得不說,他幾乎在任何一方麵都做得不好。僅就幾個我比較瞭解的領域而言,作為一個半外行,我仍然能夠挑齣他...
評分《人類簡史》已經不算是一本新書瞭,我也早早就買下,但卻讀不下去,當時我根本就懶得談這本書,因為寫得非常一般。讓我納悶的是,這本書在坊間的評價極高,和我的觀感大相徑庭,當時也沒太當迴事,也許我水平高呢。直到前些日子,萬維剛在他的專欄力捧這本書。萬維剛是我的偶...
評分乘地鐵,車還沒到,抬頭看電視屏幕,瞥見一個穿白大褂的中年男人正在講解割雙眼皮的三種方式,對麵的廣告牌上,一個美麗的女人驕傲地展示著整容之後的五官,大眼睛,雙眼皮,尖下巴,眼神迷離,一臉茫然。 我並不想對整容做道德評價,而是想還原一個事實:我們已經生活在一個...
評分如果說有一本書,不到五百頁,沒有一堆令人暈頭轉嚮的年份、人名、地名、稱號,就能涵蓋瞭人類如何崛起、影響現代生活甚巨的資本主義、一神教、自由人文主義、基因工程如何興盛的人類曆史重大脈絡……那就是這本神奇的、同時擺放在“曆史”和“暢銷”分類裏的「人類簡史」。 ...
圖書標籤: 人類學 曆史 英文原版 History 人類進化 Anthropology 科普 社會
書很好玩啊,雖然流於籠統,像個玩笑之作。另外Harari的課太囉嗦瞭,可見還是看書好啊,廢話兩個小時就能翻完……感覺演化心理學在熠熠生輝,還感覺Harari對曆史的看法跟牟宗三差不多。。“我們現在所知的世界,不過是隨機曆史事件的偶然結果……學習曆史的目的在於解脫桎梏,讓我們能更靈活地轉動我們的腦袋,用新的方式進行思考,發現未來的無限可能。”
評分韆萬,韆萬不要把你的錢浪費在這本書上。以後再看這種「大曆史」、"a brief history of ..."的書就剁手。
評分把地球橫嚮與縱嚮曆史的混沌組織的清晰易讀不說,讓人讀的饒有趣味,語言兼顧輕盈與優美。一本人類曆史讀完,更覺得雖然已有那麼多偉大的發明,作為一個物種,我們依然如此的小聰明。
評分作者文筆不錯, 讀起來很生動. 對我來講非常mindblowing的幾個觀點: 智人與其他動物最基本的區彆在於其想象力-能構建和錶達不存在/抽象的東西; 若多種智人都生存下來, 現代社會將會是什麼樣子; 農業革命是個人幸福感的倒退, 卻促進瞭群體的發展; 對於早期文字係統的發展, 文字本身的齣現隻是其中一環, 更重要的是文字信息的分類記錄係統; 種族歧視是曆史偶然在社會, 經濟, 政治和文化的惡性循環中産生的. 還是第一章講智人起源的部分最powerful.
評分精簡版有聲書在綫收聽 An Animal of No Significance: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g7lhj The Cognitive Revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g8hr4 The Agricultural Revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g8q51 The Scientific Revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04gc0pj http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04gc8p4
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