James Vernon is professor of history at UC Berkeley. He is author or editor of several books including, most recently, Hunger: A Modern History and The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (UCP/GAIA, 2011), and is coeditor of the Berkeley Series in British Studies.
发表于2024-11-22
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什么是现代国家?一个国家如何走向现代?现代性理论是对这两个最核心问题的回答。 是否有普遍的现代性标准,还是各民族国家基于本土经验各具特色,正如反现代性理论所认为的那样,“每个社会都能以其独有的方式成为现代社会,现代性经验的种类和数量是无限的”,对现代国家的标...
评分现代性的起源一直是个谜。虽然人所共知英国是最早通过工业革命实现现代化的国家,但它是怎么做到这一点的则众说纷纭,粗略统计下大概不下数十种之多。传统观点强调英格兰率先运用水力和纺织机、蒸汽机的发明而转向能源-技术-资本密集;有些学者则强调英国式自由主义理念与新教...
评分现代性的起源一直是个谜。虽然人所共知英国是最早通过工业革命实现现代化的国家,但它是怎么做到这一点的则众说纷纭,粗略统计下大概不下数十种之多。传统观点强调英格兰率先运用水力和纺织机、蒸汽机的发明而转向能源-技术-资本密集;有些学者则强调英国式自由主义理念与新教...
评分 评分复旦大学历史学系 朱联璧 2017-09-29 10:30 来源:澎湃新闻 2014年,两本名为“远方的陌生人”的著作在美国出版,一本是朱迪斯•利希滕贝格(Judith Lichtenberg)探讨伦理、心理和全球贫困问题的专著(Distant Strangers: Ethics, Psychology, and Global Poverty),另一...
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What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern?
In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in Britain, a place long held to be the crucible of modernity, a new and distinctly modern social condition emerged by the middle of the nineteenth century. Rapid and sustained population growth, combined with increasing mobility of people over greater distances and concentrations of people in cities, created a society of strangers.
Vernon explores how individuals in modern societies adapted to live among strangers by forging more abstract and anonymous economic, social, and political relations, as well as by reanimating the local and the personal.
观点很清晰,但还是想继续追问英国进入现代的原因
评分A new perspective of modernization.
评分A new perspective of modernization.
评分一个不错的看待'现代化'的观点. 传统观点认为工业革命意味着现代化, 这本书说工业革命是结果而不是起因, 是大量人口增长带来的'陌生人社会'从而促进了社会方方面面的(统治/政治制度/经济/人际)改变而现代化的. 作者也在一直强调一点, 虽然系统要显得impersonal, 但是其实很多方面个人都在想办法把个人的charisma, personality之类的传递出去. 我觉得一个有意思的点是, 因为周围陌生人多了, 所以人们更加重视核心家庭成员之间的情感联系.
评分观点很清晰,但还是想继续追问英国进入现代的原因
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