Sapiens

'I encourage all of us, whatever our beliefs, to question the basic narratives of our world, to connect past developments with present concerns, and not to be afraid of controversial issues.' Dr Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in World History. His research focuses on broad 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 signed up to his online course, A Brief History of Humankind. Sapiens is an international bestseller and is being published in more than 30 languages worldwide. In 2012 Harari was awarded the annual Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines.

出版者:Vintage

作者:Yuval Noah Harari

页数:512

出版时间:2015-4

价格:GBP 8.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780099590088

图书标签:历史人类学history英文原版英语科普社会学/人类学社会学

This is The Sunday Times Bestseller. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going. Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankind's extraordinary history - from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age - and our journey from insignificant apes to rulers of the world. "It tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language. You will love it!" (Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel).

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...

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用户评价

Culture is a parasite; agriculture is a trap; ideologies are just modern religions; consumerism’s the heaven promised by capitalism as a religion. And at the end of the day human society is operating based on myths instead of facts.

看完了，末章催生了一股压抑与难受，难以排解。

Culture is a parasite; agriculture is a trap; ideologies are just modern religions; consumerism’s the heaven promised by capitalism as a religion. And at the end of the day human society is operating based on myths instead of facts.

中英文兩本一起讀的，從春節放假開始，到後來上班很忙一星期只能讀幾頁，於是前後花了差不多兩個月才讀完。信息量巨大，在作者淺顯的敘述和簡單的例子中終於重新認識和理解了中學歷史課上怎麼都聽不懂的人類的過去，也結合了自己親身經歷的這三十年來的種種，陷入無限的哲學思考和心理學反思中。

The Animal that Became a God.