A Life Beyond Boundaries

Benedict Anderson was Aaron L. Binenkorp Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He was editor of the journal Indonesia and author of Java in a Time of Revolution, The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World and Imagined Communities.

出版者:Verso

作者:Benedict Anderson

页数:224

出版时间:2016-4-26

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781784784560

图书标签:回忆录传记本尼迪克·安德森人类学memoir社会史英文原版社会学

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities

Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Commu-nities has changed the way we think about the reason why people live, die and kill in the name of nation-hood.

Born in China, Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. After field work in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, he was banned from Suharto’s Indonesia for disputing the legitimacy of the 1965 coup. In his memoir, he brings to life the intellectual formation of a life spent open to the world, resisting the easy comforts of imagined homes: the joys of learning languages; the importance of field work; the influence of the New Left upon global think-ing; and the satisfactions of teaching.

读后感

此书所写的“椰壳碗”形同我们常说的“井底之蛙”的井，都是在描述一种囿于原地、不思进取的状态的。相对的，作者本尼迪克特·安德森于书中恰恰描写的就是他走出“椰壳碗”之外，所遇见的更加广阔的人生，不仅是地域，还有意识形态。 作者自叙平生经历，有几分回忆录的样子，但...  

- 在那些日子里，每场电影放映之后观众都必须立正站好，伴随着国歌响起，银幕上机会出现令人同情的年齿尚幼的伊丽莎白女王骑在马背上的彩色图像。这真是种煎熬。【27】 - 【弗朗哥统治下的西班牙】我们曾身着普通的英国男士泳裤去北部海岸游泳。回到岸上擦干身体的时候，两名西...  

用户评价

終於讀了。多謝友鄰贈書！任性吐槽也好，循循善誘也好，說到底這是一段太有時代感的人生。區域研究早已今非昔比。

"...How to use a language to make things so remote also frightening, tragic and understandable."

感觉日文版标题“ヤシガラ椀の外へ”更有意境——“快到碗里来！”“你才到碗里去！”英日两版封面都选了一只从碗里跳出的蛤，安德森真是续意盎然

Anderson迷妹的基本素养

真人生偶像。