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.
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.
發表於2024-12-22
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本書不止是瞭解安德森個人生活經曆,更是瞭解二戰後美國區域研究(area studies)興起的珍貴記錄。字裏行間閃爍著智慧火花,讀來讓人欲罷不能,書中有許多字句都深深打動我,謹抄錄於下: p.11:“在長大成人的過程中,毋庸諱言我們擁有靈魂與個性,但很少睏惑於身份,身份主要...
評分圖書標籤: 迴憶錄 傳記 本尼迪剋·安德森 人類學 memoir 社會史 英文原版 社會學
真人生偶像。
評分真心看得一愣一愣。我也要這樣進入東南亞!
評分Need a cosmopolitan Brit to divert me at the moment.
評分我恨不得給10顆星!老頭是真正達到瞭從心所欲不逾矩啊。全是段子,可是段子裏也全是一生的卓見。又是一個發現瞭,然後痛心疾首已經真正錯過的老先生。
評分Frog under coconut shell is a strong metaphor indicating the limited horizon formed by one's upbringing,only by efforts of endless endeavor to develop habits of observation and comparison and keeping in mind that our culture is not superior or inferior,could one understand the freedom built by less prejudiced thinking.
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