具體描述
Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but seem to miss. 'Community' conveys the image of a warm and comfortable place, like a fireplace at which we warm our hands on a frosty day. Out there, in the street, all sorts of dangers lie in ambush; in here, in the community, we can relax and feel safe. 'Community' stands for the kind of world which we long to inhabit but which is not, regrettably, available to us. Today 'community' is another name for paradise lost - but for a paradise which we still hope to find, as we feverishly search for the roads that may lead us there. But there is a price to be paid for the privilege of being in a community. Community promises security but seems to deprive us of freedom, of the right to be ourselves. Security and freedom are two equally precious and coveted values which could be balanced to some degree, but hardly ever fully reconciled. The tension between security and freedom, and between community and individuality, is unlikely ever to be resolved. We cannot escape the dilemma but we can take stock of the opportunities and the dangers, and at least try to avoid repeating past errors. In this important new book, Zygmunt Bauman takes stock of these opportunities and dangers and, in his distinctive and brilliant fashion, offers a much-needed reappraisal of a concept that has become central to current debates about the nature and future of our societies.
作者簡介
Zygmunt Bauman is a world-renowned Polish sociologist and philosopher, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. He was one of the creators of the concept of “postmodernism”.
目錄資訊
An Overture, or Welcome to Elusive Community
1 The Agony of Tantalus
2 Rerooting the Unrooted
3 Times of Disengagement, or the Great Transformation Mark Two
4 Succession of the Successful
5 Two Sources of Communalism
6 Right to Recognition, Right to Redistribution
7 From Equality to Multiculturalism
8 The Bottom Line: the Ghetto
9 Many Cultures, One Humanity?
Afterword
Notes
Index
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讀後感
用戶評價
我通常不太喜歡讀這種“大部頭”，總覺得裏麵水分太多，但這本書完全是個例外。它的行文節奏把握得恰到好處，張弛有度，讓我在長時間的閱讀中依然能保持高度的專注。作者的文筆極具畫麵感，尤其是在描述那些[插入一個虛構的、生動的場景，比如“工業革命時期工廠內部機器運轉的轟鳴與蒸汽彌漫的景象”]時，簡直像是直接把老電影的場景搬到瞭我的腦海裏。更難得的是，它在保持學術嚴謹性的同時，又充滿瞭人文關懷，那些穿插在專業分析中的對[插入一個虛構的、關於人類情感或社會現象的觀察，比如“普通勞動者在時代洪流中的掙紮與希望”]的細膩捕捉，讓冰冷的理論頓時有瞭溫度。讀這本書就像是和一位學識淵博又風趣幽默的長者圍爐夜話，他既能跟你談天說地，又能一針見血地指齣問題的關鍵所在。我把這本書推薦給瞭幾個朋友，他們都是不同行業的人，但無一例外都被它那種強大的敘事能力和深厚的底蘊所摺服，看來優秀的文字確實具有跨越界限的魔力。
评分這本書的排版和裝幀設計，也體現瞭一種極簡主義的美學，與內容本身所蘊含的強大力量形成瞭有趣的對照。我特彆欣賞作者在處理那些[插入一個虛構的、關於藝術或美學方麵的描述，比如“光影如何影響個體對空間深度的感知”]問題時所展現齣的那種剋製與精準。它沒有使用任何華麗的辭藻去渲染氣氛，而是用最樸素、最精確的語言，去勾勒齣事物的本質輪廓，這種“少即是多”的哲學貫穿始終。閱讀過程中，我常常會停下來，反復琢磨某一個短語或一個圖錶的布局，它們似乎都經過瞭韆錘百煉。這種對細節的偏執，使得整本書的質感都得到瞭極大的提升。它更像是一件精心打磨的工藝品，而不是匆忙趕工的齣版物。對於那些對形式感和內在邏輯有極高要求的讀者來說，這本書的閱讀體驗本身就是一種享受，一種對高品質智力産品的緻敬。
评分這本書簡直是本行傢之作，細節描繪得絲絲入扣，讓人仿佛身臨其境。作者對那個特定領域的研究之深厚，絕非泛泛之談可比，每一個論點都有紮實的案例和數據支撐，讀起來酣暢淋灕，徹底顛覆瞭我過去的一些固有認知。特彆是關於[此處可以插入一個虛構的、具體但非本書內容的領域知識點，比如“十九世紀中期歐洲小鎮的市政管理演變”]的章節，作者居然能找到如此詳盡的曆史文獻來佐證，這種刨根問底的治學態度，實在令人敬佩。它不是那種試圖討好大眾的淺嘗輒止的讀物，它直麵核心的復雜性，並以極其清晰的邏輯將其層層剝開，即便是初涉該領域的人，也能通過作者精心構建的框架，逐步建立起自己的認知體係。讀完後，我感覺自己像經曆瞭一場高強度的智力訓練，對很多看似無關的知識點之間建立瞭奇妙的聯係。這本書的價值在於，它不僅僅是信息的堆砌，更是一種思維方式的引導，它教會我如何去質疑、如何去深入探究事物的本質，而不是滿足於錶麵的解釋。
评分坦白說，這本書的開篇讓我有些措手不及，那種突然拋齣的、看似跳躍的論點，一度讓我懷疑自己是否拿錯書瞭。然而，正是這種“反套路”的結構，構成瞭它最迷人的部分。作者似乎故意設置瞭幾個“認知陷阱”，你必須跟隨著他的思路，不斷地修正自己對既定概念的理解。這本書的結構非常精妙，像一個巨大的多維迷宮，每一個章節都是一個入口，但隻有當你理解瞭前文所有的鋪墊，纔能找到通往下一層邏輯的正確路徑。我花瞭好幾天的時間纔徹底理清瞭作者關於[插入一個虛構的、關於抽象概念的理論，比如“非綫性因果關係模型在復雜係統中的應用邊界”]的核心觀點，那種茅塞頓開的瞬間，比解開一個復雜的數學題還要令人興奮。它挑戰瞭閱讀的惰性，要求讀者主動投入，而不是被動接受。對於那些熱衷於深度思考和結構化分析的讀者來說，這本書無疑是饕餮盛宴，它提供的不是現成的答案，而是更精密的工具箱。
评分這本書最讓我震撼的，是它對[插入一個虛構的、關於未來趨勢或社會影響的預測，比如“全球化背景下地方性知識的消亡與重塑”]所展現齣的驚人前瞻性。它似乎擁有一種能穿透迷霧看到未來的能力，但這種能力並非基於神秘的直覺，而是建立在對當前所有細微變化的敏銳捕捉和科學推演之上。作者並沒有沉湎於對現狀的抱怨或對未來的盲目樂觀，而是提供瞭一套冷靜、務實的分析框架，幫助我們理解即將到來的變化，並思考我們應如何應對。書中的許多觀點，在齣版之初可能顯得有些激進或難以置信，但隨著時間的推移，它們正以驚人的速度成為現實。這讓我深刻體會到，真正有價值的思考，是能夠穿越時間考驗的。這本書不僅是一部知識的載體，更像是一份充滿智慧的“時間膠囊”，它讓我們得以審視過去，清晰地定位現在，並更負責任地構想未來。
评分The ruled lives in a state of permanent insecurity of social standing and uncertainty of the future of one's livelihood and the overwhelming feeling of 'no grip on the present'
评分The ruled lives in a state of permanent insecurity of social standing and uncertainty of the future of one's livelihood and the overwhelming feeling of 'no grip on the present'
评分The ruled lives in a state of permanent insecurity of social standing and uncertainty of the future of one's livelihood and the overwhelming feeling of 'no grip on the present'
评分The ruled lives in a state of permanent insecurity of social standing and uncertainty of the future of one's livelihood and the overwhelming feeling of 'no grip on the present'
评分The ruled lives in a state of permanent insecurity of social standing and uncertainty of the future of one's livelihood and the overwhelming feeling of 'no grip on the present'
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