The Business of Enlightenment

罗伯特·达恩顿(Robert Darnton），普林斯顿大学教授，哈佛大学图书馆馆长，图书史专家，欧洲文化史专家。曾任牛津大学出版社北美分部理事，发起、参与大量的图书史研究，电子书启蒙运动项目，在图书领域具有丰富的商业、学术背景，他和他的著作曾获多项学术奖和图书奖。在中国，因经典著作《屠猫记》、《启蒙运动的生意》、《拉莫莱特之吻：有关文化史的思考》为读者熟知。

出版者:Belknap Press

作者:Robert Darnton

页数:638

出版时间:1987-1-1

价格:USD 52.50

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780674087866

图书标签:Darnton文化史历史书籍史欧洲思想史思想史Robert美國

A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the "Encyclopedie" is such an occasion. The author explores some fascinating territory in the French genre of "histoire du livre," and at the same time he tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing. This is cultural history on a broad scale, a history of the process of civilization. In tracing the publishing story of Diderot's "Encyclopedie," Darnton uses new sources--the papers of eighteenth-century publishers--that allow him to respond firmly to a set of problems long vexing historians. He shows how the material basis of literature and the technology of its production affected the substance and diffusion of ideas. He fully explores the workings of the literary market place, including the roles of publishers, book dealers, traveling salesmen, and other intermediaries in cultural communication. How publishing functioned as a business, and how it fit into the political as well as the economic systems of prerevolutionary Europe are set forth. The making of books touched on this vast range of activities because books were products of artisanal labor, objects of economic exchange, vehicles of ideas, and elements in political and religious conflict. The ways ideas traveled in early modern Europe, the level of penetration of Enlightenment ideas in the society of the Old Regime, and the connections between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution are brilliantly treated by Darnton. In doing so he unearths a double paradox. It was the upper orders in society rather than the industrial bourgeoisie or the lower classes that first shook off archaic beliefs and took up Enlightenment ideas. And the state, which initially had suppressed those ideas, ultimately came to favor them. Yet at this high point in the diffusion and legitimation of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution erupted, destroying the social and political order in which the Enlightenment had flourished. Never again will the contours of the Enlightenment be drawn without reference to this work. Darnton has written an indispensable book for historians of modern Europe.

读后感

作为史书，比《中国出版业发展史》这样的教材体强多了。 作为商战实录，比《李嘉诚传》和“商场小说”强多了。 在图书馆苦苦折腾两个下午，最后觉得没白耗费脑细胞。但由此衍生出几个外行人关于出版业的想法： 1。从《幻灭》中可以得知，至少在巴尔扎克时代，书都不是定价，...  

《百科全书》的出版发行一开始就是与商业行为紧密联系在一起的，众多的商人出于牟利的目的，或者还有人同时对启蒙运动本身怀有兴趣，他们既是知识的热心读者，同时也是出版商印刷商，数个角色兼于一身，他们嗅出了《百科全书》因其巨大的启蒙性知识性所带来的巨大商机，他们赚...  

兜售一种观念，也时候会被送上火刑柱给烧死；有时候却成了桩大发其财的生意。美国史学家罗伯特•达恩顿的这部讲述《百科全书》出版史的著作——《启蒙运动的生意》，所要谈的无疑是后者。在达恩顿笔下，《百科全书》的故事，与其说是一种启蒙思想史，不如说是“一种商人的思...  

兜售一种观念，也时候会被送上火刑柱给烧死；有时候却成了桩大发其财的生意。美国史学家罗伯特•达恩顿的这部讲述《百科全书》出版史的著作——《启蒙运动的生意》，所要谈的无疑是后者。在达恩顿笔下，《百科全书》的故事，与其说是一种启蒙思想史，不如说是“一种商人的思...  

标题很有意思，但内容更加有意思，我以前都不知道原来历史还可以这样观察与研究。 狄德罗编辑《百科全书》是耳熟能详的书。此书对人类的进步所起的作用已经有着大量的了解。可是此书却从另一个方面，即此书的出版、印刷、发行入手，让我们了解到此书的另一面历史。 我读完之后...  

用户评价

It is essentially a book of publishing history, not a book history. It focuses on the publisher, publishing, and diffusion of Encyclopedie between 1775 and 1800. I was surprised by (and envy) the abundant material (various account books, letters, etc) used by the author. An important book full of details. Better to know French when reading...

It is essentially a book of publishing history, not a book history. It focuses on the publisher, publishing, and diffusion of Encyclopedie between 1775 and 1800. I was surprised by (and envy) the abundant material (various account books, letters, etc) used by the author. An important book full of details. Better to know French when reading...

It is essentially a book of publishing history, not a book history. It focuses on the publisher, publishing, and diffusion of Encyclopedie between 1775 and 1800. I was surprised by (and envy) the abundant material (various account books, letters, etc) used by the author. An important book full of details. Better to know French when reading...

It is essentially a book of publishing history, not a book history. It focuses on the publisher, publishing, and diffusion of Encyclopedie between 1775 and 1800. I was surprised by (and envy) the abundant material (various account books, letters, etc) used by the author. An important book full of details. Better to know French when reading...

It is essentially a book of publishing history, not a book history. It focuses on the publisher, publishing, and diffusion of Encyclopedie between 1775 and 1800. I was surprised by (and envy) the abundant material (various account books, letters, etc) used by the author. An important book full of details. Better to know French when reading...