What Makes Life Worth Living?

出版者:University of California Press

作者:Gordon Mathews

页数:296

出版时间:1996-04-05

价格:USD 26.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780520201330

图书标签:人类学Anthropology美国研究社会学日本研究英文原版青春社会

Here is an original and provocative anthropological approach to the fundamental philosophical question of what makes life worth living. Gordon Mathews considers this perennial issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan. In the course of exploring how people from these two cultures find meaning in their daily lives, he illuminates a vast and intriguing range of ideas about work and love, religion, creativity, and self-realization. Mathews explores these topics by means of the Japanese term ikigai, "that which most makes one's life seem worth living." American English has no equivalent, but ikigai applies not only to Japanese lives but to American lives as well. Ikigai is what, day after day and year after year, each of us most essentially lives for. Through the life stories of those he interviews, Mathews analyzes the ways Japanese and American lives have been affected by social roles and cultural vocabularies. As we approach the end of the century, the author's investigation into how the inhabitants of the world's two largest economic superpowers make sense of their lives brings a vital new understanding to our skeptical age.

用户评价

比较日本和美国的人生意义之文化区别

（gordon之于重庆大厦就相当于孙之于哲学通论吧

教授太可爱了 全世界唯一讲ikigai的课堂

Prof Gordon在尋找一個答案，全文的邏輯線也很清晰，或許是因為鋪的點太大了，以至於每個點的討論都比較淺，最好的答案很簡單，略雞湯，也沒有離開社會-結構-文化的桎梏。

（gordon之于重庆大厦就相当于孙之于哲学通论吧