三民網路書店 / 搜尋結果

'Immensely learned and ambitious...seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio... This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.' Literary Review To imagine - to se

'Immensely learned and ambitious...seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio... This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.' Literary Review To imagine - to se

This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, the book addresses many questions of crucial importance to the student of the ancient world: how did the literature of Greece relate to that of its eastern neighbours? What did ancient readers from different cultures think it meant to be human? Who invented the writing of universal history as we know it? How did the Greeks come to divide the world into Greeks and 'barbarians', and what happened when they came to live alongside those 'barbarians' after the conquests of Alexander the Great? In addressing these questions, the book draws on cutting-edge research in comparative literature, postcolonial studies and archive theory.

How did people think about listening in the ancient world, and what evidence do we have of it in practice? The Christian faith came to the illiterate majority in the early Church through their ears. T

How did people think about listening in the ancient world, and what evidence do we have of it in practice? The Christian faith came to the illiterate majority in the early Church through their ears. T

從20萬年前到21世紀，從狩獵採集為生的小團夥演變為人口規模達數十億的全球社會，從原始人類的洞穴和森林到城市化、全球化和數字化的現代世界，享有國際聲譽的歷史學家菲利普·費爾南多-阿梅斯托向我們系統介紹了自人類文明誕生以來，那些影響我們、塑造世界的重大觀念，為我們提供了一部完整的20萬年人類思想演變史。 在這個殘酷而混亂的星球上，只有一個物種有條不紊地發展壯大，這就是我們人類。而推動人類走向勝利的，正是因為我們擁有想像力，能夠重新想像世界，並在現實世界中將其構建出來。思想，正是想像力的產物。 在石器時代，早期智人就發展出我們現在的大部分觀念：區分生死、符號交流、想像物質世界之外的精神存在。進入農業時代，經歷了社會組織觀念的發展，隨之而來的是從酋長到國王的演進，知識分子出現，書寫文字，制定法律，神化王權，建立起工作的倫理、家庭的觀念。 人類進入軸心時代，相繼迎來了摩西、瑣羅亞斯德、孔子和古希臘諸賢，他們不僅提供了創世的觀念，還有救贖的觀念和博愛的觀念，影響廣泛涉及肉體和精神、國家和教會、政治和宗教。而這些觀念預示了我們現在的思考方式，統治了我們的思想和感情達1400年之久。 在信仰的時代之後，文藝復興、宗教改革和科學革命接踵而至，發現世界，也發現人性。18世紀是啟蒙的時代，是訂立現代世界法則的思想大爆發時期，孕育出自由、民主和平等等現代社會的基礎共識。進入19世紀，民族主義、軍國主義、崇尚暴力、種族血統、科學至上、歷史必然性以及對國家的崇拜流行。“進步時代”被鮮血溶解，消失在第一次世界大戰的災難和20世紀的恐怖事件中。 歷史，從未終結。進入21世紀，人工智能是否會讓我們放棄思考？我們該如何面對這個分化、多元、不確定的世界？…… 對於人類文明來說，思想才是真正的主角。思想既是人類攀升的關鍵能力，也是人類生活方式變化和歷史演變的主要驅動力。對於現代人而言，我們現在賴以生活的基本思想工具，都是在上萬年的歷程中發展起來的。如果要真正瞭解人類歷史和我們自己，就要直面思想的演變和觀念的價值。 這部大歷史視角下20萬年人類思想史，將帶你領略人類知識的全貌，重新理解社會，認識我們自己。