作者:
David Graeber
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David Wengrow
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大卫·温格罗 出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 副标题: A New History of Humanity 出版年: 2021-10-19 页数: 704 定价: GBP 23.56 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780374157357
A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of the state, political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free ...
A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of the state, political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.
Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of the state? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, and was a contributor to Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, and The Baffler. An iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September ...
David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, and was a contributor to Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, and The Baffler. An iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September 2, 2020.
David Wengrow is a professor of comparative archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and has been a visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of three books, including What Makes Civilization?. Wengrow conducts archaeological fieldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East.
Now, we should be clear here: social theory, always, necessarily, involves a bit of simplification. For instance, almost any human action might be said to have a political aspect, an economic aspect, a psycho-sexual aspect and so forth. Social theory is largely a game of make-believe in which we pretend, just for the sake of argument, that there's just one thing going on: essentially, we reduce everything to a cartoon so as to be able to detect patterns that would be otherwise invisible. As a result, all real progress in social science has been rooted in the courage to say things that are, in the final analysis, slightly ridiculous: the work of Karl Marx, Sigmund Frued or Claude Levi-Strauss being only particular salient cases in point. One must simplify the world to discover something new... (查看原文)
第一章总结： 作者的目的是重新书写人类历史，改写目前通行但错误的叙述和叙述逻辑，改写盛行的以不平等 (inequality) 为开端发问的人类历史思考与叙述方式。 目前大历史的主流叙述其实都在一个错误的设问下展开，即探寻不平等的起源是什么 (what is the origin of inequality)...
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10 有用 小龙虾 2022-02-11 02:14:56
读了一个半月，先这么着吧。历史是个大舞台，你方唱罢我登场，唯一重要的是永远不要接受“事实”，永远不要放弃想象。
2 有用 martlet 2024-04-02 12:04:53 美国
拖了一年读得太累了，还是最近几天逼自己不开新书才读完，而且读到下一页就忘了前一页讲什么，琐碎的考古向内容真不是我的菜。整体观点其实很简单，就是推翻western centric的线性思维和农业/技术/规模跟政治组织方式的关联性迷思，提供一点目前subordination society的silver lining。和别的畅销理论相比就是推翻故事后没有提供更入脑的假说，毕竟也是奔着提供nuanced... 拖了一年读得太累了，还是最近几天逼自己不开新书才读完，而且读到下一页就忘了前一页讲什么，琐碎的考古向内容真不是我的菜。整体观点其实很简单，就是推翻western centric的线性思维和农业/技术/规模跟政治组织方式的关联性迷思，提供一点目前subordination society的silver lining。和别的畅销理论相比就是推翻故事后没有提供更入脑的假说，毕竟也是奔着提供nuanced观点来写的。不知道如果Graeber没去世会不会是一样的写法，真想不懂为什么出版商22年会给这本书打那么多广告 (展开)
23 有用 陈别扭 2021-12-17 05:44:55
花了一个月读完，想打999颗星。重新讲述了人类史，证明了我们对社会进化论的想象只是一种迷思。西方现代政治体制绝对不是历史的终结，人类完全有能力想象出真正平等的组织形式并将其付诸实践。
3 有用 letdown 2024-02-23 14:23:53 湖南
非常非常mindfucking，可惜英语太烂了读得很慢。目前读完近半，作者反欧洲中心论、反社会进化论的观点对于自由派也吸引力十足，“溯源”用得相当之多，足见其对思想史的了如指掌。很坦率地毫不掩饰自己的立场，行文间充斥着对于相反观念（同时也是延续至今的主流观点）的大咖的调侃乃至辛辣讽刺。所以这书为啥两年了还没有简体中文引进？
2 有用 椒盐豆豉 2022-09-08 16:48:52 美国
被大家安利又是感兴趣的话题抱以厚望，但是发现这书是真的不适合听，听得东一榔头西一棒槌非常零散。有机会再找文字版读一遍吧。