Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the w...
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things , by Lucretius—a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.
The copying and translation of this ancient book-the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age-fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson. 16 pages full-color illustrations
Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pul...
Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize, for both Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England and The Swerve, the Sapegno Prize, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
When the newly elected bishop of Hildesheim, in the north of Germany, asked to see the diocesan library, he was brought to the armory and shown the pikes and battleaxes hanging on the walls; these, he was informed, were the books with which the rights of the bishopric had been won and must be defended. (查看原文)
——《大转向：世界如何步入现代The Swerve : How the World Became Modern》书评 (美)斯蒂芬·格林布拉特 著 唐建清 译 概述 本书作者写法比较跳跃。 在开头（第一章至第二章），失去主子若望二十三世（被囚禁，被褫夺教皇称号）的庇护，使徒秘书波焦·布拉乔利尼（Poggio Bra...
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0 有用 程少 2014-01-19 06:05:47
虽然对中世纪的描述很多历史学者有诟病，但作为一部向人们介绍文字、思想如何艰难辗转而又绝处逢生的以小出发写大历史的书，确实有感动我。
0 有用 タンポポ 2021-12-29 03:45:55
Read in about 2013. My literature professor recommended to me. It’s a great inspiration and I “converted” myself into an Epicurean.
1 有用 大闸蟹还很远 2017-04-17 01:50:00
前半段五星，后三分之一三星。lucretius的影响力是核心论点，可把文艺复兴和启蒙运动归结到一首诗实在讲不通，只能帮助理解伊拉斯谟，moore和蒙田的共同传统。书好看的部分就是铺垫部分，变革前夜的教廷，人文学者的痴迷和失落，文字和那个时代一样充满可能性。
0 有用 SWX 2024-05-17 13:24:37 北京
非常好看，尤其是在教廷当秘书的几章。看到poggio去英国给亨利五世的叔叔当秘书的段落忽然有点错位感，像是一下子从文艺复兴回退到中世纪了。书里一段落提到从苦逼严格勤奋自律大盾意大利来到放松快乐享乐主义的德意志——几百年的刻板印象反过来了。
0 有用 fushia 2016-08-04 12:21:19
优美 好读