陈晓林先生也许大家并不熟悉,但是这两部著作您却应该要懂。
这两部西方的重要著作,当年就是靠陈先生翻译后才惠及中文世界的读者。
顺便介绍两部巨著:
(一)《历史研究》
这是英国历史学家阿诺尔德·约瑟·汤恩比(Arnold Joseph Toynbee, 1889–1975)的作品。
汤恩比对历史有独到眼光。他的十二冊巨著《历史研究》(A Study of History)以全球化的视野看待世界主要民族文明的兴起与衰落,被誉为“现代学者最伟大的成就”。
(二)《西方的没落》
这是德国历史学家史宾格勒的作品。wikipedia如此介绍这个人:
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (1880–1936) was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book
The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes) in which he puts forth a cyclical theory of the rise and decline of civilizations. After Decline was published in 1918, Spengler produced his Prussianism and Socialism in 1920, in which he argued for an organic version of socialism and authoritarianism. He wrote extensively throughout World War I and the interwar period, and supported German hegemony in Europe. The National Socialists held Spengler as an intellectual precursor. But he was ostracised after 1933 for his pessimism about Germany and Europe's future, his refusal to support Nazi ideas of racial superiority, and his critical work the Hour of Decision.
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