出版時間:2009-8 出版社:外語教學與研究出版社 作者:林語堂 頁數(shù):524
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《美國的智慧》是一本通俗哲學著作,由國學大師林語堂腳踏東西文化,揮毫潑墨而成,“中國人應該向美國人學習什么?”全書內(nèi)容涉及到社會生活的方方面面:生活、生命、情感、自由、幸福、自然、宗教、幽默與諷刺、愛情與婚姻、戰(zhàn)爭與和平,等等。林語堂提倡“以自我為中心,以閑適為格調(diào)”的小品文創(chuàng)作;在本書中,林先生揮毫潑墨,收放自如,真正體現(xiàn)了這一風格。引用了三百余位古今中外思想家的作品,如拉爾夫·沃爾多·愛默生、本杰明·富蘭克林、戴維·格雷森、奧利弗·溫德爾·霍姆茲、托馬斯·杰弗遜等等,閱讀本書,猶如與大師面對面交談,心靈會得到一次凈化和升華。
作者簡介
林語堂,1895年10月10日生于福建漳州,乳名和樂,名玉堂,后改語堂。22歲獲上海圣約翰大學學士學位,27歲獲美國哈佛大學比較文學碩士學位,29歲獲德國萊比錫大學語言學博士學位,同年回國,先后執(zhí)教于北京大學。北京師范大學,廈門大學和上海東吳大學,1936年后居住美國,此后主要用英文寫作,1966年定居臺灣,1967年受聘為香港中文大學研究教授。1975年榮任國際筆會副會長。1976年3月26日病逝于香港。葬于臺北陽明山故居。林語堂用英文創(chuàng)作和翻譯的一系列經(jīng)典作品影響深遠,奠定了他在國際文壇上的重要地位。代表作有小說《京華煙云》、《啼笑皆非》,散文雜文《吾國與吾民》、《生活的藝術(shù)》、傳記《蘇東坡傳》、《武則天傳》,譯著《老子的智慧》、《浮生六記》等。
書籍目錄
FOREWORD
PREFACE ON A SUNDAY MORNING
Chapter One THE WISDOM OF LIVING
Chapter Two COUNSEL FOR LIVING
Chapter Three OUR ANIMAL HERITAGE
Chapter Four THE RHYTHM OF LIFE
Chapter Five MAN AS SENTIMENT
Chapter Six NEW ENGLIAND INTERLUDE
Chapter Seven LIFE
Chapter Eight LIBERTY
Chapter Nine THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Chapter Ten THE ARTS OF LIVING.
章節(jié)摘錄
I see as many women lose at the roulette table as men, the sixth sense beingthe inability to tell clearly why you want to do a thing when you do it. I believewomen think and feel on the whole very much as men do, that mentally thereis much less sex difference than physically, although some women like toencourage the men to think otherwise. So if the question is asked, "Whereis woman in this book?" the answer is that she is everywhere, sharing allmen's problems of politics and religion and love. James Branch Cabell was for"domnei," or woman worship, for putting woman on a pedestal——a dangerousattitude, but then he was also for hero worship of men, for showing man inknight's armor riding on a high horse. He was speaking about romance, aboutwomen in art and literature. In real life, any woman would be grateful for beingaccepted as an ordinary human being, like any man, perhaps at most slightlyraised on a two-inch heel, not much higher, and certainly not on a pedestal. Itjust won't work. Woman shares all man's foibles, all man's pettiness and vanity,as she shares all his hopes and ambitions. Woman is venal; woman is vain;woman is realistic. What do we take her for? An angel? The falsehood lies inthe implication that man isn't all these things.E. B. white, angered by the patronizing inanities of a man writing inHarper's on "Getting Along with Women," wrote a reply in which he succeededin the rare accomplishment of treating woman as man, to the point where thequestion of getting along with women does not even come up. My impressionis that he merely likes them a lot. Such a point of view, I believe, is reallycivilized. In addition, E. B. White is natural here; he just pours himself out, andthe result is delightful.
媒體關(guān)注與評論
讀林先生的書使人得到很大啟發(fā)。我非常感激他,因為他的書使我大開眼界。只有一位優(yōu)秀的中國人才能這樣坦誠、信實而又毫不偏頗地論述他的同胞?!都~約時報》星期日書評
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