具体描述
Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but seem to miss. 'Community' conveys the image of a warm and comfortable place, like a fireplace at which we warm our hands on a frosty day. Out there, in the street, all sorts of dangers lie in ambush; in here, in the community, we can relax and feel safe. 'Community' stands for the kind of world which we long to inhabit but which is not, regrettably, available to us. Today 'community' is another name for paradise lost - but for a paradise which we still hope to find, as we feverishly search for the roads that may lead us there. But there is a price to be paid for the privilege of being in a community. Community promises security but seems to deprive us of freedom, of the right to be ourselves. Security and freedom are two equally precious and coveted values which could be balanced to some degree, but hardly ever fully reconciled. The tension between security and freedom, and between community and individuality, is unlikely ever to be resolved. We cannot escape the dilemma but we can take stock of the opportunities and the dangers, and at least try to avoid repeating past errors. In this important new book, Zygmunt Bauman takes stock of these opportunities and dangers and, in his distinctive and brilliant fashion, offers a much-needed reappraisal of a concept that has become central to current debates about the nature and future of our societies.
作者简介
Zygmunt Bauman is a world-renowned Polish sociologist and philosopher, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. He was one of the creators of the concept of “postmodernism”.
目录信息
An Overture, or Welcome to Elusive Community
1 The Agony of Tantalus
2 Rerooting the Unrooted
3 Times of Disengagement, or the Great Transformation Mark Two
4 Succession of the Successful
5 Two Sources of Communalism
6 Right to Recognition, Right to Redistribution
7 From Equality to Multiculturalism
8 The Bottom Line: the Ghetto
9 Many Cultures, One Humanity?
Afterword
Notes
Index
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读后感
用户评价
这本书最让我震撼的，是它对[插入一个虚构的、关于未来趋势或社会影响的预测，比如“全球化背景下地方性知识的消亡与重塑”]所展现出的惊人前瞻性。它似乎拥有一种能穿透迷雾看到未来的能力，但这种能力并非基于神秘的直觉，而是建立在对当前所有细微变化的敏锐捕捉和科学推演之上。作者并没有沉湎于对现状的抱怨或对未来的盲目乐观，而是提供了一套冷静、务实的分析框架，帮助我们理解即将到来的变化，并思考我们应如何应对。书中的许多观点，在出版之初可能显得有些激进或难以置信，但随着时间的推移，它们正以惊人的速度成为现实。这让我深刻体会到，真正有价值的思考，是能够穿越时间考验的。这本书不仅是一部知识的载体，更像是一份充满智慧的“时间胶囊”，它让我们得以审视过去，清晰地定位现在，并更负责任地构想未来。
评分这本书的排版和装帧设计，也体现了一种极简主义的美学，与内容本身所蕴含的强大力量形成了有趣的对照。我特别欣赏作者在处理那些[插入一个虚构的、关于艺术或美学方面的描述，比如“光影如何影响个体对空间深度的感知”]问题时所展现出的那种克制与精准。它没有使用任何华丽的辞藻去渲染气氛，而是用最朴素、最精确的语言，去勾勒出事物的本质轮廓，这种“少即是多”的哲学贯穿始终。阅读过程中，我常常会停下来，反复琢磨某一个短语或一个图表的布局，它们似乎都经过了千锤百炼。这种对细节的偏执，使得整本书的质感都得到了极大的提升。它更像是一件精心打磨的工艺品，而不是匆忙赶工的出版物。对于那些对形式感和内在逻辑有极高要求的读者来说，这本书的阅读体验本身就是一种享受，一种对高品质智力产品的致敬。
评分坦白说，这本书的开篇让我有些措手不及，那种突然抛出的、看似跳跃的论点，一度让我怀疑自己是否拿错书了。然而，正是这种“反套路”的结构，构成了它最迷人的部分。作者似乎故意设置了几个“认知陷阱”，你必须跟随着他的思路，不断地修正自己对既定概念的理解。这本书的结构非常精妙，像一个巨大的多维迷宫，每一个章节都是一个入口，但只有当你理解了前文所有的铺垫，才能找到通往下一层逻辑的正确路径。我花了好几天的时间才彻底理清了作者关于[插入一个虚构的、关于抽象概念的理论，比如“非线性因果关系模型在复杂系统中的应用边界”]的核心观点，那种茅塞顿开的瞬间，比解开一个复杂的数学题还要令人兴奋。它挑战了阅读的惰性，要求读者主动投入，而不是被动接受。对于那些热衷于深度思考和结构化分析的读者来说，这本书无疑是饕餮盛宴，它提供的不是现成的答案，而是更精密的工具箱。
评分我通常不太喜欢读这种“大部头”，总觉得里面水分太多，但这本书完全是个例外。它的行文节奏把握得恰到好处，张弛有度，让我在长时间的阅读中依然能保持高度的专注。作者的文笔极具画面感，尤其是在描述那些[插入一个虚构的、生动的场景，比如“工业革命时期工厂内部机器运转的轰鸣与蒸汽弥漫的景象”]时，简直像是直接把老电影的场景搬到了我的脑海里。更难得的是，它在保持学术严谨性的同时，又充满了人文关怀，那些穿插在专业分析中的对[插入一个虚构的、关于人类情感或社会现象的观察，比如“普通劳动者在时代洪流中的挣扎与希望”]的细腻捕捉，让冰冷的理论顿时有了温度。读这本书就像是和一位学识渊博又风趣幽默的长者围炉夜话，他既能跟你谈天说地，又能一针见血地指出问题的关键所在。我把这本书推荐给了几个朋友，他们都是不同行业的人，但无一例外都被它那种强大的叙事能力和深厚的底蕴所折服，看来优秀的文字确实具有跨越界限的魔力。
评分这本书简直是本行家之作，细节描绘得丝丝入扣，让人仿佛身临其境。作者对那个特定领域的研究之深厚，绝非泛泛之谈可比，每一个论点都有扎实的案例和数据支撑，读起来酣畅淋漓，彻底颠覆了我过去的一些固有认知。特别是关于[此处可以插入一个虚构的、具体但非本书内容的领域知识点，比如“十九世纪中期欧洲小镇的市政管理演变”]的章节，作者居然能找到如此详尽的历史文献来佐证，这种刨根问底的治学态度，实在令人敬佩。它不是那种试图讨好大众的浅尝辄止的读物，它直面核心的复杂性，并以极其清晰的逻辑将其层层剥开，即便是初涉该领域的人，也能通过作者精心构建的框架，逐步建立起自己的认知体系。读完后，我感觉自己像经历了一场高强度的智力训练，对很多看似无关的知识点之间建立了奇妙的联系。这本书的价值在于，它不仅仅是信息的堆砌，更是一种思维方式的引导，它教会我如何去质疑、如何去深入探究事物的本质，而不是满足于表面的解释。
评分The ruled lives in a state of permanent insecurity of social standing and uncertainty of the future of one's livelihood and the overwhelming feeling of 'no grip on the present'
评分The ruled lives in a state of permanent insecurity of social standing and uncertainty of the future of one's livelihood and the overwhelming feeling of 'no grip on the present'
评分The ruled lives in a state of permanent insecurity of social standing and uncertainty of the future of one's livelihood and the overwhelming feeling of 'no grip on the present'
评分The ruled lives in a state of permanent insecurity of social standing and uncertainty of the future of one's livelihood and the overwhelming feeling of 'no grip on the present'
评分The ruled lives in a state of permanent insecurity of social standing and uncertainty of the future of one's livelihood and the overwhelming feeling of 'no grip on the present'
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