传记
维特根斯坦传 豆瓣
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
9.3 (101 个评分) 作者: [英国] 瑞·蒙克 译者: 王宇光 浙江大学出版社 2011 - 6
内容简介:
维特根斯坦,20世纪最重要的哲学家之一,语言哲学的奠基人。
本书是迄今为止最具权威性的维特根斯坦传记,自出版以来广受赞誉。
本书以时间为线索,运用大量生动、翔实的第一手资料描绘维特根斯坦独特的精神世界以及传奇的一生,堪称一流的思想传记。
重寻胡适历程 豆瓣
作者: 余英时 三辉图书/上海三联书店 2012 - 1
在胡适个人生命史上的每一阶段,一向都存在着一些或大或小的疑点,他的博士学位问題,他的西洋哲学素养,他对毛泽东的影响,他和蒋介石的关系……随着《胡适日记全集》的出版,其中有些问題已能够获得比较明确的解答。
本书根据《胡适日记全集》的內在线索,探讨胡适在各个阶段与中国现代史进程的关联,并就上述引起议论的疑点,择其较有关系者予以澄清,让胡适自己说话,还胡适一个原来面貌。
陈寅恪的最后20年 豆瓣
8.2 (28 个评分) 作者: 陆键东 生活·读书·新知三联书店 1995
本书根据大量档案文献和第一手的采访资料,详尽描绘了陈寅恪生命最后二十年的坎坷经历,披露了许多鲜为人知的史实。本书为读者打开了一段尘封的历史,从陈寅恪的生存状态和人际交往入手,探索了他的内心世界,并以此分析、诠释了陈寅恪晚年作品的内涵,提出了不少颇有说服力的见解。
陳寅恪的最後二十年 豆瓣
9.3 (6 个评分) 作者: 陸鍵東 聯經出版公司 1997 - 11
從1949至1969年,陳寅恪在中國共產黨統治下渡過他生命中最後的二十年,他晚年的生活狀況與心境,曾經引起學界「大做文章」,眾說紛紜。

本書根據大量檔案文獻和第一手的採訪資料,詳盡描繪了陳寅恪生命最後二十年的坎坷經歷,披露了許多鮮為人知的史實,為讀者打開了一段塵封的歷史,從陳寅恪的生存狀態和人際著手,探索了他的內心世界,並以此分析、詮釋了陳寅恪晚年作品的內涵,提出了不少頗有說服力的見解。(摘自博客來網路書店)
Bead on an Anthill 豆瓣
作者: Delphine Red Shirt Bison Books 1999 - 2
'Delphine Red Shirt has done a very admirable job of interweaving the past and present, the old ways and new ways, and has captured the often poignant struggle to strike a middle ground between these two often conflicting worlds. This story derives a great deal of strength from its detail and honesty' - Joseph Starita, author of "The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge". 'Delphine Red Shirt gently explores her childhood caught between traditional and evolving Lakota ways. She movingly recalls how her family's support enabled her to thrive despite the tragedy and poverty of reservation life' - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, author of "Completing the Circle"."Bead on an Anthill" is the story of a Lakota girl's experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1960s and 1970s. Raised in a home without books, Delphine Red Shirt relied on family and friends as her 'books' and wove their stories into her own. Like her ancestors, she felt a powerful connection to the openness of the Plains. She participated in coming-of-age ceremonies and learned the special rules for stringing beads together and the messages conveyed by hairstyles. At the same time, Red Shirt became increasingly aware of the distance between her world and that of her ancestors. Delphine Red Shirt is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and represents her tribe as a nongovernmental representative at the United Nations.
After the Wall 豆瓣
作者: Jana Hensel PublicAffairs 2008 - 3
Jana Hensel was thirteen on the night the Berlin Wall fell. The moment it happened, everyone proclaimed it a Great Historical Event. The Cold War was over! Freedom was at hand! But in all the heady celebration, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who had grown up in the shadow of Communism with all its hokey comforts: the Young Pioneer youth groups, the cheerful Communist propaganda, and the comforting knowledge that they lived in a Germany unblemished by an ugly Nazi past and a greedy Capitalist future. This had been her life. Suddenly it was gone. In After the Wall , Jana Hensel tells the story of a lost generation of East German kids forced to abandon their past and feel their way through a foreign landscape to an uncertain future. It is a bittersweet story of loss and discovery.
The Ph.D. Grind 豆瓣 Goodreads
9.0 (43 个评分) 作者: Philip J·Guo Clearway Logistics Phase 1a 2012 - 7
This book chronicles my six years of working towards a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University from 2006 to 2012. A diverse variety of people can benefit from reading it, including:
undergraduates who might be interested in pursuing a Ph.D.,
current Ph.D. students who are seeking guidance or inspiration,
professors who want to better understand Ph.D. students,
employers who hire and manage people with Ph.D. degrees,
professionals working in any creative or competitive field where self-driven initiative is crucial,
and educated adults (or precocious kids) who are curious about how academic research is produced.
2020年4月8日 已读
In hindsight, six years after my initial read (and me in 4th year PhD in 2020), the stories described poignantly relevant and true. But this is a literate description and the author's grand attempt to escape the trap. To us, the trapped, what could have helped?
传记 回忆录 知识分子
The Life of Adam Smith 豆瓣
作者: Ian Simpson Ross Oxford University Press, USA 2010 - 11
This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith's life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has recently come to light, this full-scale biography of Adam Smith examines the personality, career, and social and intellectual circumstances of the Scottish moral philosopher regarded as the founder of scientific economics, whose legacy of thought - most notably about the free market and the role of the state - concerns us all. Ian Simpson Ross draws on correspondence, archival documents, the reports of contemporaries, and the record of Smith's publications to fashion a lively account of Adam Smith as a man of letters, moralist, historian, and critic, as well as an economist. Supported with full scholarly apparatus for students and academics, the book also offers 20 halftone illustrations representing Smith and the world in which he lived.
忍不住的“关怀” 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.5 (35 个评分) 作者: 杨奎松 广西师范大学出版社 2013 - 5
《忍不住的"关怀":1949年前后的书生与政治》内容简介:对于20世纪中国的知识分子来说,一个最大的历史悲剧就是,他们是最早投身于救国救民的一群人,自认为最了解政治大势,最后却在政治场中最不知所措、动辄得咎、受人轻视。
《忍不住的"关怀":1949年前后的书生与政治》讨论的三人,一位是燕京大学哲学教授张东荪,长期浸淫于政治活动之中,1949年后曾官居政务院委员;一位是报人王芸生,擅长政治评论,多年担任《大公报》主笔;一位是清华教授潘光旦,理科出身,对政治外行却一样曾积极想要为中国政治建言。三人在1949年以前都曾经在不同领域有过出色表现,1949年以后却先后遭遇滑铁卢,人生事业从此一蹶不振。
杨奎松教授不满足于像过去一样笼统地发出质问:为什么中国大陆的知识分子当年竟会停止思想,集体转向?因为随着越来越多的私人记录以及各种报刊、档案文献披露出来,他发现,事情并非那样简单。
历史碎影 豆瓣
作者: 赵柏田 2006 - 8
作者从日常生活的视野,对这些生活在20初叶的南方知识分子做了一次发现式的书写,细腻而敏锐地写出了他们所面临的人生,从而对那一特定时代知识分子的境遇作出反思。江南语调和小说笔法的混合运用,使得这些文字充满了悲剧、颓废与忧伤相杂呈的调子,就像南方阴霾、多雨、潮湿的天气,缓慢而顽固地进入我们的内心。
赵柏田在《历史碎影》一书堪称完美地实施了这一昂贵而又合乎人情的理念。为了与大历史的暗中对抗更有力道,他在对许多人的叙述中不惜采用小说笔法;我们看得很清楚,小说笔法在这里正好构成了破译全息图的最佳方式之一--何况那些充满着过多歧义、暧昧和晦涩特征性的包孕性时刻,正需要小说笔法去进行较为详尽的呈现。在赵柏田偶尔不无虚构的叙述中,一个动荡的大时代曾经长期被大历史忽略甚至遗忘的侧影出现了--这幅侧影十分重要,因为它让我们真正地、有血有肉地看见了一个大时代的边际。
帝国的迷津 豆瓣
作者: 赵柏田 2008 - 9
十九世纪四十年代以来,西潮涌入,新旧知识交汇,古老的中国正向近代转型。时代风云变幻,处在这一时代的知识分子,如林则徐、徐继畬、王韬、容闳、严复、康有为、杨度、李慈铭等人,无不面临政治、人性、知识和爱欲的煎迫与选择。
本书是“赵柏田知识分子系列”第三部。作者摒弃宏大、僵硬的教科书式历史叙事,而是贴近人物的内心世界,利用历史上遗留下来的、进不了大历史的边角废料,进行了作者所谓的“小历史”书写,为一个个历史人物重建了鲜明的形象,也为一个辉煌而又沉重的时代找到了它的侧影和轮廓。当代中国重温当日语境,或可不无镜鉴之处。
唐浩明评点曾国藩家书(上下) 豆瓣
作者: [清] 曾国藩 原著 / 唐浩明 评点 岳麓书社 2002 - 9
《唐浩明评点曾国藩家书》介绍了曾国藩的家世、学养和人脉关系。举凡曾氏大家庭、小家庭的每位成员,与曾氏有较密切交往的亲戚朋友,《评点》中都将眉目清晰的予以介绍。读者将可以从中了解曾氏终生崇拜的偶像是他的祖父,而他的祖母却比祖父整整大7岁,母亲又比父亲整整大5岁。他的两个儿子都短命,五个女婿几乎都不争气,至于接续曾氏家庭的大功臣,却是他的二儿媳。
《评点》交代了所选家书的时代背景。曾氏所办的许多事都与当时的时代密切相关,勾勒出其时代背景,将有助于读者对家书及其本人的更深了解。如曾氏出山前夕太平军围攻长沙的情况,为什么团练最先会在湖南出现。又如慈禧太后为什么会特别重用曾氏。还有,十几年的战争给当时百姓带来的灾难:富庶的皖南居然公开卖人肉,每斤标价120文。
《评点》讲述了大量信中只是略微点到,而读者又非常感兴趣的话题。比如慈禧与恭王的矛盾,撤湘军的内幕,淮军崛起的原因,曾氏的身体状况,他最后死于什么病等等。
《评点》介绍了晚清的官场典章制度、社会习俗等等。比如九品十八级的官制、官员的月薪、年终奖、年终考核等。还有,一个教师当时可以赚多少钱,一个医生的出诊费多少,一个丫环值多少钱。当时的物价怎样,一两银子究竟是个什么概念等等。此外,针对家书中所常见的经史引文,《评点》将说明出处,笺释其义,帮助读者扫清阅读障碍,增加国学知识。
曾氏湘乡老家典藏的家书中在清末付刻时有的去掉不用,有的则删去某些段落。这里面有哪些外人或后人不知的原因?《评点》会在相关的家书后面告诉读者:有的是为了顾全曾氏本人的面子,有的是为了顾及李鸿章兄弟的面子等等。
曾氏的思想对中国近代政治、军事、外交极有影响,《评点》在相关章节中介绍了曾氏的言行对蔡锷、陈独秀、毛泽东、蒋介石等人有哪些具体的影响,并通过他们而影响中国近代政局。
从中国传统文化的大视角来考察曾氏的思想,分析曾氏有哪些方面对今人仍有启益价值和借鉴价值,是《评点》作者用力最多的部分。比如作者将会细致地分析曾氏有关求缺的思想、惜福的思想、不留钱财给子孙的思想等等。
探索曾氏的内心世界,发表作者的读史领悟,是《评点》的最大特色。比如推动曾氏将湘军做大做强的第一动力究竟是什么?又如曾氏官越大、权越重、心里越恐惧、行动越谨慎。他为什么会这样?作者在评点曾氏为母亲办丧事时,提出了“孝道平衡了“三从四德”’的观点;在评点曾氏教子时,提出聪明并不是人的重要美质等等。
2016年1月28日 已读
唐浩明的点评有时过于表面,如评点理学/儒学处。
传记 历史
上学记 豆瓣 Goodreads
9.2 (99 个评分) 作者: 何兆武 / 文靖 生活·读书·新知三联书店 2006 - 8
何兆武教授的这部口述浓缩了20世纪中国知识分子的心灵史。它叙述的尽管只是1920年代-1940年代末不足30年间他学生时期的陈年往事,却蕴含着一个饱经沧桑的老人对整个20世纪历史的反思,对我们重新认识过往、观察现在以及展望未来都有着重要的启迪,这大概是这本书能够激起读者广泛共鸣的原因。这本书同时又是很个性化的,何先生不惮于表露自己的真情实感,不忌讳议论先贤的道德文章,既树立了理性的尊严,又使自己的性情展露无遗。在目前这个功利滔滔的的世界上,何先生对知识与真理的热诚仿佛一股清泉,可以冲洗那些被免得熏染的心灵,使其复现润泽。这也是老一代知识分子风范的存照。任何津津乐道于名人八卦消息的解读,都大大偏离了何先生的志趣。久已厌倦标签化历史著作的读者,可以从这本书中获得丰富、鲜活的历史体验,特别是今天“上学者”和“治学者”,或可藉此思考一下,学应该如何上、如何治。
——中华读书报
今生今世 豆瓣
作者: 胡蘭成 香港天地图书有限公司 2013 - 1
《今生今世》是作者的散文体自传,集中描述了一个农家子弟从农村走向城市的坎坷命运,多情而又细腻地刻画了自己的生活和爱情。作者身处民国乱世,人生遭遇跌宕起伏,面对世景世情,多有独到的感触,颠沛流离之后,作者却欢喜的笔调来总结和反省自己的一生,在他眼里,人间到处充满惊艳的故事,经历了战争的残酷荡涤,作者揭示了中国的文明其实即是路上有风景,人家有笑语,所以在他笔下,一路展开的,尽是悠悠人世的美丽风景。
作者在书中借对自己的反省,展现出对人、对物、对事的亲切的观照与剖析,他写人物鞭辟入里、入木三分,写风景浩然有色、气象万千。他的文字独创一格,语言华丽,譬如首章《韶华胜极》对自己童年生活及江南风景的描写,虚实结合,极尽妖艳,有别于历代文人。他的文字平淡中有一种妩媚,简单而华丽,是真正的汉风之美,可与沈从文的《边城》相媲。他的创作风格继承了中国传统古典文学的书写方式,写实而充满诗意,与《诗经》遥相呼应,又与《红楼梦》一脉相承,开启了中国近代散文别具风格的一面。(引自小北谈《今生今世》)
Hillbilly Elegy 豆瓣 Goodreads
7.0 (22 个评分) 作者: J. D. Vance Harper 2016 - 6
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN"
"You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist
"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal
"Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility.
But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
2017年8月16日 已读
文笔差End of Eddy极多...流水账啊... 时事造英雄..
传记 美国
清华园日记 豆瓣
8.6 (10 个评分) 作者: 季羡林 外语教学与研究出版社 2009
《清华园日记》是季羡林于清华大学学习期间所写的日记,时间跨度为1932年8月22日至1934年8月11日。曾分别出版过影印本与排印本(辽宁美术出版社,2002年),本册以排印本为底本,注释为作者的学生高鸿所加。
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留德十年 豆瓣
8.9 (20 个评分) 作者: 季羡林 外语教学与研究出版社 2009
本书记述了先生当年抛家傍路赴德求学德经过。 在赫赫有名的哥廷根大学,先生几经辗转选定印度学为主修方向,遂对其倾注热情与辛劳,最终获得博士学位,也由此奠定了毕生学术研究的深厚根基。