罗素文集 第14卷

[英]罗素

出版时间

2012-10-01

ISBN

9787100091237

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
这卷自传最耐读的,不是罗素作为逻辑学家或和平主义者的公共形象,而是他一次次把自我放在手术台下解剖的坦诚。他坦言一战爆发时竟有九成人对屠杀前景感到兴奋,由此推翻了对人性、对金钱、对知识分子爱真理的旧有假设;他也毫不掩饰战争结束后的虚无——救活一条命、缩短一分钟战事都没有。这种近乎残酷的自我诚实,让本书超越了普通名人回忆录:它记录的是一个知识分子在时代剧变中如何与自己的冲动、信念和孤独相处。适合那些不满足于“名人八卦”、而想借一个具体灵魂看清思想者内心如何与历史角力的读者。
AI导读
核心看点
  • 记录罗素1914至1944年生活,涵盖两次世界大战经历。
  • 展现其和平主义立场、对苏联态度及在中国、美国的游历。
  • 收录大量书信与自述,呈现与爱因斯坦等智者的精神交流。
读者共识
  • 罗素自我剖析极深,其面对历史事件的立场具前瞻性。
  • 一战部分最精彩,展现其在狂热中坚持反战的孤独与勇气。
  • 虽学术上有遗憾,但一生经历精彩,是了解20世纪的窗口。
精彩摘录
  • "The day of my departure comes near. I have a thousand things to do, yet I sit here idle, thinking useless thoughts, the irrelevant, rebellious thoughts that well-regulated people never think, the thoughts that one hopes to banish by work, but that themselves banish work instead. How I envy those who"
  • "The prospect filled me with horror,but what filled me with even more horror was the fact that the anticipation of carnage was delightful to something like ninety per cent of the population. I had to revise my views on human nature. I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents "
  • "Late into the night I stayed alone in the streets, watching the temper of the crowd, as I had done in the August days four years before. The crowd was frivolous still, and had learned nothing during the period of horror, except to snatch at pleasure more recklessly than before. I felt strangely soli"
  • "When the War was over, I saw that all I had done had been totally useless except to myself. I had not saved a single life or shortened the War by a minute. I had not succeeded in doing anything to diminish the bitterness which caused the Treaty of Versailles. But at any rate I had not been an accomp"
  • "and Littlewood got a telegram from Eddington telling him that the result was what Einstein said it should be."
  • "利特尔伍德接到爱丁顿打来的电报说这个结果是爱因斯坦认为应当如此的"
  • "Ever since the day, in the summer of 1894, when I walked with Alys on Richmond Green after hearing the medical verdict, I had tried to suppress my desire for children. It had, however, grown continually stronger, until it had become almost insupportable. When my first child was born, in November 192"
  • "I had a tiny study which was hardly more than a shed, and there I finished my Inquiry into Meaning and Truth. Often it was so hot that I did my writing stark naked. But heat suits me, and I never found it too hot for work."
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