The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
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品牌: Jill Lepore
基本信息出版社:Knopf (2012年6月5日)精装:320页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307592995条形码:9780307592996商品重量:667 gASIN:0307592995亚马逊热销商品排名:图书商品里排第1,113,467名 (查看图书商品销售排行榜)您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Renowned Harvard scholar andNew Yorkerstaff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? "All anyone can do is ask," Lepore writes. "That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity." Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg, and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. Each of these debates has a history. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life--from board games to breast pumps--Lepore argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the Space Age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy. "New worlds were found," she writes, and "old paradises were lost." As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past,The Mansion of Happinessis delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling.媒体推荐“Equip a profound scholar with H. L. Mencken's instinct for running down charlatans and chuckleheads, and you get this book. It will amuse and embarrass those of us ever befuddled by the rogues in her gallery.” –Garry Wills, author ofLincoln at Gettysburg
“Written with sardonic wit and penetrating intelligence, The Mansion of Happiness is a fascinating and startlingly original guide to the ways in which the human life-cycle has been imagined, manipulated, managed, marketed, and debased in modern times. Lepore weaves her way brilliantly along the mazy track that leads from the egg in which life’s game begins to the giant freezers in which certain crack-brained visionaries hope to defeat death itself. A fast-paced, hilarious, angry, poignant, and richly illuminating book.” –Stephen Greenblatt, author ofThe Swerve: How The World Became Modern
"This is why Jill Lepore is becoming my favorite historian: wise, witty, wide in scope and deep in spirit." –James Gleick, author ofThe Information
“A series of engaging and wonderfully perceptive essays on how individuals caught in time made sense of life and death. Jill Lepore is one of America's most accomplished and imaginative historians." –Linda Colley, author ofThe Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
"With wit and erudition, Lepore demonstrates that nothing is more mutable and time-bound than our most cherished notions about the supposedly eternal verities of life and death."–Susan Jacoby, author ofThe Age of American Unreason
