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finished reading 日常生活颂歌 by Tzvetan Todorov (轻与重)

Tzvetan Todorov, 曹丹红: 日常生活颂歌 (2012, 华东师范大学出版社) No rating

原 Eloge du quotidien: Essai sur la peinture hollandaise du XVIIe siècle.

17世纪的荷兰绘画作为西方重要的历史文化遗产,历来受到包括黑格尔在内的西方学者的关注。托多罗夫在《日常生活颂歌》里评述了荷兰风俗画所产生的独特的历史背景,探讨了有关17世纪荷兰绘画的几种主要阐释模式,并分析了其文化与伦理的内涵。

不到十万字(但整整开出了200页)的小论文,比较老派的艺术史。排版由于开本过小行距过宽字体过大很糟糕把本来可以放到对应文字旁边的图都挤到了很麻烦的地方。我想作者本人的写作应该不是这样矫揉造作的,但译者明显是当代法国哲学读太多了。 第三章的观察是精确的,而且是一个有无限深度的话题,可以通过更深地剖析与当时荷兰的宗教精神背景以及(现存的)科学史等结合起来给出对从方济各会的运动开始的地面事物的圣化过程的这一环节的更完整的描绘,可作者显然并不像深入进去,如同法国人(以及日本人)的写作风格般蜻蜓点水。 结尾把这一过程看作是摩尼教影响消退的过程我持怀疑态度。

Trevor Wishart, Simon Emmerson: On Sonic Art (1996, Taylor & Francis Group) 3 stars

In this newly revised book On Sonic Art, Trevor Wishart takes a wide-ranging look at …

An irrelevant speculation

3 stars

The point I disagree the most with Wishart is that I don't consider sound per se as interesting, and I don't quite understand why Wishart values perceptual reality this much. There's a burning desire in me to "hear", say, Pontragin duality - and that has nothing to do with any perceptual reality. Let's think about the history of mathematics. Before around the time of Riemann, mathematics was really just about properties of numbers, about finding roots of certain equations, etc. This for me is profoundly boring so that I wasn't interested in mathematics at all when I hadn't learn abstract algebra and didn't know what topology is. Now we more or less know that mathematics is a general science of structure and mechanism, the most general science of abstract synthesis. It now seemingly has nothing to do with number at all - though factually in the deeper levels they're still …

Roger E. Olson: The Story of Christian Theology (1999) No rating

History is made up of stories--narratives that recount the events, movements, ideas and lives that …

Read it when I was a college junior. The author is a baptist and is in a relatively strongly evangelical tradition so the perspective taken is sufficiently suffocating, focusing on dumb protestant theologians. In fact he wrote a book on 20th-century theology which was as bad as possible. Overall it's not a bad "beginners book", but compared with, say Tillich's book, it's a piece of junk. It's always like that: Catholic = maybe too hard, Lutheran and some non-evangelical Reformed = good but with many absurd claims, Evangelical = dumb.