Mayur Khisty từ Snépele, Snēpeles pagasts, , Latvia

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2018-05-18 00:30

Tranh Truyện Cổ Tích Việt Nam - Bộ 15 Cuốn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

"Man's genetic inheritance is quite formless until it has been given a shape by social forces, yet the direction of these forces themselves may always be changed by the intervention of consciousness" (24) Fundamentally Marxist and existentialist argument against 'human nature' (and against racism (19), Malson's Wolf Children offers further context for the late 50s and mid 60s assaults on transhistorical naturalisms in Foucault and other thinkers. The roots of Butler's Gender Trouble, inter alia, can be found in here. Malson--better known as a jazz writer!--is irredemably humanist. Humans alone, per Malson, can be completely altered; only humans can really be said to use tools (32), to have true intelligence (and here he uses Merleau-Ponty), or to make gifts. The savage character of feral children proves the open character of human: it is not that feral children 'revert' but rather that they lack what humans need to be human, namely, a society of their peers: "deprived of the society of others man becomes a monster. He cannot regress to his pre-cultural state, because such a state never existed" (35). Without hailing, without the symbolic, without historical thrownness, there is no human, at least per Malson: "the search for human nature among 'wild' children has always proved fruitless precisely because human nature can appear only when human existence has entered the social context" (12). "Pure thought" no more exists than the "purely human" (18); there is no universal human nature, nor are there "naturally existing" ethnic differences. Truffaut clearly read this book: it's the basis for his Wild Child, but also includes an anecdote of a child surviving a defenestration that appears in L'argent de poche. The book includes Itard's account of Peter of Aveyron, taken from the 1802 English translation.

2018-05-18 03:30

Người Mê Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Uông Triều

I had issue with this book. It's focus was primarily on the future of American cities in the coming 40 years, hypothesizing the existence of a few "Superstar" cities working in tandem with formerly rural areas that have been urbanized to support the growing population of the United States. This future population Kotkin speaks of is 400 Million. While I'm not arguing with his theses pertaining to how America's positive growth rate could be the one thing that saves the country from potential decline, as Europe and Japan are faced with negative rates and China teeters on potential disaster due to the combination of the One Child policy in tandem with a disproportionate number of males to females. What I'm arguing with is his belief that the American suburb will reinvent itself in a way that doesn't deal with cars. The idea that Middle America will suddenly become a land of flourishing cities, reliant on cars with minimal emphasis on mass transit, is highly unlikely. Had Kotkin brought this issue up instead of brushing it aside in a single paragraph, I'd have ranked this book higher. It's discusion of the ethnic forecasts for the country in the next 40 years were insightful, as were his discussion on trends in age and cultural attitudes. I just couldn't get past the idea of a major city in the middle of North Dakota. (That's not to say that the 52x income disparity in my beloved NYC isn't criminal)

Người đọc Mayur Khisty từ Snépele, Snēpeles pagasts, , Latvia

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.