给四月的信：我们如何知道

by Alan Macfarlane, 艾伦·麦克法兰, 马啸 (Translator)

本书是作者、剑桥大学人类学教授麦克法兰应译者马啸女士的邀请，写给四月小友（马啸的女儿）的礼物，因此对中国读者来说是有吸引力的。中国以及我们所处的世界发生急速变化，我们如何看待世界？对于我们周遭的世界如何去感知和理解？作者从自身求知的经验出发，以简明概略、力求浅显的语言， 讲述了人类历史区分的主要四个世界观时期：神话时期、轴心时期、科学时期和后现代时期。它们是认识这个世界的高层次方法。特别是书中对中国问题的关注，为我们提供了认识问题的有益视角。

118 pages, Paperback

First published May 3, 2014

About the author

Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge.