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The Enlightenment: An Interpretation #1-2
启蒙时代：人的觉醒与现代秩序的诞生
18世纪，是启蒙的世纪。
从爱丁堡到那不勒斯，从巴黎到柏林，从波士顿到费城，“自由”是这个时代的纲领，它让人倍感欣喜：光荣的独立前景和大展宏图的无限机会向所有人敞开了。
人类有史以来首次将自信建立在现实基础上，各个阶层的人们自信满满，开始相信理性和行动的力量。启蒙哲人们着手设计了各种改造秩序的方案——社会、伦理、科学、艺术、政治、教育……
就此，挥别古老的过去，今日世界在他们手中诞生。
历史如何在自由观念的冲击下改头换面？个人如何在启蒙精神的照耀下主宰命运？现代史学巨擘彼得·盖伊，为我们娓娓道来。
从爱丁堡到那不勒斯，从巴黎到柏林，从波士顿到费城，“自由”是这个时代的纲领，它让人倍感欣喜：光荣的独立前景和大展宏图的无限机会向所有人敞开了。
人类有史以来首次将自信建立在现实基础上，各个阶层的人们自信满满，开始相信理性和行动的力量。启蒙哲人们着手设计了各种改造秩序的方案——社会、伦理、科学、艺术、政治、教育……
就此，挥别古老的过去，今日世界在他们手中诞生。
历史如何在自由观念的冲击下改头换面？个人如何在启蒙精神的照耀下主宰命运？现代史学巨擘彼得·盖伊，为我们娓娓道来。
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Published May 1, 2019
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Peter Gay
150 books156 followersPeter Joachim Gay was a German-American historian, educator, and author. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers (1997–2003). He received the American Historical Association's (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004. He authored over 25 books, including The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, a two-volume award winner; Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968); and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988).
Gay was born in Berlin in 1923, left Germany in 1939 and emigrated, via Cuba, to the United States in 1941. From 1948 to 1955 he was a political science professor at Columbia University, and then a history professor from 1955 to 1969. He left Columbia in 1969 to join Yale University's History Department as Professor of Comparative and Intellectual European History and was named Sterling Professor of History in 1984.
Gay was the interim editor of The American Scholar after the death of Hiram Haydn in 1973 and served on that magazine's editorial board for many years. Sander L. Gilman, a literary historian at Emory University, called Gay "one of the major American historians of European thought, period".
Gay was born in Berlin in 1923, left Germany in 1939 and emigrated, via Cuba, to the United States in 1941. From 1948 to 1955 he was a political science professor at Columbia University, and then a history professor from 1955 to 1969. He left Columbia in 1969 to join Yale University's History Department as Professor of Comparative and Intellectual European History and was named Sterling Professor of History in 1984.
Gay was the interim editor of The American Scholar after the death of Hiram Haydn in 1973 and served on that magazine's editorial board for many years. Sander L. Gilman, a literary historian at Emory University, called Gay "one of the major American historians of European thought, period".
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