THE WRECK OF WESTERN CULTURE：HUMANISM REVISITED

Book ID/图书代码： 119805R00320

English Summary/英文概要： Humanism built Western civilisation as we know it today. Its achievements include the liberation of the individual, democracy, universal rights, and widespread prosperity and comfort. Its ambassadors are the heroes of modern culture: Erasmus, Holbein, Shakespeare, Velázquez, Descartes, Kant, and Freud.

Those who sought to contain humanism’s pride within a frame of higher truth — Luther, Calvin, Poussin, Kierkegaard — could barely interrupt its torrential progress. Those who sought to reform humanism’s tenets — Marx, Darwin, and Nietzsche — were tested by the success of their own prophecies.

So runs the approved view; it is not shared by John Carroll. Rather he articulates a disruptive and compelling alternative version of Western civilisation since the Renaissance and the Reformation contrived to unleash Reason, Will, and a superhuman Man on the world. Here, Carroll significantly reworks his bracing study of humanism’s rise to pre-eminence and its headlong tumble into contradiction. This revised look at the failure of the West’s 500-year experiment with humanism, and its dire cultural consequences, concludes with 11 September, 2001.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 西方的主流文化都认为，人文主义是西方文明的基础。人文主义的成就包括个人的解放，民主，普世人权，以及普遍繁荣和舒适。现代文化的英雄人物，如伊拉斯莫，霍尔宾，莎士比亚，维拉斯克斯，笛卡尔，康德和弗洛伊德，都可说是人文主义的大使。那些想把它置于一个更高真理的框架内的人们，如路德，卡尔文，普桑，基尔凯戈尔，几乎也不能阻挡人文主义的滚滚洪流。那些企图改造人文主义宗旨的人，如马克思，达尔文和尼采，要受到他们自己的预言是否成功的检验。
但是作者不同意这种看法。他认为，西方500年来的人文主义实验失败了，并带来了可怕的文化后果。在他1993年的“人文主义：西方文化的罹难”中，作者已陈述了这一观点，这次更新再版时，则以2001年的9.11事件作为结束。 Zygmunt Bauman评论说：“约翰-卡罗尔在一个别人不敢，或没有毅力去探索的领域内占有了一个完全属于他自己的位置。。。他在今日智力生活中的独特作用在于持续不断的刺激作用。。。卡罗尔对西方文明的非正统的，启迪思考的重新评估，将现代历史上一些宗教的，艺术的和哲学的里程碑，置于新的视角中。。。有些读者会觉得卡罗尔的书振聋发聩，有些人则会觉得它让人震怒，但大家都会感到难以释手。”

Awards/获奖情况：* 出版4個月已銷售 4000本 9-19-2005 update Kellen

Rights Sold: Dutch translation (Inmerc); US (ISI Books); Arabic translation (The Arab Diffusion); Italian translation (Fazi Editore)

About the Author/作者介绍： John Carroll is professor of sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne. His recent books include The Wreck of Western Culture: humanism revisited, The Existential Jesus, a new version of Ego and Soul, and Greek Pilgrimage.
John Carroll是墨尔本一所大学的社会学教授，他最近的书还有：“自我和灵魂：寻求意义的现代西方”（1998），“西方的梦”（2001）和“恐怖：对9.11意义的沉思”（2002）。

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