MIND VS. MONEY: THE WAR BETWEEN INTELLECTUALS AND CAPITALISM
Book ID/图书代码： 13149010B40701
English Summary/英文概要： For the past 150 years, Western intellectuals have trumpeted contempt for capitalism and capitalists. They have written novels, plays, and manifestos to demonstrate the evils of the economic system in which they live. Dislike and contempt for the bourgeoisie, the middle classes, industry, and commerce have been a prominent trait of leading Western writers and artists. Mind vs. Money is an analytical history of how and why so many intellectuals have opposed capitalism. It is also an argument for how this opposition can be tempered.
Historically, intellectuals have expressed their rejection of capitalism through many different movements, including nationalism, anti-Semitism, socialism, fascism, communism, and the 1960s counterculture. Hostility to capitalism takes new forms today. The anti-globalization, Green, communitarian, and New Age movements are all examples. Intellectuals give such movements the legitimacy and leadership they would otherwise lack. What unites radical intellectuals of the nineteenth century, communists and fascists of the twentieth, and anti-globalization protestors of the twenty-first, along with many other intellectuals not associated with these movements, is their rejection of capitalism. Kahan argues that intellectuals are a permanently alienated elite in capitalist societies.
In myriad forms, and on many fronts, the battle between Mind and Money continues today. Anti-Americanism is one of them. Americans like to see their country as a beacon of freedom and prosperity. But in the eyes of many European and American intellectuals, when America is identified with capitalism, it is transformed from moral beacon into the "Great Satan." This is just one of the issues Mind vs. Money explores. The conflict between Mind and Money is the great, unresolved conflict of modern society. To end it, we must first understand it.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在过去的150年里，西方知识分子表现出对资本主义和资本家的蔑视。他们创作小说、戏剧和宣言，为了证明经济体系为其生活所带来的弊端。对资产阶级、中产阶级、工商业的厌恶和蔑视一直是西方主要国家的作家和艺术家的显著特点。《头脑Vs金钱》是阐述如此多的知识分子反对资本主义的原因和方式的分析性历史，也是这种反对如何能得到锤炼的论据。
从历史上看，知识分子已透过许多不同的运动，包括民族主义、反犹太主义、社会主义、法西斯主义、共产主义和60年代的反文化运动，来表达对资本主义的抵制。在今天敌视资本主义有了新的形式。反全球化、绿色主义、社群主义和新时代运动都是例子。知识分子给予这种运动合法性和领导，而这正是其所缺失的。是什么让19世纪激进知识分子、20世纪共产主义和法西斯主义，还有21世纪反全球化示威者团结在一起，联合其他并不与这些运动相关的知识分子？是他们对资本主义的抵制。 卡翰认为，知识分子是资本主义社会永久疏远的精英。
今天，头脑与金钱的较量在许多地方以多样的形式继续进行着。反美国主义就是其中之一。美国人喜欢将自己的国家看作为一座自由和繁荣的灯塔。但在许多欧洲和美洲知识分子的眼中，美国标榜资本主义的时候，更像是将自身从一座灯塔转变成“大撒旦”。这仅仅是《头脑Vs金钱》所探讨的主题之一。头脑与金钱之间的冲突是激烈的，是现代社会无法解决的冲突。要终结它，我们必须先了解它。(兼职翻译-JDM)
Awards/获奖情况：“The eight chapters that follow [the first chapter] present a lively discussion of the ebb and flow of anti-capitalist movements and the symbiotic relationship between capitalism and liberal intellectuals…Recommended.”---Choice (“八个章节紧密衔接[第一章]提出一个热烈的讨论：反资本主义运动起起伏伏以及资本主义与自由知识分子的共生关系...推荐。”---《选择》)
"Alan Kahan has crafted the preeminent account of the ambiguous relationship between intellectuals and modern market societies. This is not merely a polemic, but a serious and balanced account of the role intellectuals have played in modern Western history. Integrating discussions of literature and politics, philosophical concepts and events, this is intellectual history at its best - and what is better, at its most relevant to today’s world. Brilliant and insightful, splendidly written on many levels, accessible to the general reader and challenging and provocative for the scholar, wide-ranging, theoretically sophisticated without being bogged down in jargon, Kahan presents a stimulating and provocative account of how the clash between intellectuals and the market has helped produce a wealth of human tragedy. Even more important, he has given us new ways to think about how this can be avoided in future---Nicholas Capaldi, Loyola University New Orleans ( “阿兰·卡翰直指知识分子与现代市场社会的隐晦不清的关系。这不仅是一个论战，更是非常重要的对知识分子在现代西方历史中扮演角色的平衡。结合文学政治的讨论、哲学概念和事件，这是对知识分子历史最好的展现——更重要的是，它最大限度地结合了当今世界。本书充满智慧洞察透彻，多层次出色地描写，对普通读者通俗易懂对学者又不失挑战性和激发性，涉及广泛，理论高深但没有难懂的术语，卡翰呈现了知识分子如何市场碰撞，从而造成人类财富的悲剧。更为重要的是，对于在未来如何避免，卡翰给我们带来了新的思考方式---尼古拉斯·卡帕尔迪，新奥尔良洛约拉大学)
“A useful primer to a giant, centuries-long debate. I would recommend it as a textbook for a course on the intellectual history of capitalism.”---Jason Kuznicki, Cato Institute (“一个非常有用、对巨大的并持续数百年之久的辩论的入门简介。我建议把它作为关于资本主义知识分子历史的一本教科书。”---贾森·库兹尼克，卡托研究所)
“[Kahan] masterfully traces intellectual anticapitalism in the historical and philosophical tapestry of Western society. Clarity, which makes the work very readable…Readers will learn a great deal about lineages of all major anticapitalist arguments and their permutations in a global world.”Jekabs Bikis, Dallas Baptist University."---Jekabs Bikis, Dallas Baptist University (“(卡翰)巧妙地追溯了西方社会历史和哲学背景下知识份子的反资本主义。清楚明了，使得本书具有可读性...读者将了解到很多反资本主义主要论点，以及它们在全球认知度的排名。”---Jekabs Bikis，达拉斯浸会大学)
About the Author/作者介绍： Alan Kahan is currently adjunct professor at the American Business School of Paris. Previously he was professor of history at Florida International University. He is the author of numerous articles and books including Alexis de Tocqueville, Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe, and Aristocratic Liberalism.
艾伦·卡翰是目前在巴黎的美国商学院兼职教授。此前，他是佛罗里达国际大学历史系教授。他写了许多文章和书籍，包括《托克维尔》、《十九世纪的欧洲的自由主义》，和《贵族的自由主义》。
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