NOVELTY: A HISTORY OF THE NEW
Book ID/图书代码： 13560013B66471
English Summary/英文概要： If art and science have one thing in common, it’s a hunger for the new - new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come from something, how can anything truly new emerge? Is novelty even possible? In Novelty, Michael North takes us on a dazzling tour of more than two millennia of thinking about the problem of the new, from the puzzles of the pre-Socratics all the way up to the art world of the 1960s and ’70s. The terms of the debate, North shows, were established before Plato, and have changed very little since: novelty, philosophers argued, could only arise from either recurrence or recombination. The former, found in nature’s cycles of renewal, and the latter, seen most clearly in the workings of language - between them we have accounted for nearly all the ways in which novelty has been conceived of in Western history, including reformation, renaissance, invention, revolution, and even evolution. As he pursues this idea through centuries and across disciplines, North exhibits astonishing range, drawing on figures as diverse as Charles Darwin and Robert Smithson, Thomas Kuhn and Ezra Pound, Norbert Wiener and Andy Warhol, all of whom offer different ways of grappling with the idea of originality. Novelty, North demonstrates, remains a central problem of contemporary science and literature - an ever-receding target that, in its complexity and evasiveness, continues to inspire and propel the modern. A heady, ambitious intellectual feast, Novelty is rich with insight, a masterpiece of perceptive synthesis.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果说艺术和科学有一个共同点，那就是渴望创新——新想法和创新，描绘世界的新途径和新看法。但渴望创新带来了一个基本的哲学问题：如果一切都来自于另一些东西，那某些东西如何真正全新的出现？创新可能吗？在《创新》中，迈克尔•诺斯带领我们穿越两千年的对创新这一问题的思考的耀眼之旅，从前苏格拉底哲学家的困惑到20世纪60年代和70年代的艺术世界。诺斯认为辩论的条款在柏拉图之前就出现了，从那以来几乎没有什么改变：哲学家认为创新只能从复发或再循环中产生。前者在自然周期的重建中被发现，后者突出表现在语言的运作上——他们在西方历史上被设想的创新中的关系，我们已经假设了无数种，包括改革，复兴，发明，革命，甚至演变。诺斯奉行这一跨越百年，跨学科的理念，他所展示的作品范围大的惊人，如查尔斯•达尔文和罗伯特•史密森，托马斯•库恩和庞德，诺伯特•维纳和安迪•沃霍尔，所有人提供了独具创造性的想法。诺斯在《创新》中论证了一个仍然是当代科学和文学的中心问题——断后退的目标，其复杂性和推诿继续鼓舞和推动了现代。《创新》是一场雄心勃勃的盛宴，它是洞察力和领悟力合成的杰作。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“《创新》是一个不可缺少对创新的非凡持久力和力量以及我们文化中的创新的解释。这是一本很好的研究，书写清晰，最重要的是里面令人信服的故事。迈克尔•诺斯调查了知识和文化历史的宽广领域，并以精辟，诙谐的口吻和摘要的形式提供了复杂的想法。这是一本包含大胆主张的书，一定会引发激烈的讨论。（彼得•米德尔顿，南安普敦大学）”
“迈克尔•诺斯的《创新》机智，老练，锐利：《新事物的历史》在副标题中用矛盾修饰法进行处理，内容广泛，从 从古典希腊到现代主义作家，如庞德，再到20世纪60年代和70年代的艺术批评。在探索创新的多价态和模型中，诺斯实现了最难以琢磨的成就：如何解释的东西可以一次性变成新的和旧的，经常性的和意想不到的。强烈建议不仅学者要读，一般读者也可以看一看。（N.凯瑟琳•海尔斯，《我们是如何思考》的作者）”
“在这本雄心勃勃，令人钦佩的书中，迈克尔•诺斯邀请我们重新解读创新。横跨哲学，科学和艺术学科，他梳理出塑造我们对如何进入世界的感觉的重复模式。在诺斯的犀利目光和非凡清晰的文字的压力下，创新变得很熟悉，但是也比我们所了解的更让人惊讶。这是思想史的一大贡献。（丽塔•菲德尔斯基，弗吉尼亚大学）”
About the Author/作者介绍： 迈克尔•诺斯是洛杉矶加州大学的英语教授以及多本书的作者。他住在加拿大谷村。
Michael North is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and the author of several books. He lives in Valley Village, CA.
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