JUVENESCENCE: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF OUR AGE
Book ID/图书代码： 13560014B74236
English Summary/英文概要： How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a history that predates us and will outlast us. Looked at through that lens, many aspects of late modernity would suggest that we are older than ever, but Robert Pogue Harrison argues that we are also getting startlingly younger—in looks, mentality, and behavior. We live, he says, in an age of juvenescence.
Like all of Robert Pogue Harrison’s books, Juvenescence ranges brilliantly across cultures and history, tracing the ways that the spirits of youth and age have inflected each other from antiquity to the present. Drawing on the scientific concept of neotony, or the retention of juvenile characteristics through adulthood, and extending it into the cultural realm, Harrison argues that youth is essential for culture’s innovative drive and flashes of genius. At the same time, however, youth—which Harrison sees as more protracted than ever—is a luxury that requires the stability and wisdom of our elders and the institutions. “While genius liberates the novelties of the future,” Harrison writes, “wisdom inherits the legacies of the past, renewing them in the process of handing them down.”
A heady, deeply learned excursion, rich with ideas and insights, Juvenescence could only have been written by Robert Pogue Harrison. No reader who has wondered at our culture’s obsession with youth should miss it.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 你多大了？关于这个问题，你想得越多，就越难回答。因为我们在以不同的方式变老：生理方面、心理方面以及社会方面。并且，我们在一个大的文化背景中变老，我们正处在历史的中点，我们既有可能落后于时代，也有可能超前于时代。以这种方式看世界，晚期现代性的许多观点表明我们实际上要比实际年龄更老，但Robert Pogue Harrison认为我们也在相貌方面、心态方面和行为方面变得更加年轻。他表示，我们正在返老还童。
类似于Robert Pogue Harrison的其他作品，《返老还童》一书涵盖了文化和历史方面的内容，并探究了从古到今年轻人与老年人的心态是如何相互影响的。利用童稚期的科学概念，或者说是成年人依然保留青少年时代特征并将其影响扩展到文化领域的观点，Harrison认为青春是文化创新的动力，是瞬间闪现的天才光芒。与此同时，Harrison还认为现代人的青春期延长了，青春是需要年长者的智慧与恒心来维护的奢侈品。“虽然青春是创造未来新奇事物的动力，”Harrison写道，“智慧却使过去的传奇得以延续，在传承历史的同时不断更新历史。”
本书带你漫游于令人陶醉、深邃渊博的思想世界。只有Robert Pogue Harrison才能写出像《返老还童》这样富有深刻见解的佳作。任何热爱文化的读者都不应错过本书。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“我不确定是否有哪个在世的评论家让我真心崇拜。如果有的话，那他一定是Harrison。他的研究富有真正的文学价值，不是简单的评论-------读过他的作品之后，他的言论会令人回味无穷。虽然这部书涉及的范围比作品《花园》要小，但它注定会成为一部经典。”(观察家Jonathan Bate)"I’m not sure that I’d sell my shirt for any living critic. But if there had to be one, it would unquestionably be Harrison, whose study of forests has the true quality of literature, not criticism-it stays with you, like an amiable ghost, long after you have read it. Though more modest in scope, this new book, Gardens, is similarly destined to become a classic." (Jonathan Bate, Spectator)"
About the Author/作者介绍： Robert Pogue Harrison是斯坦福大学的意大利文学Rosina Pierotti荣誉教授，以及意大利研究生会的主席。他的作品包括：《森林》、《死者联盟》（The Dominion of the Dead）和《花园》，均由芝加哥大学出版社出版。Robert Pogue Harrison is the Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian literature and chair of graduate studies in Italian at Stanford University. He is the author of Forests, The Dominion of the Dead, and Gardens, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
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