英语人文读本·英国篇

出版时间：2009-12  出版社：北京大学出版社  作者：封一函 主编  页数：414  
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内容概要

汉语中的“人文”意指人类社会的各种文化现象，语出《易·贲》：“文明以止，人文也。观乎天文，以察看时变；观乎人文，以化成天下。”在拉丁语中humanities主要指人性和教养．但随着人类文明史的延绵，人文在广义上不仅涉指社会现象和文化艺术。而且生成了包括哲学、经济学、政治学、史学、法学、文艺学、伦理学、语言学、文学等相对于自然科学的学科领域，称为人文学科(humanities)。《英语人文读本·英国篇》并不收录人文学科的研究著述，也不是罗列或展示当今社会中的万千气象。该书旨在引领读者避开当下喧嚣和浮躁的氛围，进入一种冷静的人文思考。    本书收录的文章主题重经典意义和收藏价值。内容涉及伦理道德、宗教习俗、婚姻家庭、人际关系、大众文化、人文修养、心理健康、语言文学、经济政治、哲学美学等。写作体裁不限，包括议论文、散文、短篇自传、随笔、短篇小说等。每篇选文读来或是温馨甜蜜。或是发人深思，或是深情隽永，或是诙谐幽默，具有驱恶趋善．规谏或激励人生的精神作用。

书籍目录

1.The Beauty Industry2.Meditation on the Moon3.Punishment Never Cures Anything4.Universities and Their Function5.In July6.On Book-Buying7.What I Have Lived For8.August9.The Child Angel: A Dream10.Insouciance11.Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature12.Journey Through a Tunnel13.Unworldliness of the Early Christians14.Take Your Home into Your Own Hands15.Of Boldness16.Of Studies17.Of Youth and Age18.Of Wisdom for a Man's Self19.My Life Is Over20.Politics and the English Language21.Getting Up on Cold Mornings22.A Passion for Cities23.First Snow24.The Definition of a Gentleman……

章节摘录

　　But this is, clearly, not the whole story. The modern cult of beautyis not exclusively a function （in the mathematical sense） of wealthIf it were, then the personal appearance industries would have beenas hardly hit by the trade depression as any other business. But, aswe have seen, they have not suffered. Women are retrenching onother things than their faces. The cult of beauty must therefore besymptomatic of changes than have taken place outside the economicsphere. Of what changes？ Of the changes, I suggest, in the status Ofwomen; of the changes in our attitude towards "the merely physical.　　Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only toperform the generally unenviable social functions hitherto4 reservedto the male, but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, feminineprivilege of being attractive. They have the right, if not to be lessvirtuous than their grandmothers, at any rate5 to look less virtuous.The British Matron not long since a creature of austere and eventerrifying aspect, now does her best to achieve and perenniallypreserve the appearance of what her predecessor would have describedas a Lost Woman. She often succeeds. But we are not shocked——atany rate, not morally shocked.

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