A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI

Arnold J. Toynbee (作者), D. C. Somervell (合著者)

出版社: OUP USA; Reprint (1988年3月24日)

叢書名: Royal Institute of International Affairs

平裝: 630頁

語種： 英語

ISBN: 0195050800

條形碼: 9780195050806

商品尺寸: 20.3 x 3.1 x 13.5 cm

商品重量: 816 g

內容簡介

《歷史研究》是英國史學家阿諾德·約瑟夫·湯因比著圖書。在《歷史研究》中，湯因比列舉了世界歷史上的二十餘種存活或已經死亡的文明形態，並對它們的各自發展作了綜合比較，他認為，文化是通過對環境的“挑戰”的應戰所遭受的考驗而產生的；文化的生長是由那些“退隱”和“復出”的少數偉大人物的歷史活動所決定的；文化的衰落來自於少數創造者喪失了創造能力，多數人相應地不再支持與模仿，整個社會失去了新的應戰能力；文明的解體在於社會體系和靈魂的分裂。《歷史研究》破除了西方中心論和單一歷史線性發展的史觀，在西方歷史哲學著作中具有崇高的地位。

Arnold Toynbee's analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations has been acknowledged as one of the great achievements of twentieth-century scholarship. D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this monumental work is a great achievement in its own right. While reducing the work to one sixth of its original size, he has succeeded in preserving its method and character. The first volume of the abridgement presents Toynbee's philosophy of history as it appears in the first six volumes of the original work. 

This volume includes the Introduction; The Geneses of Civilizations; The Growth of Civilizations; The Breakdowns of Civilizations; and The Disintegrations of Civilizations. The second volume comprises volumes 7-10 of the original, including Universal States; Universal Churches; Heroic Ages; Contacts Between Civilizations in Space; Contacts Between Civilizations in Time; Law and Freedom in History; The Prospects of the Western Civilization; and Conclusion.