Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack

焚書：歷史

基本信息

Author：Richard Ovenden

Format：Paperback | 320 pages

Dimensions：152 x 232 x 28mm | 380g

Publication date：03 Sep 2020

Publisher：John Murray Publishers

Language: English

ISBN10：1529378761

ISBN13：9781529378764

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

以1933年臭名昭著的“非德國”和猶太文學的篝火開始，它提供了納粹意圖如此明確的信號，焚書帶我們踏上了一段長達3000年的旅程，經歷了知識的毀滅和為保存知識而與一切可能性作鬥爭。

世界著名的博德利圖書館館長理查德·奧文登解釋了對圖書館和檔案的攻擊是如何從古代起就成為歷史的特徵，但在現代卻增加了頻率和強度。圖書館不僅僅是文獻的儲存，通過保存法律文件如《大憲章》和公民記錄，它們還支持法治和公民權利。今天，他們代表社會所掌握的知識正受到前所未有的攻擊。在這本引人入勝的書中，他探究了一切，從亞歷山大大圖書館的真實遭遇到《疾風號》文件，從唐納德·特朗普刪除令人尷尬的推特，到約翰·默裏以審查的名義焚燒拜倫的回憶錄。

一個強大的文明歷史和至關重要的物理庫的宣言在我們日益數字化時代,燃燒的書也是一個非常人的故事動畫,一個不太可能的冒險家,自學成才的考古學家、詩人、侵害,當然,圖書館員和英勇的長度會去保護和救助知識,確保文明倖存了下來。從死海古卷在沙漠中被重新發現，被羅馬人藏了近2000年，到啟發威廉·莫里斯的中世紀手稿，過去的知識仍然給我們很多寶貴的教訓，而我們忽視了它，就會有危險。

Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. 

Richard Ovenden, director of the world-famous Bodleian Library, explains how attacks on libraries and archives have been a feature of history since ancient times but have increased in frequency and intensity during the modern era. Libraries are far more than stores of literature, through preserving the legal documents such as Magna Carta and records of citizenship, they also support the rule of law and the rights of citizens. Today, the knowledge they hold on behalf of society is under attack as never before. In this fascinating book, he explores everything from what really happened to the Great Library of Alexandria to the Windrush papers, from Donald Trump's deleting embarrassing tweets to John Murray's burning of Byron's memoirs in the name of censorship. 

At once a powerful history of civilisation and a manifesto for the vital importance of physical libraries in our increasingly digital age, Burning the Books is also a very human story animated by an unlikely cast of adventurers, self-taught archaeologists, poets, freedom-fighters -- and, of course, librarians and the heroic lengths they will go to preserve and rescue knowledge, ensuring that civilisation survives. From the rediscovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the desert, hidden from the Romans and lost for almost 2000 years to the medieval manu* that inspired William Morris, the knowledge of the past still has so many valuable lessons to teach us and we ignore it at our peril.

作者簡介

理查德·奧文登是博德利圖書館的圖書管理員。自1987年以來，他在許多重要的檔案和圖書館工作過，包括英國上議院圖書館、蘇格蘭國家圖書館(作為珍本圖書館長)和愛丁堡大學的收藏主任。奧文登被選為文物學會和皇家藝術學會的研究員，也是美國哲學學會的外籍成員。他是牛津大學聖休學院的榮譽院士，並擁有牛津大學貝利奧爾學院的教授獎學金。他的作品經常在各大報紙和網絡平台上發表。《焚書：歷史》是他的第一本書。

Richard Ovenden is the Bodley's Librarian. Since 1987 he has worked in a number of important archives and libraries, including the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland (as a Curator of Rare Books) and in the University of Edinburgh, where he was Director of Collections. Ovenden was elected to Fellowships of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society of Arts, and a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford. His writing has been frequently published in major newspapers and online platforms. Burning the Books is his first book.