诺贝尔奖获得者阿玛蒂亚·森(Amartya Sen)撰写了一本人们期待已久的关于家庭、归属、不平等和身份认同的回忆录,讲述了致力于改善人类的独特生活。对阿马蒂亚·森来说,“家”是他成长的许多地方,包括现代孟加拉国的达卡;加尔各答,他在那里学习经济学;还有剑桥,他在那里与20世纪最伟大的人打交道。在《世界之家》中,这些“家”共同构成了20世纪和21世纪生活中无与伦比的真实愿景。
森以其特有的道德清晰性,反思了将他的世界撕裂的灾难性事件,从日本对缅甸和印度的袭击到1943年的孟加拉饥荒,印度独立斗争,以及伴随英国统治结束而爆发的有毒民族主义。尽管如此,森——一位不知疲倦地为无家可归者辩护的人——仍然是一位无所畏惧的乐观主义者,他现在一如既往地致力于打破交战民族之间的隔阂。《世界上的家》既是一本关于深刻思想、人物和地点的书,也是一本关于跨越距离和时间的人类同理心的书,也是一本关于在世界上的家的书。
Home in the World: A Memoir [Audiobook]
From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. For Amartya Sen, “home” has been many places, including Dhaka, in modern Bangladesh, where he grew up; Calcutta, where he studied economics; and Cambridge, where he engaged with the greatest minds of the 20th century. In Home in the World, these “homes” collectively form an unparalleled and truthful vision of 20th- and 21st-century life.
With characteristic moral clarity, Sen reflects on cataclysmic events that tore his world asunder, from the Japanese assault on Burma and India to the Bengal famine of 1943, the struggle for Indian independence, and the outbreak of toxic nationalism that accompanied the end of British rule. Still, Sen – a tireless champion of the dispossessed – remains the fearless optimist, working now as ever to break down walls among warring ethnic groups. Both a book of penetrating ideas and people and places, Home in the World becomes a work of human empathy across distance and time, and of being at home in the world.
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