极北：文化史[有声读物]

学者和门外汉长期以来都在把他们的幻想投射到广阔的全球北方，无论它是一片冰冻的无人地带，一个掠夺维京人的冰冷王国，还是一个史前人类生活的未受破坏的摇篮。伯恩德·布伦纳（Bernd Brunner）重建了探险家、殖民者和土著社区的遭遇，创造了一个北方“奇迹内阁”，使斯堪的纳维亚半岛、冰岛和北极充满了永恒的神秘感。就像启发了从瓦格纳到托尔金的每个人的神话传说一样，极北探索了斯堪的纳维亚峡湾的戏剧性前景和痴迷于北欧白人的西方心灵的黑暗深处。
在简洁但深入研究的章节中，布伦纳重点介绍了正在发挥作用的文化和政治小说，从北方风景和故事的首次“发现”，到“北欧”表型的优生主义提升（这反过来影响了美国对移民的限制），到斯堪的纳维亚社会民主作为后种族乌托邦的理想化。布伦纳追溯了将“雅利安种族”与高纬度地区联系起来的疯狂纳粹哲学如何影响了全世界种族和文化优越性的现代伪科学幻想。
Extreme North: A Cultural History [Audiobook]
Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man’s-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of adventurers, colonists, and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern “cabinet of wonders” and imbued Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Arctic with a perennial mystique. Like the mythological sagas that inspired everyone from Wagner to Tolkien, Extreme North explores both the dramatic vistas of the Scandinavian fjords and the murky depths of a Western psyche obsessed with Nordic whiteness.
In concise but thoroughly researched chapters, Brunner highlights the cultural and political fictions at play from the first “discoveries” of northern landscapes and stories, to the eugenicist elevation of the “Nordic” phenotype (which in turn influenced America’s limits on immigration), to the idealization of Scandinavian social democracy as a post-racial utopia. Brunner traces how crackpot Nazi philosophies that tied the “Aryan race” to the upper latitudes have influenced modern pseudoscientific fantasies of racial and cultural superiority the world over.

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