Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573–1912. By Sarah Thal. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 409. ISBN 0-226-79421-0.
Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573–1912. By Sarah Thal. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 409. ISBN 0-226-79421-0.
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重新排列诸神的景观：日本朝圣地的政治，1573-1912 年，萨拉·塔尔 (Sarah Thal)，芝加哥和伦敦：芝加哥大学出版社，2005 年。第 409 页。ISBN 0-226-79421-0。
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2006
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一些专家称沃尔特·本雅明1,000多页的巨著《拱廊计划》是20世纪理解“历史”的最伟大的努力之一。有些人甚至称这本厚厚的托姆是所有研究中最伟大的努力，它研究的是2,500年世界发展史上最基本的观念之一：一种源于对有限的人类和无限的时间之间的关系如何支配人类生活的认识的观念。在过去的三个世纪里，这种看法对塑造世界现实产生了极大的影响。受到各种来源的启发，特别是马塞尔·普鲁斯特和马丁·海德格尔，鲁道夫·姆拉泽克做了类似于本杰明的事情。Mrázek是一位现代东南亚历史专家，出生于捷克共和国，现在是美国居民，在他的最新著作中实现了这一点，目前正在翻译成印度尼西亚语，幸福土地的工程师：殖民地的技术和民族主义。拱廊街项目挖掘了一些碎片，“重建”了消失的19世纪巴黎--当时的世界之都--在这样做的过程中，提供了梦的碎片，它对一个大陆，一个时代的解释。Mrázek考察了荷兰殖民统治结束时的印度尼西亚，并从中提供了一个令人兴奋的选择，在研究国家，身份和文化在二十世纪。如果拱廊计划-破坏，因为它是由第二次世界大战-出现更像是一个巨大的蒙太奇或评论的一些书比一整本书本身，工程师的快乐土地是一本书，有足够的时间成为一个很好的组成，结构和写作形式，似乎深思熟虑。Mrázek将本书分为六个大章节。第一个，题为“沥青的语言”是关于移动和扩展，移动和速度的技术。它以一个关于1891年2月13日出发的Siak探险的故事开始。这一章呈现了人们与田园诗般的和神话般的自然分离的各种全景;从赤脚在泥里踩出脚印，到脚向前走，轮子在沥青和铁轨上旋转。踩在泥里的脚也许真的融入了大自然的怀抱。但第二批脚，与裸露的大地分离，不再直接接触，最终激励人们解放自己。
Some experts call Walter Benjamin’s 1,000-plus page magnum opus The Arcades Project2 quite simply one of the greatest twentieth-century efforts to comprehend “History”. Some even call this thick tome the greatest endeavour of all studies of one of the most fundamental perceptions in 2,500 years of world development: a perception arising from an awareness of the way the relationship between limited humanity and unlimited time dictates human life. This perception has become extremely influential in shaping world reality over the past three centuries. Inspired by various sources, particularly Marcel Proust and Martin Heidegger, Rudolf Mrázek does something similar to Benjamin. Mrázek, an expert on modern Southeast Asian history born in the Czech Republic and now a resident of the USA, achieves this in his latest book, currently being translated into Indonesian, Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony.The Arcades Project excavated bits of debris and “re-built” vanished nineteenth-century Paris–then a world capital–and in so doing, offered fragments of dreams with its interpretations of a continent, an era. Mrázek examines Indonesia at the end of Dutch colonial rule, and from this offers an exciting alternative in studying nation, identity and culture in the twentieth century. If The Arcades Project–sabotaged as it was by World War II–appeared more like a vast montage or commentary on a number of books than a whole book in itself, Engineers of Happy Land is a book that had enough time to become a fine composition, with a structure and a form of writing that appear deeply considered. Mrázek organizes the book into six large chapters. The first, entitled “Language as Asphalt” is about the technology of moving and expansion, movement and speed. It opens with a story about the Siak expedition which set out on 13 February 1891. The chapter presents various panorama of the separation of people from idyllic and mythical nature; from the bare treading feet making footprints in the mud, to the feet marching forward and the wheels spinning on asphalt and rails. The feet squishing in the mud were perhaps indeed melting into the lap of nature. But the second lot of feet, separated from and no longer in direct contact with the bare earth, were the ones that eventually motivated people to liberate themselves.