基本信息·出版社：Penguin Press HC, The ·页码：272 页 ·出版日期：2004年04月 ·ISBN：1594200114 ·条形码：9781594200113 ·版本：Hardcover ·装 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Penguin Press HC, The
·页码：272 页
·出版日期：2004年04月
·ISBN：1594200114
·条形码：9781594200113
·版本：Hardcover
·装帧：精装
·开本：20
·正文语种：英语
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From world-renowned psychologist and bestselling author of
The Soul's Code, a profound examination of the roots of man's primal love/hate relationship with war.
War is a timeless force in the human imagination-and, indeed, in daily life. If recent events have taught us anything, it is that peacetime is not nearly so constant and attainable as wartime. During the 5,600 years of recorded history, 14,600 wars have been fought-2 to 3 for every year of human history. War is a constant thing. And yet no one really understands why that is.
In
A Terrible Love of War, James Hillman, one of the central figures in psychology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, fills this great void and undertakes a groundbreaking examination of the origins, needs, and rewards of war. Moreover, in this brilliant inquiry, Hillman explores many other essential questions, such as:
€ Is war a necessary part of our human soul and, therefore, a necessary part of our lives?
€ Why do we need enemies?
€ What scars does warfare carve on the psyche of its soldiers? And why does it have such a permanent effect?
€ If war is such a "normal" part of our existence, why do we fear it so much? And alternately, how could we ever embrace a force so destructive, so wanton, and so inhuman?
€ Can the impulse to engage in war be tamed?
Hillman asserts that "if we want war's horror to be abated so that life may go on, it is necessary to understand and imagine."
A Terrible Love of War is a crucial tool to understanding war-a crucial book for us all.
作者简介 James Hillman has written more than twenty books, including
The Force of Character,
Re-Visioning Psychology (nominated for a Pulitzer in 1975), and
The Soul's Code, which debuted at #1 on the
New York Times bestseller list in 1996. He is an internationally renowned lecturer, teacher, and psychologist and has taught at Yale, Syracuse, and the University of Chicago.
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly Why do we love war? asks Jungian psychoanalyst Hillman, author of the bestselling The Soul's Code. One might ask in reply, Do we, in fact, love war? Hillman answers unequivocally in the affirmative, skewering modern pretension to prefer the Prince of Peace to the god of war. Mars is the central character in Hillman's exploration of war as an archetypal impulse. "The whole bloody business," he writes, "reveals a god, therewith placing war among the authentic phenomena of religion. And that is why it is so terrible, so loved, and so hard to understand." His portrayal of war as an implacable force, a primary element of the human condition, is unsettling, as is his description of war as a "beautiful horror"a
