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本书由作者的博士论文改写而成,研究了纬书政治神话的贡献、天人学说成为政治神话的过程、政治神话与中国文化各种形态之间的关系等学术问题。
In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, acclaimedauthor Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate ourrelationship with the star that gives us life. Whether floating ina skiff on the Ganges as the Sun descends behind the funeral pyresof Varanasi, interviewing psychologists in the Norwegian Arcticabout the effects of darkness, or watching tomato seedlings insouthern Spain being hair-brushed (the better to catch the Sun’srays), Cohen tirelessly pursues his quarry. Drawing on more than seven years of research, he reports fromlocations in eighteen different countries, including theNovolazarevskaya science station in Antarctica (the coldest placeon Earth); the Arizona desert (the sunniest); the Pope’sobservatory-cum-fortress outside Rome (possible the leastaccessible); and the crest of Mount Fuji, where—entirely alone—hewelcomes the sunrise on the longest day of the year. As he soon discovers, the Sun is present everywhere—in mythology,language, religion, sciences, art, literature
英译序言:“可以毫不夸张地说,这本书开始和结束的部分都指出了政治学问的用途、重要性甚至必要性。阿威罗伊一次次指出这门实践学问在“这些城邦”里非但不能被天启律法取代,而且同等必要。有多必要?从某种角度来说是这本书中一个更大的课题。这些城邦越是意识不到自己有病,就越说明了它们病得有多严重。而今我们迫于各种需要,急于炫耀我们自以为拥有的一切,在这样一个时代里,阿威罗伊这部节制的作品显得更加奇怪。”