休闲的理想和现实的反思

20世纪末以来,随着社会生产力的巨大发展和物质财富的极大丰富,人类对自然界的改变将逐渐转变为对人类自身的改变,人类自我实现的需求较以往任何时期更为迫切。“休闲”,这个古老而又现代的命题再次成为理论界关注的热点。2000年8月,云南人民出版社推出《休闲研究丛书》,介绍美国学者的休闲理论。其中由托马斯·古德尔和杰弗瑞·戈比著,成素梅等翻译的《人类思想史中的休闲》一书颇为引人注目。     

The Invisible Dance: The Supreme Court and the Press

Abstract

In America, Tocqueville writes, men were born equal; they did not have to become so.¹ But he is not unaware of the radical democratic character of the American revolution of which Gordon Wood has reminded us.² Prior to 1776, Tocqueville observes, the democratic principle was “far from dominating the government of society.” It was the Revolution that made it “the law of laws.” “The war was fought and victory obtained in its name” (1:1, ch. 4. 59).