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人类对舒适的追求与人类物质文明的不断进步息息相关,某种意义上说,“人欲横流”正是物质文明发展达到一定阶段的必然反映。克罗累(J.E.Crowley)在《美国历史评论》1999年6月号上发表《感知舒适》一文,对近代欧美人追求物质享受的社会意义进行考察。 通过分析18世纪北美殖民地社会的物质文化和政治经济状况,克罗累提出了这样一个问题:人的物质享受欲到底有多自然?据他认为,18世纪北美人生活的舒适标准所以是一个历史问题,正由于他们与18世纪以后美国人和英国人的舒适标准是何等相似。他发现,物质享受——自我对身体与其贴近的物质环境的关系感到满足——是荚美文化的一个含有革新精神的方面。“舒适”(comfort)一词的含义
Human pursuit of comfort is closely linked to the continuous progress of human material civilization. In a sense, “people desire” is the inevitable reflection that the development of material civilization has reached a certain stage. J.E. Crowley, in “American Historical Review,” June 1999, published a book titled “Feeling Comfortable” to examine the social significance of modern European and American pursuit of material enjoyment. By analyzing the material culture and the political and economic conditions of North American colonial society in the 18th century, Kroli posed the question: How natural is man’s material enjoyment? In his opinion, the standard of comfort for the North American life of the 18th century is therefore a history The question arises precisely because of how similar they are to the comfort standards Americans and Britons after the 18th century. He found that the enjoyment of the material - satisfied by the relationship between the body and the physical environment in which it is close - is an innovative aspect of pod beauty. The meaning of the word comfort