《点燃理性的火焰》茨威格关注的欧洲，曾从科学进步速度惊人、对未来充满信心、富于启蒙精神的辉煌时期迅速转变为非理性和狂热的梦魇时期。我们今天又重蹈覆辙，不过，是在全球的尺度下。科学进步从未如今天般令人印象深刻，信息和知识从未如今天般唾手可得，独裁政权和专制政府力图愚弄人民从未如此困难，一个人的思想从未如此便捷地被全球的听众听到。

　　本书源于作者在21世纪的头20年对理性和启蒙的关切。在这20年里，宗教激进主义、伪科学、文化相对主义、后真理相对论、阴谋论和其他反科学的态度像野火一样在全世界蔓延。

　　本书对理想主义的表达非常清楚、具体、令人愉悦。克里斯特喜欢用例子（包括故事）来表达他的观点，他在本书的每一章中都很好地运用了这些例子。希望克里斯特的梦想——一个普遍宽容和尊重科学的真正开放的社会——能成为现实，至少在一定程度上通过他自己的贡献，尤其是这本令人惊叹、颇具个性的著作，把梦想变成现实。

　　作者简介

　　作者|克里斯特·斯图马克（Christer Sturmark）

　　瑞典作家。具有数学和计算机科学的背景，在1990年代，他是掌握信息技术的企业家，欧洲最大的互联网咨询公司之一的创始人。

　　英译者|侯世达（Douglas Hofstadter）

　　美国当代著名学者、认知科学家。所著《哥德尔、艾舍尔、巴赫——集异璧之大成》通过对哥德尔的数理逻辑、艾舍尔的版画和巴赫的音乐三者的综合阐述，探讨了人类思维的层次、规律与应用，因这本书横跨多个领域、内容深刻，被誉为心智议题跨学科第一奇书。

　　中译者|梅剑华

　　北京大学哲学博士、山西大学哲学学院教授、博士生导师。曾任首都师范大学哲学系主任，奥地利萨尔茨堡大学、美国匹兹堡大学、美国罗格斯大学等学校的访问学者。已出版专著《即物以穷理》《直觉与理由》。

Zweig's Europe was rapidly transformed from a glorious period of breathtaking scientific progress, confidence in the future, and enlightenment to a nightmare of irrationality and fanaticism. We are doing it again today, but on a global scale. Scientific progress has never been more impressive, information and knowledge has never been more readily available, it has never been more difficult for dictatorships and authoritarian governments to fool their people, and it has never been easier for one person's ideas to be heard by a global audience.

This book stems from the author's concern for reason and enlightenment in the first two decades of the 21st century. During these 20 years, religious radicalism, pseudoscience, cultural relativism, post-truth relativity, conspiracy theories, and other anti-science attitudes have spread like wildfire around the world.

The book's expression of idealism is clear, specific and pleasing. Crist likes to use examples (including stories) to make his points, and he uses them well in every chapter of the book. It is to be hoped that Crist's dream of a truly open society with universal tolerance and respect for science will become a reality, at least in part, through his own contributions, especially this amazing and personal book.

About the author

By | Christer Sturmark

Swedish writer. With a background in mathematics and computer science, in the 1990s he was an entrepreneur mastering information technology and the founder of one of the largest Internet consulting companies in Europe.

Translator | Douglas Hofstadter

He is a famous contemporary American scholar and cognitive scientist. Through the comprehensive elaboration of Godel's mathematical logic, Escher's prints and Bach's music, his book Godel, Escher and Bach explores the levels, rules and applications of human thinking. Because this book spans multiple fields and has profound content, it is known as the first interdisciplinary book on mental issues.

| Mei Jianhua

Doctor of Philosophy, Peking University, Professor and doctoral supervisor, School of Philosophy, Shanxi University. He was chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Capital Normal University and a visiting scholar at University of Salzburg, University of Pittsburgh, Rutgers University, etc. He has published his monographs "That is, the reason of things" and "Intuition and Reason".