☆铁道、火车、城市、时间、空间……一次19世纪人类精神与工业文明交织的探索旅程。 ☆城市规划、心理学、建筑学、经济学等诸多视角，探索人类工业意识之起源。 --------------------------- 工业文明给人类的生产生活带来哪些变化，人们又是如何在这其中 适应了工业革命带来的新规则、新秩序？ 《铁道之旅》通过工业革命的代表之一—铁路——其创制、发展对于人类生活、生产方式的影响，试图重新思考工业文明如何发生于个体，而不仅仅只是简单的生产力、社会结构变化。 铁路出行给人们对于时间、速度、距离、危险、精神伤痛等方面的变化，以及对于城市—历史关系、事故、防御性措施等等方面的重新思考，试图去阐述，工业文明不仅在技术、建筑、生产生活方式带来改变，更重要的是，人们在这些变化其中，也发展出更多的设备、条例、思维去适应由工业革命带来的新规则、新秩序。 由此，工业化不仅是一场技术、生产方式的变革，也是人们精神与身体、行动与思维对新秩序、新制度的一次适应过程。 ----------------------------- 希弗尔布施是一位非常了不起的文化历史学家。 ——Los Angeles Times Book Review 这是一本令人惊叹的书，惊喜、独具探索性、奇特充斥着这本铁道革命精神病理学分析的著作。 ——The Village Voice 沃尔夫冈从城市规划、心理学、建筑学、经济学以及技术史等角度深入阐述了铁路在19世纪对人们心灵形塑的重要作用。 ——Gregory McNamee 《铁道之旅》充满了令人信服的见解，其论述、观点与我们当下的生活状态密切相连。这本书涉略范围极广，已成为交通研究的经典作品，同时被社会学、现代性文化研究、感知研究广泛征引，成为这些领域进一步研究的奠基之作。二次修订相信会使得本书更令人信服。 ——Javier Caletrío

The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city. Belonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.