Jackson Lears is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University and Editor in Chief of Raritan: A Quarterly Review. He is the author of No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is also the author of Something for Nothing: Luck in America and of Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920. Among other topics, he has written on cultural hegemony in the American Historical Review, on modern art and advertising in American Quarterly, and on memory and power in the Journal of American History; he has also co-edited two collections of essays, The Culture of Consumption and The Power of Culture. Lears has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Winterthur Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He received the Public Humanities Award (for “making ideas current”) from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and in 2009 was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a regular contributor to The New Republic, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is now at work on a book to be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, with the working title The Wild Card: Animal Spirits and American Modernity.

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为生命而艺术：美国文化中的工艺和对整体性的追求

杰克逊·李尔斯 (Jackson Lears) 是罗格斯大学 (Rutgers University) 历史学杰出教授和 Raritan: A Quarterly Review 的主编。他是《No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920》的作者，该书获得了国家图书评论界奖的提名，以及《富足寓言：美国广告文化史》获得洛杉矶奖。洛杉矶时报图书奖。他还是《一事无成：美国的运气》和《一个国家的重生：现代美国的形成，1877-1920》的作者。除其他主题外，他还撰写了《美国历史评论》中关于文化霸权的文章，《美国季刊》中关于现代艺术和广告的文章，以及《美国历史杂志》中关于记忆和权力的文章；他还共同编辑了两本论文集，消费文化和文化的力量。Lears 曾获得伍德罗威尔逊国际学者中心、古根海姆基金会、洛克菲勒基金会、美国学术协会理事会、国家人文基金会、温特图尔博物馆、史密森学会、普林斯顿谢尔比卡洛姆戴维斯中心的奖学金大学和弗吉尼亚大学文化高级研究所。He received the Public Humanities Award (for “making ideas current”) from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and in 2009 was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 他一直是《新共和国》、《国家》、《洛杉矶时报》、《伦敦书评》和《纽约书评》等出版物的定期撰稿人。