弗里德里希·希尔教授的《欧洲思想史》有几个难得的特点:(一)在通常的西方哲学史著作中,我们所接触到的,往往只是知识界少数思想家的思想。希尔教授却时刻注意到各历史时期中民间的思潮,它们与“上层文化”既是对立的,又是互相连接的。 There are several rare characteristics of Professor Friedrich Hirsch’s “History of European Ideas”: (a) Of the usual writings of Western philosophy, we come into contact with, often, only the thoughts of a few intellectual thinkers. Professor Hill has always noticed the popular thoughts in historical periods. They are both opposite and connected to the “upper-class culture.”