赫尔穆特·舍克的经典著作《嫉妒与社会》以深刻锐利的笔触, 揭示了嫉妒这一普遍情感在人类社会中的运作机制、表现形态及其对个体行为与社会发展的复杂影响。本书突破了将嫉妒仅视为个人负面情绪的传统认知, 将其置于社会学、人类学、思想史与历史案例的多维框架中, 深入浅出地阐释了嫉妒的社会接近性、破坏性本质、永恒性等核心特征, 以及其与平等诉求、社会制度、文明进程之间的内在关联。舍克的核心贡献在于开创性地从社会理论视角系统剖析嫉妒的公共属性, 构建了一种将个体心理、群体行为与社会结构相贯通的独特分析框架, 极大地拓展了人们对这一日常情感的认知边界与社会意义的理解。

Helmut Schoeck' s seminal work Envy and Society employs a trenchant and penetrating analysis to uncover the operational mechanisms, diverse manifestations, and profound influence of envy—a universal human emotion—on both individual conduct and societal evolution. Moving beyond the conventional view of envy as a merely private and negative sentiment, the volume situates the emotion within a multidimensional framework encompassing sociology, anthropology, intellectual history, and historical case studies. It thereby provides a lucid explication of envy' s core attributes—including its social proximity, inherently destructive essence, and perennial nature—and its intrinsic linkages to egalitarian aspirations, social institutions, and civilizational processes. Schoeck' s cardinal contribution resides in his pioneering and systematic examination of envy as a public phenomenon from a social-theoretical standpoint, thereby constructing a distinctive analytical framework that interconnects individual psychology, collective behavior, and social structure. This framework significantly expands the conceptual boundaries and enriches our understanding of the social import of this quotidian yet potent emotion.