这是许国璋同志1989年三月至五月间在北京外国语学院讲的“西方文化史选读”这一课程的引言部分,据录音整理后发表于此。他的目的只是说一说近年读书心得,与青年同志共勉。 This is an introductory part of the course entitled “Selected Readings of Western Cultural History,” which Comrade Xu Guozhang told the Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages ​​from March to May 1989, and is published here after finishing the recording. His purpose is only to talk about reading experience in recent years, with young comrades encourage each other.