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Arguably
Christopher Hitchens · 初版 2011 年
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近四十年来,Christopher Hitchens 一直用他拿捏得当的精准文笔告诉我们,当我们探寻基本原则——那些界定并奠定我们文明基石的理性、宽容与怀疑原则——时,我们所面对的是什么;这些原则若想历久弥新,就必须由每一代人重新去捍卫。在这本 Arguably 中,他邀请读者参与一场民主式的对话,去投入其中、以理服人。敏锐、生动且不拘一格的 Hitchens,为当代散文家树立了罕有其匹的标杆。在这本不可多得的
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- 卡尔·波普尔(Karl Popper)的《开放社会及其敌人》(The Open Society and Its Enemies)- 彼得·辛格(Peter Singer)的《伦理生活指南》(Writings on an Ethical Life)- 侯世达(Douglas R. Hofstadter)的《哥德尔、艾舍尔、巴赫:集异璧之大成》(Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid)- 克里斯托弗·希钦斯(Christopher Hitchens)的《人之常情》(Arguably: Essays)
- The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper - Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter - Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
……说得非常在理。我不知道在博客领域取得成功会不会带来满足感,我其实更期待出现一种新的网络载体,能够承载长篇形式的精髓,就像希钦斯的《无可辩驳》、阿米斯的《爱因斯坦的怪物》这类书,或者特德·姜、朱利安·巴恩斯的短篇小说所做的那样。在手机上无休止地下刷(doom scrolling)一篇文章会把思绪搅成一团浆糊,而电子阅读器又不太对我的胃口。我真正想写的文字,源自……
…is very accurate. I don't know that winning at blogging would be satisfying, and I'm sort of holding out for a new online form that captures the good parts of the long format that books like Hitchens' "Arguably," Amis' "Einstein's Monsters," and short stories like Ted Chiang or Julian Barnes did. Doom scrolling an essay muddles the ideas, and e-readers don't do it for me. The things I'd like to write are from…
给感兴趣的人提一句,克里斯托弗·希钦斯写过一篇评博尔赫斯的极妙散文。最近被收录进了他的文集《无可辩驳》中重印。
For any who care, Christopher Hitchens had a delightful essay on Borges. It was reprinted recently in his collection "Arguably".
克里斯托弗·希钦斯的《无可辩驳:杂文集》,同作者的《致反对者的信》,以及伯特兰·罗素的《不可思议的论说》/《非流行抑郁文集》。
"Arguably Essays" by Christopher Hitchens "Letters to a Young Contrarian" by the same. and "Unpopular Essays" by Bertrand Russell.