出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
出版年: 2020-11-24
ISBN: 9780374154110
页数: 128
装帧: Hardcover
定价: $24.00
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The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats―and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves.
The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza...
The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats―and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves.
The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world.
In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaigne's house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for "fearless joy"; and Colette's Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story "The Cat", a parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy.
Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.
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John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including The Silence of Animals, The Immortalization Commission, Black Mass, and Straw Dogs. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He now writ...
John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including The Silence of Animals, The Immortalization Commission, Black Mass, and Straw Dogs. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full-time.
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TEN FELINE HINTS ON HOW TO LIVE WELL
猫比人更幸福的原因?——读《猫的哲学:猫与生命的意义》
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格雷(John Gray),作家,教授,曾任教于牛津大学、哈佛大学和耶鲁大学;他撰写的《猫的哲学:猫与生命的意义》出版于疫情期间(2020年底),迄今已经有好几个中译本。 格雷与猫相伴将近三十年,他的家里一共有四只猫,其中两只是缅甸猫,另外两只是伯曼猫——在致谢部分,格... (展开)牛津教授的“人不如猫”暴论
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先来想象一个场景:你每天早出晚归,为了KPI、房贷拼命内耗,为了“人活着到底为什么”失眠到凌晨三点,而你的猫呢?它什么都不用干,就是懒洋洋地在那舔舔爪子,睡睡懒觉,就好像已经获得了全世界的幸福。那种心满意足的状态,可能是我们花一辈子力气都达不到的。猫就好像压根... (展开)做你觉得最有趣的事,你就会幸福得对幸福一无所知
向猫学习如何幸福的生活
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我们学哲学是为了什么,我相信很多人是和我一样,想在哲学当中学会如何幸福的生活,掌握生活的方法。 我比较信奉的是弗洛姆,卢梭和基拉尔的理论。而本书的作者,信奉的是猫。他相信猫就是我们最好的学习对象,学习猫的生活。就能让我们通达幸福的生活,所以这本书就叫猫的哲学... (展开)论坛 · · · · · ·
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0 有用 momo 2026-02-23 17:00:21 新疆
I only read the introduction and the last ten devices for the words in this book are too difficult for me :(
0 有用 Brina 2023-12-08 23:46:36 重庆
有猫的故事我还是喜欢的,哲学部分有的还凑合。就是很多哲学观点一起讲,我就觉得太无聊了。 哲学家都是一天到晚没事干吧,有时间琢磨这些看似有用又没用的东西。
0 有用 阿丽惬 2026-01-20 14:57:25 美国
Cats can be our teachers, for they do not miss the lives they have not lived.
1 有用 NovemberRain 2024-01-30 21:46:51 北京
用猫做引子如宗教传道一般夹带了太多私货,就显得太心灵鸡汤了。简而言之就是一句话“傻子不悲伤”。
1 有用 salt 2022-07-23 15:24:46
向猫猫学习🫡 Too many philosophers, not enough cats.