Alain de Botton is the author of nonfiction works on subjects ranging from love and travel to architecture and philosophy. His best-selling books include How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Art of Travel and The Architecture of Happiness. He lives in London, where he founded The School of Life (www.theschooloflife.com) and Living Architecture (www.living-architecture.co.uk).
The news is everywhere. We can’t stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds?
We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton (author of the best-selling The Architecture of Happiness), but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives. In his dazzling new book, de Botton takes twenty-five archetypal news stories—including an airplane crash, a murder, a celebrity interview and a political scandal—and submits them to unusually intense analysis with a view to helping us navigate our news-soaked age. He raises such questions as Why are disaster stories often so uplifting? What makes the love lives of celebrities so interesting? Why do we enjoy watching politicians being brought down? Why are upheavals in far-off lands often so boring?
In The News: A User’s Manual, de Botton has written the ultimate guide for our frenzied era, certain to bring calm, understanding and a measure of sanity to our daily (perhaps even hourly) interactions with the news machine.
發表於2024-06-02
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網上試讀之後覺得被一些字句震到瞭,第一次在豆瓣上花瞭九塊九買瞭電子版,等到後來我看完這本書的動力就是我本來可以買兩瓶寶礦力的九塊九毛錢。 在德波頓的世界裏,理想中的新聞是無所不能的,現實中的新聞是韆瘡百孔的。書中建立的這個烏托邦,有瞭新聞就不需要老師,隻...
評分新聞烏托邦 ——讀阿蘭.德波頓《新聞的騷動》 在《新聞的騷動》一書中, 英倫纔子阿蘭.德波頓幾乎將新聞及其製造者媒體描繪成瞭一個巫婆。膚淺、狹促, 充滿偏見和庸見, 關注黑暗,擴大恐懼,焦慮,缺乏正能量……身負挖掘事實真相,進行輿論監督,維護社會公平正義重任,被...
評分“教堂尖頂那朵無人問津的浮雲,拿著注射器溫柔貼近病人胳膊的醫生,灌木籬笆下的肥胖田鼠,敲打白煮蛋殼的孩子和一旁滿眼慈愛的母親,膽大心細巡視海岸的核潛艇,研製齣首個新型引擎樣本的工廠,以及雖百般挑釁卻仍能保持剋製和寬容的伴侶。”——這些日常生活中較為正常、...
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雖然隻看最後一章就可以,但還是五分。。。
評分很傳統的人文視角,某種程度上也可以理解為歐洲許知遠的眼光。我承認作者的很多看法,新聞並沒有改變我們世界觀裏的冷漠和狹隘。但或許我們的人性就是如此冷漠而狹隘。
評分I had a really hard time getting into the book. 真的讀不進去,放飛自己吧。讀不完隻能算沒緣分
評分Not inspiring.
評分感覺看個新聞好纍
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