Animals in Translation

出版者:Tantor Media

作者:Temple Grandin

页数:0

出版时间:2005-1-1

价格:USD 37.99

装帧:Audio CD

isbn号码:9781400101467

图书标签:英文版美国有声书

How is Animals in Translation different from every other animal book ever published?Animals in Translation is like no other animal book because of Temple Grandin. As an animal scientist and a person with autism, her professional training and personal history have created a perspective like no other thinker in the field, and this is her exciting, groundbreaking view of the intersection of autism and animal. Unlike other well-known writers in the field of animal behavior -- When Elephants Weep by psychoanalyst Jeffrey Moussaleff Masson, How Dogs Think by psychologist and dog trainer Stanley Coren, and The Hidden Life of Dogs by anthropologist Elizabeth Marsha Thomas -- Temple Grandin is an animal scientist who has devoted the last 30 years of her life to the study of animals. Animals in Translation is the culmination of that life's work -- a book whose sweep is huge, including just about anything that gallops, trots, slithers, walks, or flies. Temple Grandin is like no other author on the subject of animals because of her training and because of her autism; understanding animals is in her blood and her bones. Animals in Translation ... * redefines consciousness and argues that language is not a requirement for consciousness * categorizes autism as a way station on the road from animals to humans * explores the "Interpreter" in the normal human brain that filters out detail, creating an unintentional blindness that animals and autistics do not suffer from * applies the autism theory of "hyper-specificity' to animals, meaning that there is no forest, only trees, trees, and more trees * argues that the single worst thing you cando to an animal is make it feel afraid * examines how humans and animals use their emotions, including to predict the future * compares animals to autistic savants, in fact declaring that animals may be autistic savants, with special forms of genius that normal people cannot see * explains that most animals have "super-human" skills: animals have animal genius * reveals the abilities handicapped people, and animals, have that normal people don't

读后感

Temple Gradin以自身经验和研究，说明自闭症患者的图像思维方式和非人动物相近。在Sax的《火星上的人类学家》一书中，那位"无法理解人类，却对其他动物感同身受的"火星上的人类学家"指的就是他。有的人认为，"人道屠宰"或"动物福利"科学，仍是人类中心主义宰制动物的一种变相方...  

这本书是在之前去图书馆的时候在自然科学书架里面看到的，想看这本书的第一原因是被书名吸引了。因为近来读国外书多一点，就留神注意了一下原书名，发现中文的书名不仅是意译，而且翻译得还很偏，英文标题是这样的“ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION”-直译应该是“翻译动物”或者更贴切...  

我觉得，通篇这本书就是一个问题，除了我们自以为正常的方式，是否还存在其它方式感知这个世界。 如果我没有搞错，这本书是一个自闭症者写的，再经一个自闭症者或深入体验自闭症的人文字润色。大概因此，行文有着有点特殊的逻辑、节奏和直截了当。很让我觉得尴尬的是，作者是个...  

各位看完本书后，如果对作者格兰丁感兴趣，可以看看《火星上的人类学家》这本书。（新浪爱问上有TXT下载）书的第一章就是写她的，篇幅不长，可以看做是一篇小传吧。书里从一个心理学家的角度描述了她--一个自闭症患者和正常人是多么的不同。 在常人眼里格兰丁举止怪异...  

早阵子有流浪猫惨遭虐杀，爱护动物团体发起反虐杀游行，未几，又有人将已怀孕的野生赤麂，以铁铲活活打死，上周被重判入狱半年。 对于这种凶徒，我们很可能想到「没人性」、「禽兽」、「畜牲」等说法，吊诡的是，这类狠话恰恰把动物视作低人一等的卑贱之物。 我想起今届高考中...