论扯淡：二十周年纪念版On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition (Anniversary)Harry G Frankfurt

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Book Details

ISBN-13: 9780691276786

ISBN-10: 0691276781

Author: Harry G. Frankfurt

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Imprint: Princeton University Press

Format: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 96

Release Date: 31 October 2025

Weight: 120g

Dimensions: 17mm x 207mm x 108mm

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书籍简介

我们这个世界显著的特征之一就是充斥着大量的谎言。然而，我们对谎言究竟是什么、它与谎言有何区别、它服务于什么目的以及它的意义却知之甚少。哈里·法兰克福是世界上具影响力的道德哲学家之一，在他的畅销书《论谎言》（该书曾被《每日秀》和《60分钟》节目报道）中，他探讨了我们政治和世界面临的严峻的问题之一。在这部二十周年纪念版中，法兰克福在后记中强调“对真相漠不关心极其危险”。

法兰克福以其特有的哲学敏锐性、心理洞察力和辛辣的幽默，指出“胡说八道者”并非像说谎者那样故意捏造事实，而是试图向受众塑造某种形象，而根本不在乎任何事物的真假。他们悄然改变了对话的规则，使得真假之争变得无关紧要。虽然胡说八道有时看似无害，但过度沉溺其中最终会削弱说谎者说真话的能力，而谎言则不会。说谎者至少承认真相的重要性。正因如此，弗兰克福特说，“胡说八道比谎言更能危害真相。”

《论胡说八道》一书见解深刻，极具先见之明，篇幅虽短，却深刻揭示了我们这个时代的诸多问题。

One of the most prominent features of our world is that there is so much bullshit. Yet we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, how it’s different from lying, what purposes it serves, and what it means. In his acclaimed bestseller On Bullshit, which was featured on The Daily Show and 60 Minutes, Harry Frankfurt, who was one of the world’s most influential moral philosophers, explores one of the most serious problems of our politics and our world. This twentieth anniversary edition features a postscript in which Frankfurt emphasises that ‘indifference to the truth is extremely dangerous.’

With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humour, Frankfurt argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do that is, by deliberately making false claims about what’s true. Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Although bullshit can take innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the bullshitter’s capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying doesn’t. Liars at least acknowledge that the truth matters. Because of this, Frankfurt says, ‘bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.’

Remarkably prescient and insightful, On Bullshit is a small book that explains a great deal about our time.

作者简介

哈里·G·弗兰克福特（1929-2023）是世界上具影响力的道德哲学家之一，也是普林斯顿大学的荣誉哲学教授。他的著作包括《论不平等》、《爱的理由》和《魔鬼、梦想家和疯子》。

Harry G. Frankfurt (1929-2023) was one of the world’s most influential moral philosophers and a professor of philosophy emeritus at Princeton University. His books included On Inequality, The Reasons of Love, and Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen.