玛丽亚·波波娃：穿越 Traversal

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Publication date ‏ : ‎ 16 Mar. 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 624 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374616418

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374616410

Item weight ‏ : ‎ 454 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.38 x 4.45 x 23.62 cm

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书籍简介

在玛丽亚·波波娃令人震撼又感人至深的新作《穿越》中，她跨越了生与死、偶然与选择、化学与意识之间的界限：是什么使身体成为人？是什么使行星成为世界？我们如何守护对真理的热爱，使其免受对权力的贪婪侵蚀？什么能抚慰我们的渴望，什么能弥补我们的损失？波波娃通过那些被历史铭记或被历史边缘化的先驱者们交织的生命、爱情和遗产，阐明了我们思考这些问题的各种工具——我们的望远镜和论文、我们的假设和诗歌。这些人生于时代边缘，却用生命书写未来：玛丽·雪莱、沃尔特·惠特曼、弗雷德里克·道格拉斯、范妮·赖特、多萝西·克劳福特·霍奇金、玛丽·萨普、阿尔弗雷德·瓦格纳、汉弗莱·戴维、露丝·本尼迪克特和​​玛格丽特·米德。贯穿他们故事的还有其他线索——世界上全球科学合作、爱尔兰马铃薯饥荒、胰岛素分子破译、自行车的发明、自然界如何创造蓝色——随着故事的推进，这些线索交织成一幅更加丰富、更加清晰的意义画卷，汇聚到生命本质的终极问题：是什么让生命鲜活，值得活下去？《穿越》一书时而恢弘壮阔，时而细腻入微，既关注将原子束缚成分子的物理定律，也关注将我们彼此联系在一起的心理力量，探索细胞与灵魂之间的宇宙，以一种令人惊艳的全新视角揭示世界和我们的人生。

In Traversal, her startling and moving new book, Maria Popova traverses the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry and consciousness: What makes a body a person? What makes a planet a world? How do we safeguard our love of truth from our lust for power? What slakes our longings and what redeems our losses? Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with these questions―our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems―through the intertwined lives, loves, and legacies of visionaries both celebrated and sidelined by history, people born into the margins of their time and place who lived to write the future: Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Fanny Wright, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Marie Tharp, Alfred Wagener, Humphry Davy, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Woven throughout their stories are other threads―the world's first global scientific collaboration, the Irish potato famine, the decoding of the insulin molecule, the invention of the bicycle, how nature creates blue―to make the tapestry of meaning more elaborate yet more clarifying as the book advances, converging on the ultimate question of what makes life alive and worth living. By turns epic and intimate―as concerned with the physical laws binding atoms into molecules as with the psychic forces binding us to each other―Traversal explores the universe between cells and souls to reveal the world, and our lives, in a dazzling new light.

作者简介

玛丽亚·波波娃是《边缘人》（The Marginalian）的创始人，这是一个涵盖广泛、探索意义的记录项目，创立于2006年，并被美国国会图书馆永久数字档案馆收录。她的著作和项目包括《图解》（Figuring）、《鸟类年鉴：不确定时代的100种占卜》（An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days）和《诗歌中的宇宙》（The Universe in Verse）。

Maria Popova is the creator of The Marginalian--a wide-ranging record of the search for meaning, founded in 2006 and included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. Her books and projects include Figuring, An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days, and The Universe in Verse.