波浪与石头:论现实的终极本质（格拉汉姆·哈曼） Waves and Stones

基本信息

by Graham Harman (Author)

Format:Hardback 416 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Allen Lane

ISBN:9780241392867

Published:6 Nov 2025

Weight:628g

Dimensions:240 x 162 (mm)

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书籍简介

世界上具影响力的哲学家之一，对我们现实概念的全新探索：我们如何理解世界以及我们在其中的位置？我们的人生是由少数几个戏剧性的转折点组成的，还是仅仅由从婴儿到老年的一系列渐进式变化组成？政治选举真的具有变革性，还是仅仅是文化时间线上不断变化的任意点？在物理学中，广义相对论的连续性如何与量子理论的非连续性共存？在《波与石》一书中，格雷厄姆·哈曼揭示了这种矛盾的相互作用——即现实究竟是由突如其来的跳跃构成，还是沿着平缓的梯度延伸，世界上各种事物之间没有明确的界限——渗透到人类生活的方方面面。更重要的是，这种悖论与人类思想本身一样古老。在探索连续与离散之间关系的过程中，他带领我们踏上了一场千变万化的旅程，从古希腊哲学家，到伟大的阿拉伯历史学家伊本·赫勒敦的著作，再到建筑学和进化论，宗教与科学的兼容性，以及物质的波粒二象性。

哈曼表明，探索连续与离散之间的关系，就是思考现实的本质。在这本令人眼花缭乱的新书中，他提出了一种思考这个古老问题的新方法，对我们理解自身以及我们所生活的这个错综复杂的世界有着深远的影响。

A new exploration of our conception of reality, by one of the world’s most influential philosophersHow do we understand the world and our place in it? Do our lives consist of a small number of dramatic turning points, or is there nothing but a series of gradual changes from infancy to old age? Are political elections genuinely transformational, or merely arbitrary points along a shifting cultural timeline? And in physics, how can the continuities of general relativity coexist with the discontinuities of quantum theory?In Waves and Stones, Graham Harman shows that this paradoxical interaction – the question of whether reality is made up of sudden jumps, or is laid out along a gentle gradient with no clear divisions between the various things in the world – permeates every area of human life. What’s more, this paradox is as old as human thought itself. In exploring how the continuous and discrete relate to each other, he takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey from the philosophers of ancient Greece, through the writings of the great Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, through architectural and evolutionary theory, the compatibility of religion with science, and the wave-particle duality of matter.

To explore the relationship between the continuous and the discrete, Harman shows, is to consider the very fabric of reality. With this dazzling new book, he proposes a new way of thinking about this ancient problem, with profound implications for our understanding of ourselves and the bewilderingly complex world in which we live.

作者简介

格雷厄姆·哈曼 (Graham Harman) 是南加州建筑学院的杰出哲学教授。

Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.