THE BLACK MIRROR: 35 MEDITATIONS ON MORTALITY
Book ID/图书代码： 00970014B74716
English Summary/英文概要： A personal meditation on death by one of our leading thinkers and writers, who has been described as ’One of Britain’s greatest intellectual all-rounders... Someone who comes closer than most ever will to knowing everything’ (Independent).
Covering such topics as the impossibility of contemplating death, the failing mind and being
remembered and being mourned, The Black Mirror is a bold and original book that confronts
the reality of dying.
Raymond Tallis says: ‘Given that death is nothing in itself – from which it follows that there is
nothing to be said about it – the book will be in the main about the life that is lost when we
die. Hence the title: death is ‘a black mirror’ making life more visible. It is a sketch of an
obituary for human life.’
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 对于死亡的个人冥想，来自一名思想先驱与一流作家，被称为英国历史上最伟大的智者之一。。。。。。如果你比绝大多数人更近一步，那么你便能够掌握一切真理。（独立报）
《黑镜》中涵盖了以下主题：不可沉思的死亡，无能为力的思想，被缅怀以及哀悼，这部大胆的原创书籍直面了死亡的现实。雷蒙德•塔利斯称：“因为死亡本身毫无意义----死亡的产生之地使得他毫无讨论的价值--因此本书将主要关于我们死后所错失的生活。也因此诞生了本书的书名：死亡是一面黑镜，让我们的生活更加明晰。这是一本有关于人类生命的讣告初样。”(DC)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 雷蒙德•塔利斯于2006年前曾任曼彻斯特大学的一名老年医学教授。他是一名诗人、小说家、哲学家，曾被《经济学人》评选为2009年度的20名博学者之一，2007年被《独立报》评选为50名“英国智者”之一，2005年，《展望》杂志称其为英国一流公众学者。作者近期作品包括：Hippocratic Oaths (2004), The Kingdom of Infinite Space (2008)以及 Michelangelo’s Finger (2010)。
Raymond Tallis was Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester until 2006. A poet, novelist and philosopher, he was listed by the Economist in 2009 as one of twenty living polymaths, by the Independent in 2007 as one of fifty ’Brains of Britain’ and in 2005, Prospect magazine named him as one of Britain’s leading Public Intellectuals. His most recent books include Hippocratic Oaths (2004), The Kingdom of Infinite Space (2008) and Michelangelo’s Finger (2010).
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